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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 20 · 20 October 2005
Bernard Porter: The Falklands War
- The Official History of the Falklands Campaign: Vol. I: The Origins of the Falklands War by Lawrence Freedman Buy this book
- The Official History of the Falklands Campaign: Vol. II: War and Diplomacy by Lawrence Freedman Buy this book
Fatema Ahmed, Alex Smith, Richard Scott, David Runciman, Roger House, J.M.W. Scott, Mary Elkins, Nicholas von Maltzahn, Ken Seigneurie
Michael Dobson on Shakespeare’s working habits
James Wood: How serious is John Bayley?
Anatol Lieven: America and its Army
Ian Gilmour on the Tory Leadership
Michael Wood on Stanley Cavell
- Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow by Stanley Cavell Buy this book
Eric Hobsbawm on the Jewish Emancipation
Thomas Jones: How to concoct a conspiracy theory
Tessa Hadley on Dan Jacobson
Peter Campbell: Edvard Munch’s troubles
Peter D. McDonald on J.M. Coetzee
- J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event by Derek Attridge Buy this book
- Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee Buy this book
Colin Burrow on John McGahern
E.S. Turner: The Ocean Greyhounds
Patrick Cockburn: Civil War in Baghdad
Contributors
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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.
Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.
Paul Farley’s Tramp in Flames will be published by Picador next autumn. He won the 2005 Forward Prize for the best single poem published last year.
Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died on 21 September 2007.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. A collection of stories, Sunstroke, and a novel, The Master Bedroom, were published last year.
Eric Hobsbawm’s most recent book is Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Anatol Lieven reported from Moscow for the Times from 1990 to 1996 and is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. His latest book is Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World.
Peter D. McDonald teaches English at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is working on a book about literature in post-apartheid South Africa.
Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
