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Contents

Vol. 30 No. 12   ·   19 June 2008

Plato Made It Up

James Davidson: Atlantis at Last!

  • The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato’s Myth by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated by Janet Lloyd  Buy this book

Letters

Verena Mayer and Roland Koberg, Pete Ayrton, Sven Anderson, Richard Davenport-Hines, Slavoj Žižek, Inigo Thomas, Laura Mansnerus, Richard Pevear, Garth Clarke, W.S. Milne, DeAnn DeLuna

Patrick Cockburn: A New Deal for Iraq

Norman Dombey on the Syrian Sting

Terry Eagleton on Theodor Adorno

Uri Avnery: Sleaze in Israeli Politics

Keith Gessen: A Sad Old Literary Man

At the Door

Peter Campbell: Open Sesame!

Eyal Press on Paul Krugman

  • The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America from the Right by Paul Krugman  Buy this book

Bill Manhire

The Olympics Scam

Iain Sinclair: The Razing of East London

Jean Sprackland

Short Cuts

John Lanchester: Who’s Afraid of the Library of America?

Colin Burrow: Writing Under Cromwell

Sam Thompson on Will Self

Adam Phillips: A New Model of Sexuality

  • Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa Diamond  Buy this book

Bee Wilson: The First Detectives

  • The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale  Buy this book

Tim Crane: Wilfrid Sellars

  • In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars edited by Kevin Scharp and Robert Brandom  Buy this book
  • Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images by Jay Rosenberg  Buy this book

Matthew Sweeney

Diary

Thomas Jones: The Last Days of eBay

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Girl in Chinese costume

Featured articles

Plato Made It Up
James Davidson: Atlantis at Last!

The Olympics Scam
Iain Sinclair: The Razing of East London

Diary
Thomas Jones: The Last Days of eBay

At the Door
Peter Campbell: Open Sesame!

Short Cuts
John Lanchester: Who’s Afraid of the Library of America?