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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 7 · 6 April 2006
Thomas Laqueur buries the 20th century
- Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism by István Rév Buy this book
Adam Glantz, Michael Szanto, Daniel Pipes, Jeffrey Herf and Andrei Markovits, Michael Taylor, Chris Oakley, Christopher Hitchens, Basil Morley, Toby Shelley, James Mishalani, Lesley Marshall, Evan Riley, James Hannah, Adrian Bowyer
Slavoj Žižek: The Philanthropic Enemy
Neal Ascherson: The German War on Nature
Paul Ginsborg on the Italian Election
Michael Wood on L’Enfant
- L’Enfant directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne (2005)
- Caché directed by Michael Haneke (2005)
Frank Kermode on Christine Brooke-Rose
Eleanor Birne on Jane Harris
- The Observations by Jane Harris
Anne Hollander: Women in White
Thomas Jones speculates on Ian Blair and the IPCC
Frances Richard on 20th-Century Art
- Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Buy this book
Andrew Saint on the Spread of Suburbia
Peter Campbell on Michaelangelo’s Drawings
Robert Irwin on Wilfred Thesiger
- Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland
Nicholas Guyatt: Simon Schama’s Chauvinism
Patrick Cockburn: The End of Iraq
Contributors
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi is a Sudanese poet, who has published three collections to date.
Neal Ascherson’s latest book is Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He was the Observer correspondent in Bonn from 1963 to 1968.
Eleanor Birne lives in London.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent at the Independent. His pieces for the London Review and the Independent won this year’s Orwell Prize for Journalism.
Paul Ginsborg teaches contemporary history at the University of Florence. An updated edition of Berlusconi, Television, Power and Patrimony was published last October. His latest book is The Politics of Everyday Life.
Nicholas Guyatt, until recently an associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, is moving to the University of York next month. Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World appeared earlier this year.
Anne Hollander wrote the text for Woman in the Mirror, Richard Avedon’s last collection of photographs. She is now at work on a study of literary clothing.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
R.F. Langley’s Collected Poems came out from Carcanet in 2000 and a later collection, The Face of It, also from Carcanet, in 2007. Shearsman Books published his prose Journals in 2006.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Frances Richard is a contributing editor at the art and culture magazine Cabinet and a founding editor of Fence magazine. She teaches at Barnard College in New York.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London.
Michael Wood’s books include America in the Movies, The Magician’s Doubts, The Road to Delphi and, most recently, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. He teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.
