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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 19 · 6 October 2005
Andrew O’Hagan travels to New Orleans
Tony Barrell, Richard Guy, Alasdair Mackenzie, Adrian Tahourdin, David Elstein, Colin Armstrong, Peter Davidson and Joanna Kavenna, Willie Thompson, Jonathan Cook, Yisreal Medad, Ira Katznelson
Frank Kermode on Zadie Smith
Thomas Jones on Uzodinma Iweala’s ‘Beasts of No Nation’
Theo Tait on Salman Rushdie
- Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Jessica Olin on Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Prep’
John Christensen: Pinochet’s Millions
- Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System by Raymond Baker Buy this book
Paul Laity on worst case scenarios
David Stevenson on writing European history
- The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-33 by Zara Steiner
Christopher Turner on Freud’s Free Clinics
- Freud’s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 1918-38 by Elizabeth Ann Danto Buy this book
Jerry Fodor: What is it about music?
- The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen
Matthew Reynolds on translating Cesare Pavese
Peter Campbell looks through other people’s windows
Amanda Claybaugh on the ambition of William Dean Howells
- William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life by Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson Buy this book
Bee Wilson on Mesopotamian cookery
- The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia by Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan Buy this book
Pamela Thomas takes tea with Marshal Tito
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
John Christensen directs the international secretariat of the Tax Justice Network, which is based at the New Economics Foundation in London. He is one of the authors of Tax Us If You Can: The True Story of a Global Failure.
Amanda Claybaugh teaches in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia.
Jerry Fodor is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Paul Laity edited the Left Book Club Anthology. Formerly an editor at the London Review, he now works at the Guardian.
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.
Jessica Olin lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Matthew Reynolds’s last book was The Realms of Verse; he is now reading a lot of literary translations.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
David Stevenson is a professor of international history at the LSE. His books include Armaments and the Coming of War and 1914-18: The History of the First World War.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Pamela Thomas is writing a memoir. She lives in Oxford.
Christopher Turner’s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Britain and Farrar, Straus in the US.
Bee Wilson is the author of Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee.
