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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 14 · 20 July 2006
Anne Hollander: Wild Lee Miller
- Lee Miller by Carolyn Burke
Paul Seabright, John Lanchester, Colin Matthews, Tony Wood, Iain Boal, Bill Grantham, Eleanor Allen
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
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
Thomas Jones: Blurbs and puffs
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
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
Eleanor Birne lives in London.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Amanda Claybaugh teaches in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia.
Jenny Diski’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
David Edgar’s plays include The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Playing with Fire and, most recently, Testing the Echo. He is working on a book about playwriting.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
J. Hoberman is the author of The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the 1960s.
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.
Chalmers Johnson was a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the CIA from 1967 to 1972. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, is out this month.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.
Ilan Pappe is chair of the history department at the University of Exeter and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine came out in 2007.
Philippe Sands is a professor of law at University College London, a barrister at Matrix Chambers and the author of Lawless World.
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University Law School, is the author of Law and Disagreement and God, Locke and Equality.
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.