from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 9

The anti-globalisation movement suffered a dizzying setback on 9/11. Symbolic gatecrashing into the well-guarded meeting places of the super-rich suddenly seemed a much more sinister activity than before. Busting up branches of Starbucks and other Seattle-style antics became anathema in

Last November, I spent several days in the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, in banks' headquarters in the City and in the pale wood and glass of a hedge fund's St James's office trying to understand the credit crisis that had

The sequence of events that produced the current deadlock in Zimbabwe began on 11 March last year when Morgan Tsvangirai and a number of other members of the Movement for Democratic Change were arrested, tortured and beaten. Robert Mugabe had

a comprehensive study of sheep in human history

For some reason this story has been getting a fair amount of English-language-press attention, as, for example, Adam Sage reports in The Times that Michel Houellebecq in the mother of all book battles, as Houellebecq's mom -- octogenarian Lucie Ceccaldi

It's day two of the PEN World Voices festival in New York, and the schedule is already busier than yesterday.

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Jeanette Winterson's two most recent novels: The Stone Gods and Tanglewreck.

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