James Buchan

James Buchan, a former Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times, studied Persian literature in Isfahan in the 1970s.

In the LRB Archive:

• Death to Potatoes!: Sarah Palin in Tehran · 17 March 2011

  • The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel
  • The Ayatollahs’ Democracy: An Iranian Challenge by Hooman Majd

• That sh—te Creech: The Scottish Enlightenment · 5 April 2007

  • The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in 18th-Century Britain, Ireland and America by Richard Sher

• Nostalgia for the Vestry: Thatcherism · 30 November 2006

  • Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts by Simon Jenkins

• My Hogs: Gloucester Old Spots · 18 October 2001

• 11 September · 4 October 2001

• Only a Hop and a Skip to Money: gold · 16 November 2000

  • The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter Bernstein

• Still Smoking: An Iranian Revolutionary · 15 October 1998

  • An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati by Ali Rahnema

• A Matter of War and Peace · 31 July 1997

• Presto! · 14 December 1995

  • The Life of Adam Smith by Ian Simpson Ross

• The First Hundred Years · 24 August 1995

  • John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier by Andrew Lownie

• Fie On’t! · 23 March 1995

  • The Oxford Book of Money edited by Kevin Jackson

• Bangs and Stinks · 22 December 1994

  • Test of Greatness: Britain’s Struggle for the Atom Bomb by Brian Cathcart

• They called her Lady Di · 18 August 1994

  • Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism and Non-Violence by Petra Kelly

• The End · 28 April 1994

  • The City of London. Vol. I: A World of Its Own, 1815-1890 by David Kynaston

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