London Review of BooksLiterary review publishing essay-length book reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, history, philosophy, science and the arts by leading writers and thinkersAt the Movies Michael Wood on David Lean- (Found June 24, 2008 )http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n13/wood01_.html Diary Jenny Diski: On Not Liking South Africa- (Found June 24, 2008 ) The 'you can't understand until you've lived there' argument had kept me from visiting South Africa quite effectively. If being there would make me understanding about apartheid, I preferred to stay away. But now it had to be a very different place, 18 years after Nelson Mandela walked free from prison, 14 years on from the day when South Africa had its first democratic election. I was going to be there anyway - Cape Town was the end point of another journey - and I thought I'd spend a couple...http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n13/disk01_.html An Element of Unfairness Ross McKibbin on the Great Education Disaster- (Found June 24, 2008 ) The modern history of English secondary education begins with the 1944 Education Act, usually known as the Butler Act. It was, for better and worse, the most important piece of education legislation of the 20th century, but was expected to reform an educational system already deeply divisive and inequitable. In some ways it promoted the hopes of wartime democracy; in others it betrayed them. It raised the school-leaving age to 15 and made secondary education universal and free. It equalised the.http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n13/mcki01_.html Table of contents- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 13http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n13/contents.html |