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Contents

Vol. 29 No. 6   ·   22 March 2007

Warmer, Warmer

John Lanchester: Global Warming, Global Hot Air

  • The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock  Buy this book
  • Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot
  • The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg  Buy this book
  • The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review by Nicholas Stern  Buy this book

Letters

Sindre Bangstad, Martin Shaw, Jonathan Harris, Marina Warner, Hermione Lee, Bernard O’Donoghue, Paul Mountain

Seriously Uncool

Jenny Diski: Susan Sontag

The Right Kind of Pain

Mark Greif: The Velvet Underground

At the Movies

Michael Wood: The Lives of Others

Barbara Everett: The Late Plays

Defeatism, Defeatism, Defeatism

Ross McKibbin: Ten Years of Blair

Short Cuts

John Sturrock: Don't Bother to Read

Mark Mazower on the UN

  • The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American Power by James Traub  Buy this book
  • The Parliament of Man: The United Nations and the Quest for World Government by Paul Kennedy

Colin Kidd on Alexis de Tocqueville

  • Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution by Hugh Brogan  Buy this book

David Trotter: The Novel

  • The Novel: Vol. I: History, Geography and Culture edited by Franco Moretti  Buy this book
  • The Novel: Vol. II: Forms and Themes edited by Franco Moretti

Joanna Biggs: Two Caravans

Peter Campbell: Alvar Aalto

Sam Thompson on Iain Banks

R.T. Naylor on smuggling

  • Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy by Moisés Naím  Buy this book

Matthew Sweeney

Michael Byers: The Arctic Grail

Bernard O’Donoghue

Tony Wood on Chechnya

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Blocks of crayon colour

Featured articles

Warmer, Warmer
John Lanchester: Global Warming, Global Hot Air

Seriously Uncool
Jenny Diski: Susan Sontag

The Right Kind of Pain
Mark Greif: The Velvet Underground

Defeatism, Defeatism, Defeatism
Ross McKibbin: Ten Years of Blair

At the Movies
Michael Wood: The Lives of Others

Short Cuts
John Sturrock: Don't Bother to Read