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Contents

Vol. 29 No. 18   ·   20 September 2007

Simon Jenkins: Party Funding in Britain

  • The Cost of Democracy: Party Funding in Modern British Politics by K.D. Ewing  Buy this book

Letters

Tony Judt, Thomas Laqueur, Arthur Chaskalson, Wim Trengove, R.W. Johnson, Lorna Scott Fox, Jonathan Marshall

Saartjie Baartman’s Ghost

Hilary Mantel: The New Apartheid

  • When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of Aids in South Africa by Didier Fassin, translated by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro  Buy this book
  • The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against Aids by Helen Epstein  Buy this book

Global Style

Hal Foster: Renzo Piano

  • Piano: Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1966-2005 by Philip Jodidio  Buy this book
  • Renzo Piano Building Workshop Vol. IV by Peter Buchanan  Buy this book

Depicting Europe

Perry Anderson

At the Movies

Michael Wood: Bergman and Antonioni

Short Cuts

Elisabeth Ladenson: Autofriction

Michael Wood on William James

  • William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert Richardson  Buy this book

Dinah Birch on Pugin

Robert Crawford

Sanjay Subrahmanyam: India after Independence

  • India after Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha  Buy this book
  • The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence and India’s Future by Martha Nussbaum  Buy this book

Peter Campbell: Faith, Narrative and Desire

Che pasticcio!

Tim Parks: Carlo Emilio Gadda

  • That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda, translated by William Weaver  Buy this book

Simon Critchley: Alain Badiou

Andrew Saint: Foscolo’s Grave

Contributors

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Featured articles

Depicting Europe
Perry Anderson

Saartjie Baartman’s Ghost
Hilary Mantel: The New Apartheid

Che pasticcio!
Tim Parks: Carlo Emilio Gadda

Global Style
Hal Foster: Renzo Piano

At the Movies
Michael Wood: Bergman and Antonioni

Short Cuts
Elisabeth Ladenson: Autofriction