Vol. 31 No. 2 · 29 January 2009

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Peter Campbell

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Vol. 31 No. 2 · 29 January 2009

Henry Siegman

Israel’s Lies

Letters

Clifton Hawkins, Tom Nagel, Michael Holroyd, Tom Stoppard, Patrick Marmion, Chris Horner, Keith Flett, Keith Gessen, Lynn McDonald, Clancy Sigal, Tom Chatfield, Nicholas Pole

Responses to the War in Gaza

Tariq Ali, David Bromwich, Alastair Crooke, Conor Gearty, Eric Hobsbawm, R.W. Johnson, Rashid Khalidi, Yitzhak Laor, John Mearsheimer, Yonatan Mendel, Ilan Pappe, Gabriel Piterberg, Jacqueline Rose, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Wood

David Runciman

Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens by Josiah Ober

Glen Newey

Death by a Thousand Cuts by Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon and Gregory Blue
Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris
Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law by Philippe Sands

Colm Tóibín

Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham

Simon Blackburn

Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-51 edited by Brian McGuinness

Thomas Jones

Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated by Harry Watson

John Lanchester

Short Cuts: the demise of Woolworths

Christopher Tayler

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
The Gorse Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton

Peter Campbell

At the Natural History Museum: Darwin as Deity

Michael Newton

Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by Cheeta

Eamon Duffy

Flesh Made Word: Saints’ Stories and the Western Imagination by Aviad Kleinberg, translated by Jane Marie Todd

David Harsent

Poem: ‘The Garden Goddess’

Paul Myerscough

Diary: Confessions of a Poker Player

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