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Contents

Vol. 29 No. 19   ·   4 October 2007

Letters

Neil Forster, Rory MacQueen, Barbara Graziosi, Flora Jeunet, Gordon Peilow, Martin Sanderson

Michael Wood: Coetzee’s Grumpy Voice

Behind the Gas Lamp

Julian Barnes: Félix Fénéon

  • Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon, translated by Luc Sante  Buy this book

Pakistan at Sixty

Tariq Ali: The Trouble with Pakistan

Pure New Labour

Ross McKibbin: Three Groans for Gordon

Nicholas Guyatt: Theories of Slavery

  • Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis  Buy this book
  • The Trader, the Owner, the Slave by James Walvin  Buy this book
  • The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 by Colin Kidd  Buy this book
  • The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese  Buy this book

Short Cuts

Andrew O’Hagan: Telecom Rehab

John Banville: Exit Zuckerman

Amit Chaudhuri: Midnight at Marble Arch

Susan Eilenberg: ‘Mister Pip’

James Shapiro sticks up for Shakespeare

Wayne Koestenbaum: Tennessee Williams

  • Tennessee Williams: Notebooks edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton  Buy this book

At Victoria Miro

Peter Campbell: Sarah Sze’s Art of Arrangement

Adam Phillips: Translating Freud

Diary

Anne Enright: Disliking the McCanns

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Red paper dart

Featured articles

Diary
Anne Enright: Disliking the McCanns

Pakistan at Sixty
Tariq Ali: The Trouble with Pakistan

Pure New Labour
Ross McKibbin: Three Groans for Gordon

Behind the Gas Lamp
Julian Barnes: Félix Fénéon

Short Cuts
Andrew O’Hagan: Telecom Rehab

At Victoria Miro
Peter Campbell: Sarah Sze’s Art of Arrangement