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Contents

Vol. 30 No. 17   ·   11 September 2008

Kemalism

Perry Anderson: After the Ottomans

Letters

John Clayton, Norman Gray, Andrew Milner, James Finlayson, Eliot Weinberger, Roman Szporluk, Terence Eccles, Simon Skinner, Michael Haslam, Damian Grant, Muharem Basdulj

Peter Campbell: Wyndham Lewis

Like a Thunderbolt

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Solzhenitsyn’s Mission

  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Liudmila Saraskina

What Condoleezza Said

Tony Wood: Why Did Saakashvili Do It?

Michael Dobson on 17th-century literary culture

At the Movies

Michael Wood: ‘Man on Wire’

What Works Doesn’t Work

Ross McKibbin: Politics without Ideas

Short Cuts

John Lanchester: Life on Mars?

Move Your Head and the Picture Changes

Jenny Turner on Helen DeWitt

  • Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff

Deborah Friedell: Mrs Dickens

Caleb Crain: Wilkie Collins’s Name Games

Liz Brown: Doris Day’s Performances

  • Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door by David Kaufman  Buy this book

Jerry Fodor on Operatic Seduction

  • Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera by Jean Starobinski, translated by C. Jon Delogu  Buy this book

Maya Jasanoff in Sierra Leone

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Fruit sundaes

Featured articles

Kemalism
Perry Anderson: After the Ottomans

Like a Thunderbolt
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Solzhenitsyn’s Mission

What Works Doesn’t Work
Ross McKibbin: Politics without Ideas

Move Your Head and the Picture Changes
Jenny Turner on Helen DeWitt

At the Movies
Michael Wood: ‘Man on Wire’

Short Cuts
John Lanchester: Life on Mars?