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Vol. 26 No. 19   ·   7 October 2004

One Big Murder Mystery

Adam Shatz on the Algerian army’s leading novelist

  • The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra, translated by John Cullen  Buy this book
  • Wolf Dreams by Yasmina Khadra, translated by Linda Black  Buy this book
  • Morituri by Yasmina Khadra, translated by David Herman  Buy this book

Letters

David A. Bell, Ann Jefferson, Roger Partridge, Paul Burns

Robert VanderMolen

Patrick Cockburn on Iraq’s disintegration

Stephen Sedley: Who will speak for the judges?

R.W. Johnson on Macmillan and the Guardsmen

  • The Guardsmen: Harold Macmillan, Three Friends and the World They Made by Simon Ball  Buy this book

Rosemary Hill: Love and madness in 18th century London

  • Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century by John Brewer  Buy this book

Susan Eilenberg: At home with the Carlyles

  • Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage by Rosemary Ashton  Buy this book

Short Cuts

John Sturrock: Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

About to be at Tate Britain, or Meanwhile in Cork Street

Peter Campbell on Gwen and Augustus John

Intimate Strangers

Thomas Jones reads A.L. Kennedy’s new novel

Ian Jackman on killer SUVs

  • High and Mighty: SUVs, the World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way by Keith Bradsher  Buy this book

Alison Jolly on eastern ground apes

  • Lowly Origin: Where, When and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up by Jonathan Kingdon  Buy this book

Adam Kuper: Malinowski’s Papuan peregrinations

  • Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist 1884-1920 by Michael Young  Buy this book

Andreas Huyssen: Cold War culture conflicts

  • The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War by David Caute  Buy this book

Diary

Tom Paulin: Trimble’s virtues

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Receptionist in hotel lobby

Featured articles

One Big Murder Mystery
Adam Shatz on the Algerian army’s leading novelist

Intimate Strangers
Thomas Jones reads A.L. Kennedy’s new novel

Diary
Tom Paulin: Trimble’s virtues

Short Cuts
John Sturrock: Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

About to be at Tate Britain, or Meanwhile in Cork Street
Peter Campbell on Gwen and Augustus John