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Contents
Vol. 31 No. 1 · 1 January 2009
Alan Bennett eats his lunch
Josh Foster, Timothy Scarnecchia, Jocelyn Alexander and 33 others, Gavin Kitching, Mahmood Mamdani, Gaiutra Bahadur, Hugh Pennington, Damian Smyth, Edward Pearce, Noah McCormack, Brian Lee
James Wolcott: Updike should stay at home
Michael Wood on ‘The Alexandria Quartet’
John Lanchester on video games
Bee Wilson on Pinocchio
- Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, translated by Geoffrey Brock Buy this book
Adam Shatz: The Greek Uprising
Andrew O’Hagan: The Misfit
David Edgar on Theatrical Families
- A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd Buy this book
Mark Ford on Edward Thomas
- Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems edited by Edna Longley Buy this book
Michael Wood: Harvey Milk
- Milk directed by Gus Van Sant (2008)
Malcolm Bull: How to be a community
- Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy by Roberto Esposito, translated by Timothy Campbell Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Saul Steinberg’s Playful Modernism
Siddhartha Deb: The Story of Partition
- The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan Buy this book
- The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar Buy this book
McGuire Gibson on the Theft of Iraq’s Antiquities
Contributors
Alan Bennett’s play Enjoy, first seen in 1980, opens at the Gielgud Theatre at the end of this month.
Malcolm Bull is the author of Seeing Things Hidden and Anti-Nietzsche, out shortly from Verso.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Siddhartha Deb, a writer in residence at the New School in New York, is working on a study of contemporary India.
David Edgar’s plays include The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Playing with Fire and, most recently, Testing the Echo. He is working on a book about playwriting.
Mark Ford teaches at UCL.
McGuire Gibson is a professor of Mesopotamian archaeology at the University of Chicago.
Lavinia Greenlaw’s most recent book is a memoir, The Importance of Music to Girls.
John Lanchester, a contributing editor at the LRB, was given the 2008 E.M. Forster Prize.
Hilary Mantel’s novel set in Jeddah, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, is published by HarperPerennial. Her latest, Wolf Hall, will be out this year.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Sara Roy teaches at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and is the author of Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
Hugo Williams’s latest collection is Dear Room.
Bee Wilson is the author of Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee.
James Wolcott is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of the novel The Catsitters. He is working on a memoir about 1970s Manhattan.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
