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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 16 · 18 August 2005
Mary Beard: The Tourist Trap
- Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor Buy this book
- Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor Buy this book
- Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Artemis Cooper Buy this book
Jacqueline Rose, Pablo Mukherjee, Virginia Tilley, Tony French, Niall Rudd, Martin Axford, Jack Pole, Chris Sansom, Chris McCabe
Alex de Waal: The Failure of Jihad in Africa
Elaine Showalter: The first black female novelist?
- In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on ‘The Bondwoman’s Narrative’ edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Hollis Robbins Buy this book
Dan Jacobson: Leo Nussimbaum’s self-creation
- The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught between East and West by Tom Reiss
Rosemary Hill on Sybille Bedford
- Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford
Iain Sinclair: Silence on the Euston Road
Chloe Hooper: To be Tasmanian
Ian Hacking: Birth and Death of the Brain
- The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind by Steven Rose
Thomas Jones: When is a planet not a planet?
Peter Barham on the psychiatrist Henry Cotton
- Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull Buy this book
Slavoj Žižek: Counterfactuality and the conservative historian
- What Might Have Been: Imaginary History from 12 Leading Historians edited by Andrew Roberts Buy this book
Lawrence Lessig on the sharing economy
- The Success of Open Source by Steven Weber
- Democratising Innovation by Eric von Hippel Buy this book
Nick Laird: In Yeats’s wake
- Collected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh, edited by Antoinette Quinn Buy this book
Jonathan Heawood on Adam Thorpe’s new novel
Peter Campbell: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West
Robert Irwin: The politics of Arab fiction
- Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi Buy this book
Sameer Rahim: British Muslims react to the London bombings
Contributors
Peter Barham’s most recent book, Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War, is out in paperback from Yale.
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Jonathan Heawood is writing a book about the cultural history of ley lines.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Chloe Hooper lives in Melbourne. Her novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime, is published by Vintage.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Nick Laird’s second collection of poems, On Purpose, is due in August. He lives in Rome.
Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society. His books include Free Culture and The Future of Ideas.
Sameer Rahim works at the Daily Telegraph.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
English Showalter is co-editor of the multi-volume correspondence of Françoise de Graffigny, and the author of her biography, published last year.
Iain Sinclair has edited London, City of Disappearances, which will be published in the autumn.
Alex de Waal is programme director at the Social Science Research Council and the author, with Julie Flint, of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.
