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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 8 · 20 April 2006
Hilary Mantel: The People’s Robespierre
- Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr
Alan Dershowitz, Frank Solomon, Caroline and Nathan Finkelstein, Yair Evron, Robert Pfaltzgraff, Marion Woolfson, Renee Slater, Jeremy Schreiber, John Gretton, Tom Wengraf, Joseph Palley, Michael Grenfell, Yitzhak Laor, Kenneth Cuno, Eric Hobsbawm, Justin Smith, Jeremy Harding, Elliott Mills, Madeleine St John, Daniel Schiller, Amy Beckett, Anne Hollander
John Bossy: The Death of Girolamo Savonarola
- Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines Buy this book
- The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope by Desmond Seward Buy this book
Thomas Lynch: MacSwiggan’s Ashes
- Committed to the Cleansing Flame: The Development of Cremation in 19th-Century England by Brian Parsons
Steven Shapin: A Wakefull and Civill Drink
- The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffee House by Brian Cowan Buy this book
- Coffee House: A Cultural History by Markman Ellis
Ilan Pappe on the Israeli election and the ‘demographic problem’
Bruce Robbins on Pierre Bourdieu
Jacqueline Rose: On Being Nadine Gordimer
Thomas Jones: An X-Rated Version of Postman Pat
Dinah Birch: Anglicising the Holy Land
- The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism by Eitan Bar-Yosef Buy this book
Peter Campbell on Modernist Design
Andrew Bacevich: America’s Forgotten General
- Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism by Jack McCallum Buy this book
Amit Chaudhuri: Tagore’s Modernism
- Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri Buy this book
August Kleinzahler on Roy Fisher
- The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 by Roy Fisher Buy this book
Daniel Soar: The Photographic Novel
Emilie Bickerton on the films of Chris Marker
- Chris Marker: Memories of the Future by Catherine Lupton Buy this book
Sherry Turkle: Tamagotchi Love
Contributors
Andrew Bacevich teaches history and international relations at Boston University. He is the author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War.
Emilie Bickerton is on the editorial board of New Left Review.
Dinah Birch is the author of Our Victorian Education. She teaches at Liverpool University and is the general editor of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
August Kleinzahler is the author of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the forthcoming Music: I-LXXIV, Collected Music Writings from Pressed Wafer in Boston.
Thomas Lynch is a writer and funeral director. Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans came out last year.
Hilary Mantel’s most recent novel is Wolf Hall.
Ilan Pappe is chair of the history department at the University of Exeter and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine came out in 2007.
Bruce Robbins, the author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, teaches English at Rutgers.
Jacqueline Rose is a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices.
Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation was published last autumn.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit.
Robert VanderMolen lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Breath appeared in 2000.
