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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 22 · 17 November 2005
Rick Perlstein: Hanoi Jane
- Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Anti-war Icon by Mary Hershberger Buy this book
William Livesey, Tony Neville, John Horsbrugh-Porter, John Alpe, Sean Gallagher, Derek Robinson, Nicholas Pole, Will Stevens, Christopher Prendergast
Neal Ascherson: Europe since the War
Andrew Nathan: How bad was Mao?
- Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Samuel Palmer’s dream landscapes
Stefan Collini: Edmund Wilson
- Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney Buy this book
Emily Wilson: Can heroes hesitate and still be heroic?
Norman Dombey: Iraq, Uranium and Forged Intelligence
August Kleinzahler: James Schuyler
- Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-91 edited by William Corbett Buy this book
Thomas Jones on Margaret Atwood
- The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Edward Luttwak on ancient combat
- Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J.E. Lendon Buy this book
R.W. Johnson: Bill Deedes’s Decency
Jenny Diski: At home with the Mellys
Colin Kidd: The American Revolution
- 1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough Buy this book
Nicholas Guyatt: George Washington’s Reticence
Contributors
Neal Ascherson’s books include The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea. He is an honorary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
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.
Stefan Collini’s Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain has just appeared in paperback.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
Norman Dombey is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World, about Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire. She is working on a book about human waste.
Nicholas Guyatt, until recently an associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, is moving to the University of York next month. Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World appeared earlier this year.
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.
Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Edward Luttwak is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. His books include The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire and, more recently, Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace.
Bill Manhire directs the creative writing programme at Victoria University in Wellington. His newest book of poems is Lifted.
Andrew Nathan is the Class of 1919 Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia. He co-edited The Tiananmen Papers and is the author, with Bruce Gilley, of China’s New Rulers.
Rick Perlstein lives in Chicago. He is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus.
Emily Wilson teaches classics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her latest book is The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint.
