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A World-wide community of thinkers, writers and scholars:
Tariq Ali on the balance of power in contemporary Pakistan • Sara Roy on Gaza • R.W. Johnson on Zimbabwe • Charles Glass on Cyber Jihad • Corey Robin on terrorism and the Constitution • Tony Judt on the false consciousness of American Liberals • John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt on the influence of the Israel lobby on American politics • John Lanchester on banks and the credit crunch • James Meek on the Water Utilities • Ross McKibbin on the destruction of the public sphere • Donald Mackenzie on the political economy of carbon trading • Amartya Sen on the economic benefits of conservation • Stephen Sedley on the history of the trial • Gareth Peirce on Internment without trial • Susan Pedersen on Women’s Suffrage • Eric Foner on Slavery • Thomas Laqueur on Eichmann and the Holocaust • Marina Warner on women in proverbs • Tom Nairn on Hardt and Negri • Lorraine Daston on the Victorians and Meteorology • Stephen Shapin on Craig Venter and the Genome Project • High Pennington on Clostridium Difficile • Mary Douglas on the Making of the Hebrew Bible • Wendy Doniger on Indo-European poetry and myth • Robert Irwin on the Koran • Judith Butler on Hannah Arendt • Jerry Fodor on Darwin • Jonathan Ree on Kierkegaard • Jonathan Lear on Virtue • Jonathan Barnes on science and medicine in early China and Greece • M.F. Burnyeat demythologises Pythagoras • Mary Beard on Tacitus • Wynne Godley on Masud Khan • Slavoj Zizek on Freud • Frank Kermode on W.H. Auden • Elaine Showalter on Margaret Atwood • Germaine Greer on the Earl of Rochester • Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Edith Wharton • James Wood on Thomas Hardy • Tom Paulin on Ted Hughes • Michael Wood on War and Peace • Sheila Fitzpatrick on Solzhenitsyn • Jacqueline Rose on Bernhard Schlink • Jonathan Spence on Zhu Wen • Olivier Todd on Marguerite Duras • Terry Eagleton on Theodor Adorno • Fredric Jameson on Slavoj Zizek • A.D. Nuttall on Stanley Fish • Jenny Diski on Susan Sontag • Tessa
Published every two weeks since 1979 and seen by 100,000 readers worldwide, each issue of the London Review of Books contains original review essays and features by leading international academics, writers and journalists on a broad range of books, subjects and themes.
Wide-ranging subject coverageLondon Review of Books offers articles covering an extensive range of subject areas – Politics, History, Anthropology, Art and Architecture, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Environmental Economics, Medicine and Sci-ence, International Politics, Law, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Memoir and Travel, Music, Religion, Psychoanalysis and Psychology.
Internationally-acclaimed contributorsSome of the world’s finest writers consider the London Review of Books the best place to publish their essays. Regular contributors include: Ed Harriman, Adam Phillips, Frank Kermode, Andrew O’Hagan, Hal Foster, Anne Enright, Slavoj Zizek, Michael Wood, David Runciman, Perry Anderson
Highest editorial standardsAll articles are closely edited and rigorously fact-checked by a team of pro-fessional editors. Articles are commissioned from a large pool of renowned writers and selected on the basis of literary quality, depth and accuracy of information and originality of point of view.
International scopeLondon Review of Books offers broad coverage of countries and events world-
London Review of BooksThirty years of quality writing NOW ONLINE
EXCLUSIVE, IN-DEPTH and ONLINE NOW – www.lrb.co.uk/librarians
Enjoy unlimited access to every issue of the London Review of Books since 1979…
A World-wide community of thinkers, writers and scholars:
Tariq Ali on the balance of power in contemporary Pakistan • Sara Roy on Gaza • R.W. Johnson on Zimbabwe • Charles Glass on Cyber Jihad • Corey Robin on terrorism and the Constitution • Tony Judt on the false consciousness of American Liberals • John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt on the influence of the Israel lobby on American politics • John Lanchester on banks and the credit crunch • James Meek on the Water Utilities • Ross McKibbin on the destruction of the public sphere • Donald Mackenzie on the political economy of carbon trading • Amartya Sen on the economic benefits of conservation • Stephen Sedley on the history of the trial • Gareth Peirce on Internment without trial • Susan Pedersen on Women’s Suffrage • Eric Foner on Slavery • Thomas Laqueur on Eichmann and the Holocaust • Marina Warner on women in proverbs • Tom Nairn on Hardt and Negri • Lorraine Daston on the Victorians and Meteorology • Stephen Shapin on Craig Venter and the Genome Project • High Pennington on Clostridium Difficile • Mary Douglas on the Making of the Hebrew Bible • Wendy Doniger on Indo-European poetry and myth • Robert Irwin on the Koran • Judith Butler on Hannah Arendt • Jerry Fodor on Darwin • Jonathan Ree on Kierkegaard • Jonathan Lear on Virtue • Jonathan Barnes on science and medicine in early China and Greece • M.F. Burnyeat demythologises Pythagoras • Mary Beard on Tacitus • Wynne Godley on Masud Khan • Slavoj Zizek on Freud • Frank Kermode on W.H. Auden • Elaine Showalter on Margaret Atwood • Germaine Greer on the Earl of Rochester • Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Edith Wharton • James Wood on Thomas Hardy • Tom Paulin on Ted Hughes • Michael Wood on War and Peace • Sheila Fitzpatrick on Solzhenitsyn • Jacqueline Rose on Bernhard Schlink • Jonathan Spence on Zhu Wen • Olivier Todd on Marguerite Duras • Terry Eagleton on Theodor Adorno • Fredric Jameson on Slavoj Zizek • A.D. Nuttall on Stanley Fish • Jenny Diski on Susan Sontag • Tessa
Published every two weeks since 1979 and seen by 100,000 readers worldwide, each issue of the London Review of Books contains original review essays and features by leading international academics, writers and journalists on a broad range of books, subjects and themes.
