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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 5 · 3 March 2005
Bernard Porter: Britain’s Atrocities in Kenya
- Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire by David Anderson
- Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya by Caroline Elkins Buy this book
Stephen Sedley, Rod Edmond, Scott Soames, Matilde Macagno, Joseph Epstein, Dominic Kirkham, Christopher Wintle, J.F. Darycott, Martin Ward
John Kerrigan: Late Yeats
Jenny Diski walks back to the future
- Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost and Where Did It Go? by Michael Bywater Buy this book
Rosemary Hill: At Home with the Stracheys
- Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family by Barbara Caine
David Gilmour: What did the British do for India?
- Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India by Elizabeth Buettner
Ross McKibbin: Go on, have a flutter
- Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past, Present and Future by David Miers
Paul Laity: Documentary cinema’s unsung poet
Adam Phillips: Malingering
Robert Alter: Reading Leviticus anthropologically
Thomas Jones: Blair’s nuptials
Andrew Bacevich: The Protean face of modern warfare
- The Remnants of War by John Mueller Buy this book
- The Future of War: The Re-Enchantment of War in the 21st Century by Christopher Coker
- The New Wars by Herfried Münkler Buy this book
Gabriele Annan: Bosnian fall-out
- The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living by Courtney Angela Brkic Buy this book
- This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace by Swanee Hunt Buy this book
- Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia by Lynne Jones Buy this book
Joanna Kavenna: In the génocidaire’s wake
Christopher Tayler: Meticulously modelled
Saree Makdisi: Living with the Wall
Contributors
Robert Alter teaches Hebrew and comparative literature at Berkeley. His translation of Psalms, with a commentary, will be published by Norton in the autumn.
Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.
Andrew Bacevich teaches history and international relations at Boston University. He is the author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
David Gilmour is the author of Curzon, The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling and Victorians in India.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule is published by Viking. She currently holds a writing fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge.
John Kerrigan is a professor of English at Cambridge. Archipelagic English: Literature, History and Politics 1603-1707 is due this month.
Paul Laity edited the Left Book Club Anthology. Formerly an editor at the London Review, he now works at the Guardian.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Saree Makdisi teaches English at UCLA. He is the author of William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s, and is working on a book to be called Palestine without a Road Map.
Bill Manhire directs the creative writing programme at Victoria University in Wellington. His newest book of poems is Lifted.
Conor O’Callaghan’s third book of poems, Fiction, is due from Gallery Press.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Bernard Porter is an emeritus professor of history, with several books on British imperialism and the secret services to his name. He is currently writing on Victorian architecture and society.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
