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Contents

Vol. 28 No. 3   ·   9 February 2006

Ultimate Choice

Malcolm Bull: Thoughts of Genocide

  • The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael Mann  Buy this book
  • Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Vol. I: The Meaning of Genocide by Mark Levene  Buy this book
  • Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: Vol. II: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide by Mark Levene  Buy this book

Letters

John Lanchester, Nicholas Cocks, Randy Cohen, Jonathan Carter, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Bruce Cumings, Adrian Glossop, John Leath

Stephen Sedley: The Case for the Regicides

  • The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson  Buy this book

John Sturrock on Jules Vallès

  • The Child by Jules Vallès, translated by Douglas Parmée  Buy this book

Gorilla with Mobile Phone

Theo Tait on Michel Houellebecq

  • Houellebecq non autorisé: enquête sur un phénomène by Denis Demonpion
  • The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Gavin Bowd  Buy this book

John Demos: Chief Much Business

Eric Foner: Were the Indians robbed?

  • How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Stuart Banner

The Stealth Revolution, Continued

Bruce Ackerman on Samuel Alito and the Supreme Court

Not Quite Nasty

Colin Burrow on Anthony Burgess

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones unpacks the shipping container

Jeremy Treglown on Olivia Manning

  • Olivia Manning: A Life by Neville Braybrooke and June Braybrooke  Buy this book

Jenny Diski: The Afterlife of Captain Scott

  • Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy in the Extreme South by David Crane  Buy this book

In Paris

Peter Campbell: ‘The Delirious Museum’

Frank Close: Co-operative Atoms

  • A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert Laughlin  Buy this book

Solomon Feferman: Can mathematics describe the world?

  • Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel by Rebecca Goldstein  Buy this book

Richard Fortey: The Beginnings of Geology

Diary

James Lasdun’s Salad Days

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Girl in red coat on station platform

Featured articles

Ultimate Choice
Malcolm Bull: Thoughts of Genocide

Gorilla with Mobile Phone
Theo Tait on Michel Houellebecq

The Stealth Revolution, Continued
Bruce Ackerman on Samuel Alito and the Supreme Court

Not Quite Nasty
Colin Burrow on Anthony Burgess

Diary
James Lasdun’s Salad Days

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones unpacks the shipping container

In Paris
Peter Campbell: ‘The Delirious Museum’