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Contents

Vol. 25 No. 8   ·   17 April 2003

Journey to Arezzo

Nicholas Penny: The Apotheosis of Piero

  • Piero della Francesca by Roberto Longhi, translated by David Tabbat

Letters

Barbara Low, Ken Coates, Hal Foster, Christian McEwen, J. Elfenbein, Phil Poole, Keith Flett

Michael Wood on Italo Calvino

  • Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino  Buy this book

Charles Glass reports from Lake Dokan

Watching the War on al-Jazeera

Hugh Miles: Look both ways

Is it still yesterday?

Hilary Mantel: Children of the Revolution

  • The Lost King of France by Deborah Cadbury

David Coward on Alexandre Dumas

  • Viva Garibaldi! Une Odyssée en 1860 by Alexandre Dumas

Jeremy Adler on Georg Trakl

  • Poems and Prose by Georg Trakl, translated by Alexander Stillmark

Short Cuts

John Sturrock on Bullshit

Barry Schwabsky: Who is Menzel?

  • Menzel’s Realism: Art and Embodiment in 19th-Century Berlin by Michael Fried

Thomas Jones on Haruki Murakami

  • After the Quake by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin
  • Earthshaking Science: What We Know (and Don’t Know) about Earthquakes by Susan Elizabeth Hough

James Wood on Graham Swift

  • The Light of Day by Graham Swift

Gillian Darley on Lutyens

  • The Architect and His Wife: A Life of Edwin Lutyens by Jane Ridley
  • Edwin Lutyens, Country Houses: From the Archives of ‘Country Life’ by Gavin Stamp
  • Lutyens Abroad edited by Andrew Hopkins and Gavin Stamp

Anthony Pagden: Was there a Spanish Empire?

  • Spain’s Road to Empire: The Making of a World 1492-1763 by Henry Kamen

Simon Schaffer on the Lunar Men

  • The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future by Jenny Uglow

E.S. Turner: Kiss me, Eric

  • Dean Farrar and ‘Eric’: A Study of ‘Eric, or Little by Little’, together with the Complete Text of the Book by Ian Anstruther

At the V&A

Peter Campbell on Art Deco

The Academy of Lagado

Edward Said: The US Administration’s misguided war

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: armchair and potplant

Featured articles

The Academy of Lagado
Edward Said: The US Administration’s misguided war

Journey to Arezzo
Nicholas Penny: The Apotheosis of Piero

Watching the War on al-Jazeera
Hugh Miles: Look both ways

Is it still yesterday?
Hilary Mantel: Children of the Revolution

Short Cuts
John Sturrock on Bullshit

At the V&A
Peter Campbell on Art Deco