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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 11 · 2 June 2005
David Runciman: Bush and the ‘Death Tax’
- Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth by Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro Buy this book
Daniel Caola, David Elstein, Bernard Porter, John Calderon, Guy Braithwaite, Scott Herrick, Oliver Dennis
Michael Wood on Henry James and the Great War
Andrew O’Hagan: Michael Finkel gets lucky
James Davidson: Why would a guy want to marry a guy?
Alan Ryan: Henry Sidgwick’s Anxieties
Barbara Taylor: My Mennonite Conversion
Wyatt Mason: Safran Foer’s survival stories
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Lorna Scott Fox: A novel plea for silence
- Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
- The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa Buy this book
Nicholas Guyatt: Demythologising the antebellum South
- Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South by Michael O’Brien Buy this book
David Reynolds salutes America’s longest-serving president
Geoffrey Best: Appeasement please
- Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain’s Road to War by Ian Kershaw Buy this book
Peter Campbell celebrates Penguin’s 70th birthday
Rose George reports from post-civil war Liberia
Contributors
Geoffrey Best’s Churchill and War was published in 2005. He taught history at Sussex for many years.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World, about Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire. She is working on a book about human waste.
Nicholas Guyatt, until recently an associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, is moving to the University of York next month. Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World appeared earlier this year.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Wyatt Mason is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. His translation of Rimbaud’s works is published by Scribner.
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.
David Reynolds’s From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt’s America and the Origins of the Second World War came out in 2001. He is a fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge.
David Runciman’s new book is Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
Alan Ryan’s books include Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill. He is warden of New College, Oxford.
Lorna Scott Fox is an editor and translator who lives in London.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Barbara Taylor teaches history at the University of East London. Women, Gender and Enlightenment (edited with Sarah Knott) will appear in paperback in May.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
