LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Oct 2009 Miners Strike J.M. Coetzee Fordlandia A.S. Byatt

Description: LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSOctober 8th, 2009, Volume 31, Number 19 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:Stephen Sedley - The New British Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor James Wood - The Children’s Book by A.S. ByattFrank Kermode - Summertime by J.M. CoetzeeRoger Southall - South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country since the End of Apartheid by R.W. JohnsonR.F. Langley - Poem: ‘Practical Myth-Making’Colin Burrow - ‘The Testament of Cresseid’ and ‘Seven Fables’ by Robert Henryson, translated by Seamus HeaneyWendy Doniger - The Mahabharata translated by John SmithBridget Riley - At the End of My Pencil: My LinesJulian Bell - Splendours and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity and the Quest for Human Happiness by Semir Zeki; Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki by John Onians; Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images by Barbara Maria StaffordAndrew O’Hagan - K Blows Top by Peter CarlsonJohn Lanchester - Short Cuts: Caster SemenyaTom Nairn - Marching to the Fault Line: The 1984 Miners’ Strike and the Death of Industrial Britain by Francis Beckett and David Hencke; Shafted: The Media, the Miners’ Strike and the Aftermath edited by Granville WilliamsMichael Wood - At the Movies - District 9 directed by Neill BlomkampJames C. Scott - Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg GrandinPeter Campbell - At the Natural History Museum: The Darwin CentreJenny Diski - Family Newspapers?: Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-78 by Adrian Bingham 44 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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