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Contents

Vol. 28 No. 15   ·   3 August 2006

Letters

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

Siege Notes

Rasha Salti

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

Matthew Sweeney

The View from Malabar Hill

Amit Chaudhuri: My Bombay

August Kleinzahler

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

Short Cuts

Jeremy Harding on Spook Fiction

Neal Ascherson: Imre Kertész

At the National Portrait Gallery

Peter Campbell on the Portraits of Angus McBean

No reason for not asking

Adam Phillips: Empson’s War on God

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’

  • JPod by Douglas Coupland

William Wootten: Low-Pressure Poetry

Kathleen Jamie: High and Dry

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Parched landscape

Featured articles

Do I see or do I remember?
Elias Khoury

Siege Notes
Rasha Salti

How the War Will End
Karim Makdisi

The View from Malabar Hill
Amit Chaudhuri: My Bombay

No reason for not asking
Adam Phillips: Empson’s War on God

Short Cuts
Jeremy Harding on Spook Fiction

At the National Portrait Gallery
Peter Campbell on the Portraits of Angus McBean