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Contents

Vol. 28 No. 7   ·   6 April 2006

Thomas Laqueur buries the 20th century

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Letters

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

Nobody has to be vile

Slavoj Žižek: The Philanthropic Enemy

Imagined Soil

Neal Ascherson: The German War on Nature

Paul Ginsborg on the Italian Election

At the Movies

Michael Wood on L’Enfant

  • L’Enfant directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne (2005)
  • Caché directed by Michael Haneke (2005)

Flinch Wince Jerk Shirk

Frank Kermode on Christine Brooke-Rose

Eleanor Birne on Jane Harris

  • The Observations by Jane Harris

Anne Hollander: Women in White

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones speculates on Ian Blair and the IPCC

Frances Richard on 20th-Century Art

Andrew Saint on the Spread of Suburbia

Peter Campbell on Michaelangelo’s Drawings

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi

Robert Irwin on Wilfred Thesiger

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Nicholas Guyatt: Simon Schama’s Chauvinism

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Diary

Patrick Cockburn: The End of Iraq

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Coffee pot

Featured articles

Nobody has to be vile
Slavoj Žižek: The Philanthropic Enemy

Imagined Soil
Neal Ascherson: The German War on Nature

Flinch Wince Jerk Shirk
Frank Kermode on Christine Brooke-Rose

Diary
Patrick Cockburn: The End of Iraq

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones speculates on Ian Blair and the IPCC

At the Movies
Michael Wood on L’Enfant