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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 1 · 5 January 2006
Ross McKibbin: Brown v. Cameron
Donald Gillies, Paul Cheshire, Eric Lee, Ivor Potts, Paul Tickell, Jim Jenkins, Eoin Dillon, Leonard Benardo, Richard Cummings, Gillian Nelson, Charles Glass, Alan Jenkins
Michael Wood on Joan Didion
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Frank Kermode on Doubting Thomas
Nicholas Penny on Renaissance Venice
- The New Palaces of Medieval Venice by Juergen Schulz Buy this book
- Private Lives in Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown Buy this book
Thomas Jones: ‘Extraordinary Rendition’
Jenny Turner on Justine Picardie
- My Mother’s Wedding Dress: The Fabric of Our Lives by Justine Picardie
Peter Campbell on Henri Rousseau
Tessa Hadley on Helen Simpson
- Constitutional by Helen Simpson
Daniel Soar on Benjamin Kunkel
David Runciman on José Mourinho
- Mourinho: Anatomy of a Winner by Patrick Barclay
Alan Bennett: What I did in 2005
Contributors
Alan Bennett’s play Enjoy, first seen in 1980, opens at the Gielgud Theatre at the end of this month.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Landis Everson lives in San Luis Obispo, California. A collection, Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005, edited by Ben Mazer, will be published by Graywolf in the autumn.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. The Master Bedroom came out in 2007.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Pluralism and the Personality of the State, The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Jenny Turner novel, The Brainstorm, is out in paperback.
Eliot Weinberger’s recent books include What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, An Elemental Thing and The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry.
Michael Wood’s books include America in the Movies, The Magician’s Doubts, The Road to Delphi and, most recently, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. He teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton.
