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Contents

Vol. 24 No. 10   ·   23 May 2002

Are we in a war? Do we have an enemy?

Slavoj Žižek: Love Thy Neighbour

Letters

Danny Karlin, Bernard Porter, Eric James Jupitus, Jeremy Bernstein, Kaori Miyamoto, Elizabeth Robinson, Azriel Genack, Rita Giacaman, Nick Moore, Michael West, George Watson, Marc Haefele, Alex Finlayson

Every Single Document

Inga Clendinnen on Raul Hilberg’s Sources of Holocaust Research

  • Sources of Holocaust Research: An Analysis by Raul Hilberg
  • Neighbours: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan Gross

Frank Kermode

Adam Kuper

  • Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life by Stanley Tambiah
  • The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. I: Anthropology and Society by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw
  • The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. II: Culture and Human Nature by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw

In Brighton

Peter Campbell: free associating on stucco

Danny Karlin: Browning and His Readers

  • The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning, edited by Richard Altick and Thomas Collins
  • The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Vol. VIII: The Ring and the Book, Books V-VIII edited by Stefan Hawlin and Tim Burnett

Jason Burke

Penelope Fitzgerald on Charlotte Mew

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: The Size of Wales

James Francken

  • On the Yard by Malcolm Braly

A Bit of a Lush

Christopher Tayler on William Boyd

  • Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Jenny Diski

  • Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fictions by Philip Larkin, edited by James Booth

Robert VanderMolen

Clive James: Witty Words in Pretty Mouths

  • Fast-Talking Dames by Maria DiBattista

Richard Fortey

  • Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant by Richard Stone

Richard Popkin: Adventures of a Messiah

  • The Lost Messiah: In Search of Sabbatai Sevi by John Freely

Michael Redhead

  • Three Roads to Quantum Gravity: A New Understanding of Space, Time and the Universe by Lee Smolin

Benjamin Markovits

Contributors

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Featured articles

Are we in a war? Do we have an enemy?
Slavoj Žižek: Love Thy Neighbour

Every Single Document
Inga Clendinnen on Raul Hilberg’s Sources of Holocaust Research

A Bit of a Lush
Christopher Tayler on William Boyd

In Brighton
Peter Campbell: free associating on stucco

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: The Size of Wales