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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 22 · 18 November 2004
Corey Robin: How the US did for Guatemala
- The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War by Greg Grandin
Rupert Read, Julian Rathbone, Samir El-youssef, Jack Adrian, W.J. Johnston, Halina Filipowicz, Keith Flett, Timothy Knapman, Lorna Scott Fox, Colin Armstrong, Don Locke, Ian Johnston, Sheridan Nye
Jenny Diski: Doing what we’re told
- The Man who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram by Thomas Blass Buy this book
Patrick Collinson on Anne Boleyn
Charles Glass in Afghanistan
Bernard Porter on Lord Cromer, a Victorian Ornamentalist in Egypt
- Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul by Roger Owen Buy this book
Wyatt Mason: David Foster Wallace
Thomas Jones: Dick Cheney’s Homepage
Caroline Maclean on Iain Sinclair
John Mullan on black and Asian writers in London
Peter Campbell: the art of William Nicholson
Liam McIlvanney: James Hogg
- The Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg by Karl Miller Buy this book
- Altrive Tales by James Hogg, edited by Gillian Hughes Buy this book
William Wootten on Edwin Morgan
Hugh Pennington on supermarkets
- Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets by Joanna Blythman Buy this book
- Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence Buy this book
- Food Policy Old and New edited by Simon Maxwell and Rachel Slater Buy this book
Tom Nairn: Australian Blues
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
Charles Glass has recently published two books on the Middle East, The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in France during the German occupation.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Kinsella’s most recent book of poems is The New Arcadia.
Nick Laird’s second collection of poems, On Purpose, is due in August. He lives in Rome.
Liam McIlvanney is the author of Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late 18th-Century Scotland, which won the Saltire First Book Award in 2002. He teaches at the University of Aberdeen.
Caroline Maclean is working on a PhD about the novelist Mary Butts.
Wyatt Mason is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. His translation of Rimbaud’s works is published by Scribner.
John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.
Tom Nairn is a researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, concerned with nationalism and the political and cultural effects of globalisation.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.
Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea.
William Wootten sells books, when not reviewing them.