Wide-ranging subject coverageLondon Review of Books offers articles covering an extensive range of subject areas – Politics, History, Anthropology, Art and Architecture, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Environmental Economics, Medicine and Sci-ence, International Politics, Law, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Memoir and Travel, Music, Religion, Psychoanalysis and Psychology.
Internationally-acclaimed contributorsSome of the world’s finest writers consider the London Review of Books the best place to publish their essays. Regular contributors include: Ed Harriman, Adam Phillips, Frank Kermode, Andrew O’Hagan, Hal Foster, Anne Enright, Slavoj Zizek, Michael Wood, David Runciman, Perry Anderson
Highest editorial standardsAll articles are closely edited and rigorously fact-checked by a team of pro-fessional editors. Articles are commissioned from a large pool of renowned writers and selected on the basis of literary quality, depth and accuracy of information and originality of point of view.
International scopeLondon Review of Books offers broad coverage of countries and events world-
London Review of BooksThirty years of quality writing NOW ONLINE
EXCLUSIVE, IN-DEPTH and ONLINE NOW – www.lrb.co.uk/librarians
Enjoy unlimited access to every issue of the London Review of Books since 1979…
‘I have no doubt that having the complete archive of LRB online will be of great scholarly and cultural value on both sides of the Atlantic.’
Linda Colley (Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University)
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• 24 new issues of the London Review of Books every year• Free access to the complete back archive - more than 10,000 articles• Regular online-only content• Leading experts in every academic field contribute essays to the London Review of Books making it an invaluable resource for students and researchers
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‘I have no doubt that having the complete archive of LRB online will be of great scholarly and cultural value on both sides of the Atlantic.’
Linda Colley (Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University)
EXCLUSIVE, IN-DEPTH and ONLINE NOW – www.lrb.co.uk/librarians
HIGH QUALITY CONTENT
• 24 new issues of the London Review of Books every year• Free access to the complete back archive - more than 10,000 articles• Regular online-only content• Leading experts in every academic field contribute essays to the London Review of Books making it an invaluable resource for students and researchers
SEARCH OPTIONS
Quick search available from any page employing a range of sophisticated algorithms to return the best results Advanced search supports Boolean operators, date ranges, and options to search for books by reviewed author, title, ISBN, publication date and sophisticated post-search options enable users to refine results by article type, by contributor as well as using catego-ries such as people, subject, place, Search results displayed by relevance, with options to sort by newest or oldest
BROWSING FEATURES
Browse contributors – a full list of contributors and links to their articles. Browse by categories – dynamic faceted browsing by subject, place, period, keyword and people. Browse by issues - find articles by issue and year of publication
A HOST OF OTHER BENEFITS
• Abstracts for all articles are publicly available via search engines such as
• Full text articles available in printer-friendly format and can be emailed
• Citation export to bibliographic and reference management tools
• Perpetual access rights to specifically subscribed content
• COUNTER format usage statistics are available online 24x7
Advanced search supports Boolean operators, date ranges, and options to search for books by reviewed author, title, ISBN, publication date and sophisticated post-search options enable users to refine results by article type.
