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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 Buy this book
- 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’s The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence came out last year; he teaches at Harvard. A collection of his essays on contemporary poets will appear next year.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published 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 has been given this year’s E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Family Romance, is out in paperback.
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.
