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Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 38 No. 3 (4 February 2016)
View ArticleJonathan Meades: Designs for the Third Reich
Luc Tuymans’s painting The Walk shows Hitler and Speer silhouetted in early evening light on the Obersalzberg. The photograph that the painting is based on is mute. Tuymans’s manipulation of it is...
View ArticleLana Spawls: What a Junior Doctor Does
Although the second strike has been suspended for more talks to take place, the mood among doctors is pessimistic. The first round of negotiations gave us some hope, but the government has proved...
View ArticleJoost Hiltermann: The Iran-Iraq War
Predicting what will start a war, and when, is an unrewarding business. Long-term trends (‘causes’) are often clear enough, but not the proximate causes, or triggers. We can assess the comparative...
View ArticleEd Miliband: The Inequality Problem
‘What do I see in our future today you ask? I see pitchforks, as in angry mobs with pitchforks, because while … plutocrats are living beyond the dreams of avarice, the other 99 per cent of our fellow...
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Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 38 No. 4 (18 February 2016)
View ArticleAdam Shatz: Israel’s Putinisation
Ahmad Tibi, a long-standing Arab member of the Knesset, once remarked that ‘Israel is democratic towards Jews, and Jewish towards Arabs.’ For many years, that soundbite nicely captured the...
View ArticleJames Meek: Robin Hood in a Time of Austerity
The wealthiest and most powerful in Europe, Australasia and North America have turned the myth to their advantage. In this version of Robin Hood the traditional poor – the unemployed, the disabled,...
View ArticleSheila Fitzpatrick: Julian Barnes
The two great preoccupations of Barnes’s Shostakovich are his own character weaknesses and his relationship to the Soviet regime (‘Power’). The women in his life get some attention, his male friends...
View ArticleTim Parks: Skulduggery in the Vatican
‘Most blessed Father,’ five international auditors wrote to Pope Francis on 27 June 2013, three months into his papacy, ‘there is an almost total lack of clarity in the accounts of both the Holy See...
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Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 38 No. 5 (3 March 2016)
View ArticlePatrick Cockburn: End Times for the Caliphate?
The war in Syria and Iraq has produced two new de facto states in the last five years and enabled a third quasi-state greatly to expand its territory and power. The two new states, though unrecognised...
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