LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS 2010 Gypsy Rose Lee Frederick Seidel Hasbara Recession

Description: LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSMarch 11th, 2010, Volume 32, Number 5 The London Review of Books is a British, fortnightly published magazine of literary, political and social commentary essays written by well-known authors, historians and academics. Typically the essays are long, well-researched, sometimes controversial, but always interesting. Exhibitions, film releases and book reviews are also covered, and each issue features a couple of poems. These back issues offer a great insight into the events and upheavals, political and social, global and local, that were occuring at the time. In this issue:John Lanchester - The Great British Economy Disaster: A Very Good Election to Lose Lynn Hunt - The Devil in the Holy Water, or, The Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon by Robert Darnton; Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech by Charles WaltonYonatan Mendel - Hasbara: Israel’s ‘Public Diplomacy’David Simpson - War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime by Mary FavretFrederick Seidel - Poem: ‘London’R.W. Johnson - The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa by Bertrand TaitheColin Burrow - The Infinities by John BanvilleTessa Hadley - The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane GardamRobert Crawford - Poem: ‘Guide’Helen Hackett - Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James ShapiroAdam Shatz - Short Cuts: The Short Career of Amy BishopChristopher Tayler - The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years by Clive JamesAmy Larocca - Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel; Gypsy: The Art of the Tease by Rachel ShteirPeter Campbell - At the Gagosian: ‘Crash’Conor Gearty - The Law of Human Rights by Richard Clayton and Hugh Tomlinson; Human Rights Law and Practice edited by Anthony Lester, David Pannick and Javan Herberg; Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom by Jack Beatson, Stephen Grosz, Tom Hickman, Rabinder Singh and Stephanie PalmerJames Oakes - Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders’ New World Order by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene GenoveseJohn Hartley Williams - Poem: ‘Memory of the Night of 4’Jonathan Lear - The Evocative Object World by Christopher Bollas; The Infinite Question by Christopher BollasTim Dee - Diary: Twitching 52 pages The magazines are large-format, measuring approximately 38cm by 27cm. They have been folded, and will be sent folded. Condition: The magazine has previously been folded (and will be sent folded). Generally the condition is very good, showing light reading wear and some minor creasing. The magazine pictured is the one you will receive. I accept returns, and if you’d like further information, please ask!DR 027 _gsrx_vers_1677 (GS 9.8.1 (1677))

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