Vol. 33 No. 10 · 19 May 2011

Browse other issues from this year

Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Jackson Lears

A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman. Penguin, 988 pp., £12.99, June 2011, 978 0 14 104058 5

Letters

R.W. Johnson, Ella Raff, Charles Lindholm, Pauline and Anthony Freeman, Richard Hilken, Matthias Tomczak, John Havelock, Stephen Lovesey, Barry Supple

Neal Ascherson

Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao’s China by Patrick Wright. Oxford, 591 pp., £20, October 2010, 978 0 19 954193 5

Stephen W. Smith

The Story of Laurent Gbagbo

R.W. Johnson

Post-Post-Struggle

Keith Thomas

The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland by Alexandra Walsham. Oxford, 637 pp., £35, February 2011, 978 0 19 924355 6

Daljit Nagra

Poem: ‘A Ballad for Bopoluchi’

Donald MacKenzie

How to Make Money in Microseconds

Howard Hotson

Don’t Look to the Ivy League

Christopher Tayler

Short Cuts: The School of Life

Terry Eagleton

Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy. Faber, 438 pp., £12.99, April 2011, 978 0 571 21074 9

Lorna Scott Fox

Books Burn Badly by Manuel Rivas, translated by Jonathan Dunne. Vintage, 592 pp., £8.99, February 2011, 978 0 09 952033 7

Graham Robb

Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast by Jay Smith. Harvard, 378 pp., £25.95, March 2011, 978 0 674 04716 7

Jenny Diski

Tough without a Gun: The Extraordinary Life of Humphrey Bogart by Stefan Kanfer. Faber, 288 pp., £14.99, February 2011, 978 0 571 26072 0

T.J. Clark

At the V&A: ‘The Cult of Beauty’

Andrew Ross

Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy by Ross Perlin. Verso, 258 pp., £14.99, May 2011, 978 1 84467 686 6

Amit Chaudhuri

Diary: In Calcutta

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.

Sign up to our newsletter

For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.

Newsletter Preferences