Key Benefits for Librarians and Library Users
For more information contactthe London Review of Books:tel. +44 (0)20 7209 1141email: [email protected] or seewww.lrb.co.uk/librarians
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A World-wide community of thinkers, writers and scholars:
Tariq Ali on the balance of power in contemporary Pakistan • Sara Roy on Gaza • R.W. Johnson on Zimbabwe • Charles Glass on Cyber Jihad • Corey Robin on terrorism and the Constitution • Tony Judt on the false consciousness of American Liberals • John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt on the influence of the Israel lobby on American politics • John Lanchester on banks and the credit crunch • James Meek on the Water Utilities • Ross McKibbin on the destruction of the public sphere • Donald Mackenzie on the political economy of carbon trading • Amartya Sen on the economic benefits of conservation • Stephen Sedley on the history of the trial • Gareth Peirce on Internment without trial • Susan Pedersen on Women’s Suffrage • Eric Foner on Slavery • Thomas Laqueur on Eichmann and the Holocaust • Marina Warner on women in proverbs • Tom Nairn on Hardt and Negri • Lorraine Daston on the Victorians and Meteorology • Stephen Shapin on Craig Venter and the Genome Project • High Pennington on Clostridium Difficile • Mary Douglas on the Making of the Hebrew Bible • Wendy Doniger on Indo-European poetry and myth • Robert Irwin on the Koran • Judith Butler on Hannah Arendt • Jerry Fodor on Darwin • Jonathan Ree on Kierkegaard • Jonathan Lear on Virtue • Jonathan Barnes on science and medicine in early China and Greece • M.F. Burnyeat demythologises Pythagoras • Mary Beard on Tacitus • Wynne Godley on Masud Khan • Slavoj Zizek on Freud • Frank Kermode on W.H. Auden • Elaine Showalter on Margaret Atwood • Germaine Greer on the Earl of Rochester • Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Edith Wharton • James Wood on Thomas Hardy • Tom Paulin on Ted Hughes • Michael Wood on War and Peace • Sheila Fitzpatrick on Solzhenitsyn • Jacqueline Rose on Bernhard Schlink • Jonathan Spence on Zhu Wen • Olivier Todd on Marguerite Duras • Terry Eagleton on Theodor Adorno • Fredric Jameson on Slavoj Zizek • A.D. Nuttall on Stanley Fish • Jenny Diski on Susan Sontag • Tessa
Published every two weeks since 1979 and seen by 100,000 readers worldwide, each issue of the London Review of Books contains original review essays and features by leading international academics, writers and journalists on a broad range of books, subjects and themes.
Wide-ranging subject coverageLondon Review of Books offers articles covering an extensive range of subject areas – Politics, History, Anthropology, Art and Architecture, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Environmental Economics, Medicine and Sci-ence, International Politics, Law, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Memoir and Travel, Music, Religion, Psychoanalysis and Psychology.
Internationally-acclaimed contributorsSome of the world’s finest writers consider the London Review of Books the best place to publish their essays. Regular contributors include: Ed Harriman, Adam Phillips, Frank Kermode, Andrew O’Hagan, Hal Foster, Anne Enright, Slavoj Zizek, Michael Wood, David Runciman, Perry Anderson
Highest editorial standardsAll articles are closely edited and rigorously fact-checked by a team of pro-fessional editors. Articles are commissioned from a large pool of renowned writers and selected on the basis of literary quality, depth and accuracy of information and originality of point of view.
International scopeLondon Review of Books offers broad coverage of countries and events world-wide. From corruption and kickbacks in Iraq to excursions in Robespierre’s Paris. From the power of Google and Wal-Mart to flood-devastated New Orle-ans. From the villages of Kosovo to modern piracy on the high seas.
Not only book reviews London Review of Books is far more than just book reviews. There are also art
London Review of BooksThirty years of quality writing NOW ONLINE
EXCLUSIVE, IN-DEPTH and ONLINE NOW – www.lrb.co.uk/librarians
Enjoy unlimited access to every issue of the London Review of Books since 1979…
‘I have no doubt that having the complete archive of LRB online will be of great scholarly and cultural value on both sides of the Atlantic.’
Linda Colley (Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University)
EXCLUSIVE, IN-DEPTH and ONLINE NOW – www.lrb.co.uk/librarians
HIGH QUALITY CONTENT
• 24 new issues of the London Review of Books every year• Free access to the complete back archive - more than 10,000 articles• Regular online-only content• Leading experts in every academic field contribute essays to the London Review of Books making it an invaluable resource for students and researchers
SEARCH OPTIONS
Quick search available from any page employing a range of sophisticated algorithms to return the best results Advanced search supports Boolean operators, date ranges, and options to search for books by reviewed author, title, ISBN, publication date and sophisticated post-search options enable users to refine results by article type, by contributor as well as using catego-ries such as people, subject, place, Search results displayed by relevance, with options to sort by newest or oldest
BROWSING FEATURES
Browse contributors – a full list of contributors and links to their articles. Browse by categories – dynamic faceted browsing by subject, place, period, keyword and people. Browse by issues - find articles by issue and year of publication
A HOST OF OTHER BENEFITS
• Abstracts for all articles are publicly available via search engines such as
• Full text articles available in printer-friendly format and can be emailed
• Citation export to bibliographic and reference management tools
• Perpetual access rights to specifically subscribed content
• COUNTER format usage statistics are available online 24x7
Advanced search supports Boolean operators, date ranges, and options to search for books by reviewed author, title, ISBN, publication date and sophisticated post-search options enable users to refine results by article type.
Key Benefits for Librarians and Library Users
For more information contactthe London Review of Books:tel. +44 (0)20 7209 1141email: [email protected] or seewww.lrb.co.uk/librarians
Sign up today for a FREE TRIAL