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Contents

Vol. 29 No. 16   ·   16 August 2007

Not Like the Rest of Us

Linda Colley: The Clinton Succession

  • A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein  Buy this book
  • Hillary Clinton: Her Way: The Biography by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta  Buy this book

Letters

Rod Edmond, Gabriel Egan, Chimen Abramsky, Norman Zide, Shashi Tharoor, Christine Lindey, Peter Burgess, Arthur Searle, David Whalin, Archie Burnett

The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam

Henry Siegman: There Is No Peace Process

Shtum

John Lanchester on Alastair Campbell’s Diaries

  • The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries edited by Alastair Campbell and Richard Stott  Buy this book

Why we have them I can’t think

Rosemary Hill: ‘Mrs Woolf and the Servants’

Travels with My Mom

Terry Castle in Santa Fe

Rosemarie Bodenheimer on Elizabeth Gaskell

  • The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell edited by Joanne Shattock et al

Patrick Wright: The Nixon/Mao Show

Short Cuts

Deborah Friedell: First Impressions

R.W. Johnson remembers the trial

  • The State v. Nelson Mandela: The Trial That Changed South Africa by Joel Joffe  Buy this book

Joanna Biggs: Gwendoline Riley

At the Movies

Michael Wood: The Simpsons

Adam Thirlwell on Michael Chabon

Peter Campbell: The Heart

Karl Schlögel: Writing Diaries under Stalin

  • Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin by Jochen Hellbeck  Buy this book

Rashid Khalidi: Fatah and Hamas

Jenny Diski: Princess Margaret

Inigo Thomas: New York Megacity

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Asparagus, peas, ham

Featured articles

Not Like the Rest of Us
Linda Colley: The Clinton Succession

The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam
Henry Siegman: There Is No Peace Process

Shtum
John Lanchester on Alastair Campbell’s Diaries

Travels with My Mom
Terry Castle in Santa Fe

Short Cuts
Deborah Friedell: First Impressions

At the Movies
Michael Wood: The Simpsons