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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 9 · 6 May 2004
Ilan Pappe: Israel heads for disaster
Peter Hallward, Jacqueline Rose, Lauro Martines, Yisrael Medad, Peter Connolly, Vincent Deary, Bernard Bergonzi, Murray Biggs, Harvey Dickson, Jeremy Bernstein
Stephen Holmes on US policy in Iraq
- Incoherent Empire by Michael Mann
Jeremy Harding on the poetry of George Oppen
- New Collected Poems by George Oppen, edited by Michael Davidson
Peter Campbell on Islamic art
Sheila Fitzpatrick reads the diary of a Soviet schoolgirl
- The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl 1932-37 by Nina Lugovskaya, translated by Joanne Turnbull
Barbara Taylor on a history of masturbation
Jeremy Harding considers France’s role in Rwanda
Thomas Jones on Alan Hollinghurst
Michael Byers: Blair and Bush reach for an international law for crusaders and conquistadors
Paul Foot on the not-so-great Reform Act
R.W. Johnson on Britain and South Africa since the Boer War
- The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War by Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw
Ian Sansom destroys John Fowles’s diary
- John Fowles: The Journals, Vol. I edited by Charles Drazin
- John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds by Eileen Warburton
M.J. Hyland remembers her criminal father
Contributors
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Sheila Fitzpatrick teaches at the University of Chicago. She is the editor (with Stuart Macintyre) of Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian History and Politics.
Paul Foot died in July 2004. He wrote 60 pieces for the LRB – on subjects including Leon Britain, the Birmingham Six, MI5, Tiny Rowland, Neil Hamilton, Gordon Brown and (often) Shelley.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Stephen Holmes teaches at New York University School of Law. His most recent book is The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror.
M.J. Hyland used to be a lawyer. Her first novel, How the Light Gets In, will be published by Canongate later this month. She lives in Melbourne.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Ilan Pappe teaches in the political science department at Haifa University and is the chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Israel.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Barbara Taylor teaches history at the University of East London. Women, Gender and Enlightenment (edited with Sarah Knott) will appear in paperback in May.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
