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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 11 · 7 June 2007
Thomas Laqueur: Forgiving Germany
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
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
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
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Gordon Brown
Jenny Turner: Eat the Document
Bee Wilson on Lola Montez
- Lola Montez: Her Life and Conquests by James Morton Buy this book
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- A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi, translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli Buy this book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
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
David Carpenter is a professor of medieval history at King’s College London and director of the King Henry III Fine Rolls Project. His most recent book is The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284, a volume in the New Penguin History of Britain.
David Edgar is currently adapting Julian Barnes’s Arthur and George for the stage and writing a new play for Out of Joint.
Jorie Graham’s new collection, Sea Change, will be out in the spring.
Mark Greif is co-editor of the magazine n+1.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, will be published by Quercus in July.
John Pemble is a senior research fellow at the University of Bristol and the author of Shakespeare Goes to Paris.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Joe Perkins is a fellow in economics at All Souls College, Oxford.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
Jenny Turner’s novel The Brainstorm is out now in paperback.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s books include The Controversy of Zion, The Strange Death of Tory England and, most recently, Yo, Blair!
John Hartley Williams’s most recent collection is The Ship. A new volume of poems will appear in the spring.
Bee Wilson is the author of Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee.