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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 15 · 3 August 2006
Penny Larsgaard, John Heilpern, David A. Bell, Penny McCarthy, Tony Simpson,Stewart Buchanan, Ian Hennessey, Roger Fieldhouse, Margaret Withers, Phil Gyford, Jay Shir, Andy Armstrong
Mark Mazower: Greece and Turkey’s Population Exchange
- Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey by Bruce Clark
Adam Shatz: Israel’s Revolutionary Left
- On the Border by Michel Warschawski, translated by Levi Laub Buy this book
Amit Chaudhuri: My Bombay
- Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta Buy this book
David Runciman: Winners Do Drugs
- Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, Balco and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
J. Robert Lennon: The Drug-Bust that Wasn’t
- Tulia: Race, Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee
Jeremy Harding on Spook Fiction
Neal Ascherson: Imre Kertész
- Fateless by Imre Kertész, translated by Tim Wilkinson Buy this book
- Liquidation by Imre Kertész, translated by Tim Wilkinson Buy this book
Peter Campbell on the Portraits of Angus McBean
Adam Phillips: Empson’s War on God
- Selected Letters of William Empson edited by John Haffenden Buy this book
Eamon Duffy: Lancelot Andrewes
- Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures edited by Peter McCullough Buy this book
E.S. Turner: Modes of Comeuppance
- Rural Reflections: A Brief History of Traps, Trapmakers and Gamekeeping in Britain by Stuart Haddon-Riddoch Buy this book
Matthew Reynolds: Douglas Coupland’s ‘JPod’
William Wootten: Low-Pressure Poetry
Kathleen Jamie: High and Dry
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of Black Sea, among other books. He reported on Georgia in the LRB of 4 March 2004.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Eamon Duffy is president of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570 is out from Yale.
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.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
Elias Khoury is director and editor-in-chief of the culture supplement of the Beirut daily An-Nahar. His most recently translated novel is Gate of the Sun. His piece in this issue was translated by Peter Clark.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
J. Robert Lennon is the author of a story collection and five novels, including Happyland and Mailman.
Karim Makdisi teaches at the American University of Beirut.
Mark Mazower is completing a book on the Nazi New Order. He teaches history at Columbia University in New York.
Adam Phillips’s On Kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is out in January.
Matthew Reynolds’s last book was The Realms of Verse; he is now reading a lot of literary translations.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Political Hypocrisy and co-author of Representation, published by Polity Press.
Rasha Salti, a curator and freelance writer, lives in New York and Beirut.
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
Matthew Sweeney’s most recent collection is Black Moon.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
William Wootten sells books, when not reviewing them.