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Vol. 30 No. 12 · 19 June 2008
James Davidson
The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato’s Myth by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated by Janet Lloyd. Exeter, 192 pp., £35, November 2007, 978 0 85989 805 8
Letters
Verena Mayer and Roland Koberg, Pete Ayrton, Sven Anderson, Richard Davenport-Hines, Slavoj Žižek, Inigo Thomas, Laura Mansnerus, Richard Pevear, Garth Clarke, W.S. Milne, DeAnn DeLuna
Patrick Cockburn
Iran v. America
Norman Dombey
At Al Kibar
Terry Eagleton
Theodor Adorno: One Last Genius by Detlev Claussen. Harvard, 440 pp., £22.95, May 2008, 978 0 674 02618 6
Uri Avnery
Olmert and Friends
Keith Gessen
Alfred Kazin: A Biography by Richard Cook. Yale, 452 pp., £25, March 2008, 978 0 300 11505 5
Peter Campbell
At the Door: Open Sesame!
Eyal Press
The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America from the Right by Paul Krugman. Allen Lane, 296 pp., £20, March 2008, 978 1 84614 107 2
Bill Manhire
Three Poems
Iain Sinclair
The Olympics Scam
Charles Simic
Poem: ‘In the Afternoon’
Jean Sprackland
Poem: ‘The Source’
John Lanchester
Short Cuts: Who’s Afraid of the Library of America?
Colin Burrow
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham by Blair Worden. Oxford, 458 pp., December 2007, 978 0 19 923081 5
Sam Thompson
The Butt by Will Self. Bloomsbury, 355 pp., £14.99, April 2008, 978 0 7475 9175 7
Adam Phillips
Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa Diamond. Harvard, 333 pp., £18.95, March 2008, 978 0 674 02624 7
Bee Wilson
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale. Bloomsbury, 334 pp., £14.99, April 2008, 978 0 7475 8215 1
Tim Crane
In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars edited by Kevin Scharp and Robert Brandom. Harvard, 491 pp., £29.95, May 2007, 978 0 674 02498 4 Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images by Jay Rosenberg. Oxford, 320 pp., £45, September 2007, 978 0 19 921455 6
Matthew Sweeney
Two Poems
Thomas Jones
Diary: The Last Days of eBay
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