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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 13 · 7 July 2005
Ed Harriman: On the Take in Iraq
John Nottingham, Andy Lyall, Anne Summers, Robert Brain, Carla O’Keefe
Steven Shapin: The Excesses of Richard Feynman
- Don’t You Have Time to Think? The Letters of Richard Feynman edited by Michelle Feynman
Hilary Mantel: Schrödinger in Clontarf
- A Game with Sharpened Knives by Neil Belton
Theo Tait: Abdulrazak Gurnah remembers Zanzibar
David Edgar: Thoughts about the BBC
- Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC by Georgina Born Buy this book
David Trotter: Pound’s Martyrology
- The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth Buy this book
- Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth Buy this book
Simon Schaffer on the Genius of the Periodic Table
- A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table by Michael Gordin Buy this book
John Connelly on a balanced view of the Holocaust
- The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy 1939-42 by Christopher Browning Buy this book
Hal Foster on kitsch in Bush’s America
Peter Campbell: Reynolds’s theatrical portraits
R.W. Johnson on Robert Mugabe’s latest tidy-up
Christopher Prendergast on Maigret’s elevation to the Panthéon
- Romans: Tome I by Georges Simenon
- Romans: Tome II by Georges Simenon
Michael Longley: ‘For Eddie Linden at Seventy’, ‘Call’ and ‘The Wren’
Christian Parenti: The Impasse in Bolivia
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
John Connelly teaches the history of East Central Europe at the University of California, Berkeley. He is writing a book about racism and its opponents in the Roman Catholic Church.
David Edgar’s last play was Testing the Echo. He is working on a new play about the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Hal Foster chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Ed Harriman is a journalist and television documentary film-maker.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Tom Leonard’s Access to the Silence was published last year by Etruscan Books.
Michael Longley’s Snow Water is out from Cape.
Hilary Mantel whose books include A Place of Greater Safety, Giving up the Ghost and Beyond Black, is working on a new novel called Wolf Hall.
Edwin Morgan’s most recent book is Tales from Baron Munchausen (Mariscat). The Play of Gilgamesh is due from Carcanet this year.
Christian Parenti, whose latest book is The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, is a research fellow at the City University of New York’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics.
Christopher Prendergast is a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and was the general editor of the Penguin Proust.
Simon Schaffer teaches the history of science at Cambridge. His collection of essays on inquiry and invention from the Renaissance to early industrialisation, co-edited with Lissa Roberts and Peter Dear, is due next year.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
David Trotter is a professor of English at Cambridge and the author of The English Novel in History, The Making of the Reader and, most recently, Cinema and Modernism.
