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Contents
Vol. 31 No. 13 · 9 July 2009
Rory Stewart: Why Are We in Afghanistan?
Frank Grace, Nora Crook, Chris Weeks, Mike Mosher, Robert Lumley, Moshé Machover, Nigel Gould-Davies, Peter Green, Harry Stopes
Christopher Caldwell: Bernard Kouchner
Tim Parks: Silone and Silone
- Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao Pugliese Buy this book
Michael Wood on ‘North by Northwest’
Glen Newey: Political Morality
Rosemarie Bodenheimer: Gissing’s Life
Thomas Jones: Sarah Waters
Sam Thompson: Wells Tower
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Buy this book
Leofranc Holford-Strevens: The Case for Case
- The Oxford Handbook of Case edited by Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Paintings without People
Caroline Walker Bynum: Medieval Marvels
- The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett Buy this book
Clancy Martin: My Life as a Drunk
Contributors
Rosemarie Bodenheimer is a professor of English at Boston College. Her latest book is Knowing Dickens.
Christopher Caldwell writes a column for the Financial Times. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West has just been published by Penguin.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Daniel Finn is a journalist who lives in Dublin.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens is a consultant scholar-editor at OUP and the author of Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and His Achievement.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Clancy Martin’s first novel, How to Sell, is out from Harvill Secker. A former jeweller, he teaches philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Glen Newey, whose books include Freedom of Speech: Counting the Costs and The Political Theory of John Gray, is a visiting research fellow at Helsinki Collegium.
Tim Parks’s novels include Tongues of Flame, Loving Roger, Europa, Rapids and, most recently, Dreams of Rivers and Seas.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Tom Shippey’s edited collection of essays on Grimm’s mythology, The Shadow-Walkers, won the Mythopoeic Society’s 2008 award for scholarship. He is working on a book about death-scenes in Old Norse.
Rory Stewart is the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights and Director of the Carr Center on Human Rights Policy at Harvard.
Sam Thompson teaches at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
Caroline Walker Bynum teaches medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Michael Wood’s books include America in the Movies, The Magician’s Doubts, The Road to Delphi and, most recently, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. He teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton.
