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Contents

Vol. 28 No. 21   ·   2 November 2006

Even Now

Neal Ascherson: The Silence of Günter Grass

  • Beim Häuten der Zwiebel by Günter Grass

Letters

Roger Owen, James Francke, Tony Judt, Malcolm Deas, A.C. Grayling, Mary Evans, Michael Steinberg, Christopher Hampton, James Carmichael, Anna Smith, Helen Deutsch, Michael Rosen, Richard Morris, Sara Haslam, Michael Gilsenan, Colin Burrow

Liars, Hypocrites and Crybabies

David Runciman: Blair v. Brown

Stefan Collini: How to Get on in the Literary World

  • Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 by Philip Waller

At Dulwich Picture Gallery

Peter Campbell on Adam Elsheimer

James Wood: St Aubyn’s Savage Sentences

  • Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn

Jamie McKendrick

Colin Burrow: M.J. Hyland’s Creepy Adolescents

The Least Accountable Regime in the Middle East

Ed Harriman: On the Take in Iraq, Part 3

    Short Cuts

    John Sturrock: John Reid tries to out-Blunkett Blunkett

    Henry Day: Up Country with Xenophon

    • The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand by Robin Lane Fox  Buy this book
    • The Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon, translated by Robin Waterfield  Buy this book
    • Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield  Buy this book
    • The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination by Tim Rood

    Hugo Williams

    Jonathan Lear: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Virtues

    Stephen Sedley: The Governor Eyre Affair

    • A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law by R.W. Kostal  Buy this book

    Anthony Pagden: Spain v. England

    Daniel Heller-Roazen: The Story of Yiddish

    • Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750 edited by Jerold Frakes  Buy this book
    • Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature by Jean Baumgarten, edited and translated by Jerold Frakes  Buy this book
    • The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture by David Fishman  Buy this book
    • Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture by Jeffrey Shandler  Buy this book

    Diary

    John Lanchester: Blogswarms

    Contributors

    LRB cover artwork: Dominos

    Featured articles

    The Least Accountable Regime in the Middle East
    Ed Harriman: On the Take in Iraq, Part 3

    Diary
    John Lanchester: Blogswarms

    Even Now
    Neal Ascherson: The Silence of Günter Grass

    Liars, Hypocrites and Crybabies
    David Runciman: Blair v. Brown

    At Dulwich Picture Gallery
    Peter Campbell on Adam Elsheimer

    Short Cuts
    John Sturrock: John Reid tries to out-Blunkett Blunkett