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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 5 · 9 March 2006
Hilary Mantel: A Brutal Childhood
Christopher Prendergast, Terence Kelly, Evan Riley, Gordon Poole, Ian Birchall, Raymond Clayton, Gerry Harrison, Richard Cummings, J.A. Bosworth
Charles Nicholl on the trail of Arthur Cravan
Charles Glass: What Osama Said
- The Secret History of al-Qaida by Abdel Bari Atwan Buy this book
- Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer Buy this book
- Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden edited by Bruce Lawrence, translated by James Howarth Buy this book
- Osama: The Making of a Terrorist by Jonathan Randal Buy this book
John Gardner: Securitania
- Rhetoric and the Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning by Neil MacCormick Buy this book
Eric Hobsbawm on J.D. Bernal
Thomas Jones: Cheney’s Cavalier Way with a Shotgun
Theo Tait on James Lasdun
Terry Eagleton: Fredric Jameson’s Futures
- Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson
Daniel Soar: Not a Disaster Novel
David Wootton: The Terrors of the Night
- At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime by Roger Ekirch
- Saving the Daylight: Why We Put the Clocks Forward by David Prerau Buy this book
Hal Foster on David Smith
Sameer Rahim on Jamal Mahjoub
Maya Jasanoff on Richard Burton
- The Highly Civilised Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World by Dane Kennedy Buy this book
Ian Sansom on Johnny Cash
- The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend by Steve Turner Buy this book
- Walk the Line directed by James Mangold (2005)
Tariq Ali: Libya during the Cartoon Controversy
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s new book, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, will be published by Simon and Schuster in September.
Gerald Dawe’s most recent collection is Lake Geneva (2003). He is currently a visiting professor at Boston College.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
John Gardner is the professor of jurisprudence at Oxford and Georges Lurcy Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.
Charles Glass has recently published two books on the Middle East, The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in France during the German occupation.
Eric Hobsbawm’s most recent book is Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism.
Maya Jasanoff teaches British and Imperial history at Harvard. Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East is out in paperback.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
Charles Nicholl’s most recent book is The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street.
Sameer Rahim works at the Daily Telegraph.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
John Hartley Williams’s most recent collection is The Ship. A new volume of poems will appear in the spring.
David Wootton’s Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates will be published by Oxford in June. He teaches early modern history at the University of York, where he is an Anniversary Professor.
