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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’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
Sheila Fitzpatrick is currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, working on displaced persons in the British occupation zone in Germany after the Second World War.
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 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
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 latest book is The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer.
Adam Phillips is the author of Going Sane and Side Effects, among other books. On Kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is out now.
Bernard Porter, who lives in Sweden, is the author of The Lion’s Share: A Short History of British Imperialism.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
David Simpson is G.B. Needham Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California at Davis. His books include 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration and, most recently, Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity.
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.
