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Contents

Vol. 29 No. 11   ·   7 June 2007

Lectures about Heaven

Thomas Laqueur: Forgiving Germany

Letters

Jonathan Prentice and Scott Malcolmson, K. Vela Velupillai, Brian Lynch, Hamish Ford, George Adams, Martin Sanderson, Derek Robinson, Raymond Aronson, Helen Wright, Richard Tewkesbury, Ken Cooke

John Pemble: Literary Tourists

Tinkering

Mark Greif on Walt Disney

  • Walt Disney: The Biography by Neal Gabler  Buy this book
  • The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney by Michael Barrier  Buy this book
  • Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson by Tom Sito  Buy this book

Nicholas Penny on Robert Hughes

At the National Gallery

Peter Campbell: Hands and Feet

Dan Jacobson: Rudyard Kipling and Cecil Rhodes

David Edgar on the Sixties

  • White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook  Buy this book
  • Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook  Buy this book

Short Cuts

Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Gordon Brown

Jenny Turner: Eat the Document

Boudoir Politics

Bee Wilson on Lola Montez

John Hartley Williams

David Carpenter: Impostors

  • The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the British Nation by Ian Mortimer  Buy this book

Elizabeth Lowry on Primo Levi

  • A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi, translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli  Buy this book

Joe Perkins on globalisation

  • Making Globalisation Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice by Joseph Stiglitz  Buy this book
  • The Next Great Globalisation: How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their Financial Systems to Get Rich by Frederic Mishkin  Buy this book
  • The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly  Buy this book

Stephen Sedley: Judge Dredd

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Caterpillars and beetles on leaves

Featured articles

Lectures about Heaven
Thomas Laqueur: Forgiving Germany

Tinkering
Mark Greif on Walt Disney

Boudoir Politics
Bee Wilson on Lola Montez

Short Cuts
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Gordon Brown