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Vol. 28 No. 8   ·   20 April 2006

If you’d seen his green eyes

Hilary Mantel: The People’s Robespierre

  • Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr

Letters

Alan Dershowitz, Frank Solomon, Caroline and Nathan Finkelstein, Yair Evron, Robert Pfaltzgraff, Marion Woolfson, Renee Slater, Jeremy Schreiber, John Gretton, Tom Wengraf, Joseph Palley, Michael Grenfell, Yitzhak Laor, Kenneth Cuno, Eric Hobsbawm, Justin Smith, Jeremy Harding, Elliott Mills, Madeleine St John, Daniel Schiller, Amy Beckett, Anne Hollander

John Bossy: The Death of Girolamo Savonarola

  • Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines  Buy this book
  • The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope by Desmond Seward  Buy this book

Thomas Lynch: MacSwiggan’s Ashes

  • Committed to the Cleansing Flame: The Development of Cremation in 19th-Century England by Brian Parsons  Buy this book

Steven Shapin: A Wakefull and Civill Drink

  • The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffee House by Brian Cowan  Buy this book
  • Coffee House: A Cultural History by Markman Ellis  Buy this book

Robert Crawford

Ingathering

Ilan Pappe on the Israeli election and the ‘demographic problem’

Bruce Robbins on Pierre Bourdieu

  • Science of Science and Reflexivity by Pierre Bourdieu, translated by Richard Nice  Buy this book

Robert VanderMolen

Jacqueline Rose: On Being Nadine Gordimer

  • Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: An X-Rated Version of Postman Pat

Land of Pure Delight

Dinah Birch: Anglicising the Holy Land

  • The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism by Eitan Bar-Yosef  Buy this book

At the V&A and Tate Modern

Peter Campbell on Modernist Design

Andrew Bacevich: America’s Forgotten General

  • Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism by Jack McCallum  Buy this book

Amit Chaudhuri: Tagore’s Modernism

  • Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri  Buy this book

Snarly Glitters

August Kleinzahler on Roy Fisher

  • The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 by Roy Fisher  Buy this book

Daniel Soar: The Photographic Novel

  • Patrick’s Alphabet by Michael Symmons Roberts

Emilie Bickerton on the films of Chris Marker

Sherry Turkle: Tamagotchi Love

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Baguettes on pale green background

Featured articles

If you’d seen his green eyes
Hilary Mantel: The People’s Robespierre

Ingathering
Ilan Pappe on the Israeli election and the ‘demographic problem’

Land of Pure Delight
Dinah Birch: Anglicising the Holy Land

Snarly Glitters
August Kleinzahler on Roy Fisher

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: An X-Rated Version of Postman Pat

At the V&A and Tate Modern
Peter Campbell on Modernist Design