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Contents

Vol. 29 No. 7   ·   5 April 2007

My Darlings

Colm Tóibín: Drinking with Samuel Beckett

Letters

Gérard Prunier, Matthew Moore, Sean Coleman, Jannie Armstrong, David Rubenstein, Charlie Beckett, Howard Millbank, Eric Metcalfe, Richard Tagart, Axel Harvey, Jack Harris

Bernard Porter: How bad was Stanley?

  • Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal  Buy this book

Maya Jasanoff: Governing Iraq

  • Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart

James Buchan: The Scottish Enlightenment

  • The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in 18th-Century Britain, Ireland and America by Richard Sher  Buy this book

Self-Made Man

Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Edith Wharton’s Domestic Arrangements

Susan Eilenberg: Being Lord Byron

Neil Rollinson

Fredric Jameson: Japan-ness

  • Japan-ness in Architecture by Arata Isozaki, translated by Sabu Kohso  Buy this book

Short Cuts

John Lanchester: Climate Change

Peter Campbell on Ove Arup

  • Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the 20th Century by Peter Jones  Buy this book

Charles Reeve on Clement Greenberg

  • Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg by Alice Goldfarb Marquis  Buy this book

The Political Economy of Carbon Trading

Donald MacKenzie: A Ratchet

At the British Museum

Peter Campbell: John White’s New World

Norman Dombey: America’s Poodle

  • The Future of the UK’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: The White Paper, Cm. 6994  Buy this book
  • The Future of the UK’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: The White Paper. Ninth Report, House of Commons Defence Committee, HC 225-I  Buy this book

Neal Ascherson: Scotophobia

Contributors

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Featured articles

My Darlings
Colm Tóibín: Drinking with Samuel Beckett

Self-Made Man
Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Edith Wharton’s Domestic Arrangements

The Political Economy of Carbon Trading
Donald MacKenzie: A Ratchet

Short Cuts
John Lanchester: Climate Change

At the British Museum
Peter Campbell: John White’s New World