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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 10 · 25 May 2006
Nicholas Spice: The Trouble with Philip Roth’s ‘Everyman’
Donald Baker, Philip Zelikow, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Roger Jones
Gillian White: The Tentativeness of Elizabeth Bishop
Ross McKibbin: Why Brown should Resign
Peter Campbell on Gentile Bellini
Jenny Diski: Shirley Porter’s Story
- Nothing like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken Buy this book
Bernard Porter on the Central African Federation
- British Documents on the End of Empire Series B Volume 9: Central Africa: Part I: Closer Association 1945-58 by Philip Murphy
- British Documents on the End of Empire Series B Volume 9: Central Africa: Part II: Crisis and Dissolution 1959-65 by Philip Murphy
Sheila Fitzpatrick: SovietSpeak
- Everything Was For Ever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak Buy this book
Daniel Soar: What Ahmadinejad Meant
David Simpson: War and the Built Environment
- The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan
Colin Jones on Voltaire’s Loneliness
- Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson Buy this book
- Le Monde des salons by Antoine Lilti
Barbara Newman: The Songs of the Medieval Troubadours
- Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours by Antoine Lilti
- Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads and Carols edited by John Hirsh Buy this book
- An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman’s Song edited by Anne Klinck
Adam Phillips: Why do we give reasons?
- Why? What Happens When People Give Reasons . . . and Why by Charles Tilly Buy this book
Theo Tait on Alan Warner
- The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven by Alan Warner
John Sutherland: Do books have a future?
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
Sheila Fitzpatrick teaches at the University of Chicago. She is the editor (with Stuart Macintyre) of Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian History and Politics.
Colin Jones is a professor of history at Warwick University. He is the author of The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002). His latest book, Paris: Biography of a City, has just appeared in paperback.
Walid Khazendar was awarded the Palestine Prize for Poetry in 1997.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.
Barbara Newman is John Evans Professor of Latin at Northwestern University. Frauenlob’s Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and His Masterpiece is forthcoming.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
David Simpson teaches English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern will come out from Cambridge next year.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Nicholas Spice is the publisher of the LRB.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Gillian White teaches at Princeton. She is working on a book about Elizabeth Bishop and contemporary American poetics.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.
