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Contents

Vol. 28 No. 14   ·   20 July 2006

Anne Hollander: Wild Lee Miller

  • Lee Miller by Carolyn Burke

Letters

Paul Seabright, John Lanchester, Colin Matthews, Tony Wood, Iain Boal, Bill Grantham, Eleanor Allen

Stalking Out

David Edgar: After John Osborne

  • John Osborne: A Patriot for Us by John Heilpern

Jenny Diski on the myth of Samson

  • Lion’s Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman

Ilan Pappe: Indefinite detentions in Israel

The Habit of War

Jeremy Harding on Eritrea

  • I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
  • Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at War edited by Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Martin Plaut
  • Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa edited by Robert Rotberg

Philippe Sands on international law

  • The Limits of International Law by Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner
  • War Law: International Law and Armed Conflict by Michael Byers

Chalmers Johnson: US intelligence and the bomb

  • Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea by Jeffrey Richelson

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Blurbs and puffs

Boutique Faith

Jeremy Waldron: Against Free Speech

  • Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition by John Durham Peters

John Mullan on Defoe

  • The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography by John Richetti
  • A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens

At the Movies

Michael Wood sees a new print of Hitchcock’s Rebecca

  • Rebecca directed by Alfred Hitchcock (re-release, 2006)

J. Hoberman: Sitting for Warhol

  • Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Vol. I by Callie Angell

Amanda Claybaugh: Realism v. Naturalism

  • Frank Norris: A Life by Joseph McElrath and Jesse Crisler

Peter Campbell: Kandinsky

Eleanor Birne on Julie Myerson’s hauntings

  • The Story of You by Julie Myerson

John Lanchester: Among the Balls

Contributors

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Featured articles

Stalking Out
David Edgar: After John Osborne

The Habit of War
Jeremy Harding on Eritrea

Boutique Faith
Jeremy Waldron: Against Free Speech

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Blurbs and puffs

At the Movies
Michael Wood sees a new print of Hitchcock’s Rebecca