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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 3 · 9 February 2006
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
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
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
Bruce Ackerman on Samuel Alito and the Supreme Court
Colin Burrow on Anthony Burgess
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
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
James Lasdun’s Salad Days
Contributors
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author, most recently, of Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism.
Malcolm Bull is the head of art history and theory at the Ruskin in Oxford. His books include Seeing Things Hidden: Apocalypse, Vision and Totality.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Frank Close, who teaches at Exeter College, Oxford, is the author of The Void.
John Demos is the author of several books about colonial America, and is completing a study of witch-hunts. He teaches at Yale.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
Solomon Feferman is a professor of mathematics and philosophy at Stanford, and one of the editors of Kurt Gödel’s Collected Works. Alfred Tarski, written with Anita Burdman Feferman, came out in 2004.
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. His most recent book is Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Richard Fortey is a research scientist at the Natural History Museum and visiting professor of palaeobiology at Oxford. The Earth: An Intimate History was shortlisted for the Aventis science writing prize 2005.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
James Lasdun’s novel, The Horned Man, appeared in 2002. His most recent book of poetry is Landscape with Chainsaw.
Edwin Morgan’s most recent book is Tales from Baron Munchausen (Mariscat). The Play of Gilgamesh is due from Carcanet this year.
Mark Rudman’s last collection was Sundays on the Phone; he is working on a new one, to be called On the Firing Line.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Jeremy Treglown’s books include Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green, which won the Dictionary of Literary Biography Award.