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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 21 · 4 November 2004
Michael Wood applauds Roth’s counter-historical bestseller
Stephen Sedley, Jeremy Harding, John M.W. Scott, Gillian Hughes, R.W. Johnson
Thomas Laqueur on Adolf Eichmann and Holocaust photography
- Eichmann: His Life and Crimes by David Cesarani
- Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence by Janina Struk Buy this book
Colin Kidd on the Republicans
- The Right Nation: Why America Is Different by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge Buy this book
- Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann Buy this book
- Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image by David Greenberg Buy this book
- America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism by Anatol Lieven
Elaine Showalter takes a road trip through Middle America
Slavoj Žižek on populist conservatism
Jacqueline Rose on suicide bombers
- My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing by Christoph Reuter, translated by Helena Ragg-Kirkby Buy this book
- Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers by Barbara Victor Buy this book
Thomas Jones: Ukip’s wrinkly glitz
Frank Kermode: Reviewing T.S. Eliot
- T.S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews by Jewel Spears Brooker Buy this book
Judith Butler commemorates ‘one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century’
Jenny Diski: Ghost-writing for Naim Attallah
Stefan Collini on V.S. Pritchett
Peter Campbell: Bruce Nauman’s Raw Materials
Theo Tait feels Naipaul’s fury
James Wood in conversation with Jane Austen
- Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation by Bharat Tandon
- Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style by D.A. Miller Buy this book
Andrew O’Hagan on pukey poetry anthologies
- Poems to Last a Lifetime edited by Daisy Goodwin Buy this book
- All the Poems You Need to Say I Do edited by Peter Forbes
August Kleinzahler remembers Thom Gunn
Contributors
John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air won the 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize. The first volume of his collected poems will be published by the Library of America.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at Berkeley, is writing a book on the critique of state violence in Jewish thought.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Durs Grünbein is the author of six volumes of poetry; Ashes for Breakfast, his first book to be translated into English, will be published in February by Farrar, Straus.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
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.
Jacqueline Rose teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity, edited with Anne Karpf, Brian Klug and Barbara Rosenbaum, will be published by Verso.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.
