The Liberal

Autumn 2007

Features:

• What’s Left for Darfur? by Stephen Twigg, p.
• The Peter Tatchell Column: In Praise of Somaliland, p.
• The TF Lane Column: The Islamist as Ironist, p.
• Visions of a Liberal Future, by Helen Suzman, p.
• Selective Remembrance, by James Walston, p.
• Letter from Ghana, by Nana Akua, p.
• Salvation in the Sahara, by John Thorne, p.
• The Presidential Circus, by Simon Radford, p.
• Israel at Middle Age, by Benny Morris, p.
• On Myth, by Marina Warner, p.
• Poetry and the English Imagination, by Bryan Appleyard, p.
• Ripening-time, by Olivia McCannon, p.
• Girl in the Refrigerator, by Etgar Keret, p. 35.
• Theatre: Reservoirsof Blood, by John Lennard, p.
• New Music: Snake in the Grass by Robert Fokkens, p.
• Ballet: Zero Degrees for Collaboration, bySarah Frater, p.
• Visual Art: Art Against the Inevitable in Sudan, by Niccoĺ Milanese, p.
• Film: Out of Africa, by Catherine Bray, p.
• The Anatole Kaletsky Column: The Resource Curse, p.
• Hugh Tancred on Iain Bamforth’s The Good European, p.
• Michael Hamburger on G̈nter Grass’ Peeling the Onion, p.
• Simon Kovar on Bin Laden’s Messages to the World, p.
• Ronald Wright on Benjamin Woolley’s Savage Kingdom, p.
• Simon Kovar on the ippr’s Beyond Liberty, p.
• Ross Wilson on Ann Wroe’s Being Shelley, p.
• Susanna Hislop on Benjamin Markovits’ Imposture, p.
• Nii Ayikwei Parkes on Chris Abani’s Virgin of the Flames, p.
• 01 It’s Heart that Discerns Shmu’el HaNagid translated by Peter Cole
• 09 Prison Moshe Natan trans. Peter Cole
• 10 Could Kings Right a People Gone Bad? Shmu’el HaNagid trans. Peter Cole
• 13 The Multiple Troubles of Man Shmu’el HaNagid trans. Peter Cole
• 17 Dream of a Field Carrie Etter And So It Came to Nothing Shelomo Ibn Gabirol
• 18 The Physician Yosef Ibn Zabara trans. Peter Cole
• 21 On David Constantine’s Poem Jack Mapanje
• 27 Rebellion Nii Ayikwei Parkes
• 29 Fieldston Fall Ben Markovits
• 32 Weak with Wine Moshe Ibn Ezra trans. Peter Cole
• 33 Rain Ben Morgan
• 34 That Girl Emerged Todoros Abulafia trans. Peter Cole
• 35 Chiasmus for a Doe Sa’adia Ibn Danaan trans. Peter Cole
• 37 Rembrandt: David and Uriah David Broadbridge
• 43 Don’t Turn Round G̈nter Grass trans. Michael Hamburger
• 47 At the Treasury Shmu’el HaNagid trans. Peter Cole
• 55 My Ex Yosef Ibn Zabara trans. Peter Cole
• 64 Palindrome for a Patron; or, Caution: Yehuda Alharizi This Door Swings Both Ways trans. Peter Cole
• 48 Ode on the Death of Shelley Lucien Zell
• 49 Almandine Carrie Etter
• 51 The Great Divide Ian Parks
• 43 Beasts of Nalunga by Jack Mapanje Niccoĺ Milanese
• 42 Talking to the Dead by Elaine Feinstein Fiona Sampson