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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
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 Batuman, who completed her PhD last year, lives in San Francisco.
David Bromwich teaches English at Yale and is the editor of a selection of Burke’s writings, On Empire, Liberty and Reform.
Stephen Burt is an associate professor of English at Harvard. His collection of essays and reviews, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, is available now.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jenny Diski’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
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 LRB’s contributing editors.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Leconte de L’Isle.
Gareth Peirce is a lawyer who represents a number of individuals who have been the subject of rendition and torture in the past, others still held today in Guantánamo Bay, in prisons in the UK on the basis of secret evidence, and in secret prisons abroad under regimes that continue to practise torture.
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, director of the US Middle East Project in New York, is a visiting research professor at SOAS, University of London. He is a former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America.
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.
