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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 9 · 11 May 2006
Ian Hacking: What We Know about Autism
- The Science and Fiction of Autism by Laura Schreibman Buy this book
- Send in the Idiots, or How We Grew to Understand the World by Kamran Nazeer Buy this book
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Carol Brightman, Robert Leary, Tony Gould, Peter Fryer, Ruth Gavison
Thomas Nagel: A Tribute to Bernard Williams
Dan Jacobson on Irène Némirovsky’s War
- Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith
Barbara Everett on Larkin and Chandler
Peter Campbell on Joseph Gandy
David A. Bell on Salon Life in France
- The Age of Conversation by Benedetta Craveri, translated by Teresa Waugh
Colm Tóibín: Borges and the Maids
Andrew O’Hagan on the Queen
Rana Mitter: Footbinding and Its Critics
- Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding by Dorothy Ko Buy this book
Anthony Pagden on a New History of Empire
Geoffrey Best: Army-Society Relations
- Military Identities: The Regimental System, The British Army and The British People c.1870-2000 by David French Buy this book
Thomas Jones on David Mitchell
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Michael Wood on Inside Man and V for Vendetta
Rose George: Travels in the Sewers
Contributors
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
Geoffrey Best’s Churchill and War was published in 2005. He taught history at Sussex for many years.
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.
Barbara Everett’s books include Young Hamlet and Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin.
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.
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
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.
Rana Mitter teaches Chinese history and politics at Oxford, and is a fellow of St Cross College. A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World appeared in 2004.
Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays is his most recent book.
Emile Nelligan was born in Montreal in 1879 and died there in 1941.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Anthony Pagden teaches at UCLA. His most recent books are La ilustración y sus enemigos and, as editor, The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
