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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 5 · 8 March 2007
Neal Hodge, William Lamont, John Hyman, Gerald Carpenter, D.E. Steward, Marcia Pointon, Tim Allen, John Moisson, Barrie Lees, Tom O’Hagan
Mahmood Mamdani: Iraq and Darfur
Peter Campbell on Turner's Rigi watercolours
Bruce Ackerman: What to do about the Lords
Deborah Friedell: American Girls
Jeremy Harding: The Coming Megaslums
Uri Avnery: What is to be done?
John Pemble on the Victorians
- Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders
Barry Schwartz on affluence and wellbeing
- The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950 by Avner Offer Buy this book
Peter Barham on Foucault's History of Madness
Frank Kermode on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Thomas Jones on Jim Crace
J. Robert Lennon on the Sweet'N Low dynasty
Julie Elkner on everyday life in Stalinist Russia
Roxanne Varzi: At the Martyrs’ Museum
Contributors
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author, most recently, of Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism.
Uri Avnery is a former member of the Knesset and a leader of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc.
Peter Barham’s most recent book, Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War, is out in paperback from Yale.
Alan Bennett’s play Enjoy, first seen in 1980, opens at the Gielgud Theatre at the end of this month.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Julie Elkner lectures in Russian history at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Deborah Friedell is an editor at the London Review.
Jorie Graham’s new collection, Sea Change, will be out in the spring.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
J. Robert Lennon is the author of a story collection and five novels, including Happyland and Mailman.
Mahmood Mamdani, the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror, is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the departments of anthropology, political science and international affairs at Columbia.
Ruth Padel, whose most recent book is Darwin: A Life in Poems, is resident poet at Somerset House.
John Pemble is a senior research fellow at the University of Bristol and the author of Shakespeare Goes to Paris.
Barry Schwartz is a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and the author of The Paradox of Choice and The Costs of Living.
Roxanne Varzi is the author of Warring Souls: Media, Martyrdom and Youth in Post-Revolution Iran. She teaches anthropology and film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine.
