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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 7 · 10 April 2008
Gareth Peirce: The War on British Muslims
Roger James, Stan Smith, Felix Holmgren, Paul Anderson, Karl Sabbagh, Gordon Kerry, Yael Lotan, Cal Winslow, Judith Chernaik
Jeremy Waldron: The One Per Cent Doctrine
Jenny Diski on Irmgard Keun
Lewis Siegelbaum: Communist Morality
- The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia by Orlando Figes Buy this book
Henry Siegman: The History of the Settlements
- The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-77 by Gershom Gorenberg
- Lords of the Land: The War over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 by Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar Buy this book
Peter Campbell on Pompeo Batoni
Thomas Jones on J.G. Ballard
- Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton – An Autobiography by J.G. Ballard Buy this book
John Lanchester: Ken or Boris?
Nicholas Spice on Hanif Kureishi
Elif Batuman: Superheroes
Wendy Doniger on the Indo-Europeans
Peter Campbell: Engineers and Architects
David Bromwich: President-Speak
Contributors
Elif BatumanElif Batuman teaches at Stanford. She has a blog at www.elifbatuman.net
David Bromwich teaches English at Yale, has edited a selection of Burke’s speeches, On Empire, Liberty and Reform, and writes on America’s wars for the Huffington Post.
Stephen Burt’s new book of criticism is The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence. A collection of his essays on contemporary poets, entitled Close Calls with Nonsense, will appear next year. He teaches at Harvard.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of, among other books, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India and The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Lanchester, a contributing editor at the LRB, was given the 2008 E.M. Forster Prize.
Leconte de L’Isle.
Gareth Peirce is a lawyer who has since the 1970s represented individuals accused of involvement in terrorism from both the Irish and the Muslim communities.
Lewis Siegelbaum’s latest book is Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile. He is a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
Henry Siegman is director of the US/Middle East Project and a research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Programme at SOAS. He was a senior fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations from 1994 to 2006.
Nicholas Spice is the publisher of the LRB.
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University Law School, is the author of Law and Disagreement and God, Locke and Equality.
