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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 15 · 4 August 2005
Lawrence Rosen: Misreading Muslim Extremism
- Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy Buy this book
- The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel, translated by Pascale Ghazaleh Buy this book
Patrick Cockburnin Baghdad
Eric Hobsbawm: Revolution in the Family
- Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 by Göran Therborn Buy this book
Helen Cooper: The upwardly mobile Pastons
- Blood and Roses: The Paston Family in the 15th Century by Helen Castor Buy this book
Hal Foster at the Biennale
Charles Glass: Lebanon without the Syrians
Tom Nairn: The Upstaging of the G8
Donald MacKenzie: The stochastic dynamics of market prices
- The (Mis)behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson Buy this book
Thomas Jones on the internet
Peter Howarth: Edward Thomas’s contingencies
- Collected Poems by Edward Thomas, edited by R. George Thomas Buy this book
Jonathan Rée on Kierkegaard
- Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Garff, translated by Bruce Kirmmse Buy this book
Jenny Diski: In the Typing Pool
Lucia Berlin’s letters to August Kleinzahler
Adam Phillips: John Banville’s Great Unanswerables
Nicole Devarenne: South African women speak out
- Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk
- A Change of Tongue by Antjie Krog
- Die Onsigbares by E.K.M. Dido
Andrew O’Hagan in Tavistock Square
Contributors
Lucia Berlin died in Los Angeles in 2004. Most of her short stories are collected in three volumes published by Black Sparrow.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent on the Independent and has been visiting Iraq since 1977. Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq was published in April.
Helen Cooper is a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge and the author of The English Romance in Time.
Nicole Devarenne teaches part-time in the English Department at York University. She is an editor of the journal Modernism/ Modernity.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
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.
Eric Hobsbawm’s most recent book is Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism.
Peter Howarth teaches at Queen Mary, University of London and is the author of British Poetry in the Age of Modernism.
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.
Donald MacKenzie’s Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed will be published by Oxford. He teaches sociology at Edinburgh University.
Tom Nairn is a researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, concerned with nationalism and the political and cultural effects of globalisation.
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.
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.
Jonathan Rée is a member of the philosopher’s group of the British Humanist Association. He co-edited The Kierkegaard Reader.
Lawrence Rosen teaches anthropology at Princeton and law at Columbia Law School. A Carnegie Scholar, he is the author of The Culture of Islam and Law as Culture: An Invitation.
