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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 11 · 8 June 2006
Andrew Bacevich: The Rumsfeld Doctrine
- Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor Buy this book
Christian Wolmar, Paul Dimoldenberg, Jerome Slater, Daniel Pipes, Salah el Serafy, Alex Fox, Sabah Salih, John Jenkins, Jeremy Harte, Ramnik Shah, Virginia Prieto-Fineberg
Patrick Cockburn: On the Iranian Border
James Meek: Our Man in Guantánamo
- Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim’s Journey to Guantánamo and Back by Moazzam Begg and Victoria Brittain
Maya Jasanoff: A Reappraisal of Orientalism
- For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies by Robert Irwin
James Wood on Peter Carey’s ‘Theft’
- Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
Christopher Tayler on George Saunders
- The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
Peter Campbell on Antonello da Messina
Stephen Sedley: What to do with a prurient press?
John Lanchester on cricket’s slanging matches
Alain Supiot on the de-institutionalisation of the French
Michael Wood goes to see The Da Vinci Code
David Coward on Vichy’s commissioner for Jewish affairs
- Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil
Terry Eagleton on Marcel Mauss
- Marcel Mauss: A Biography by Marcel Fournier, translated by Jane Marie Todd Buy this book
Martin Jay on Karl Jaspers
- Karl Jaspers, a Biography: Navigations in Truth by Suzanne Kirkbright Buy this book
Tom Shippey: Anglo-Saxon Libraries
Gillian Darley: John Evelyn and his gardens
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.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent at the Independent. His pieces for the London Review and the Independent won this year’s Orwell Prize for Journalism.
David Coward is emeritus professor of French at the University of Leeds. His translation of Hedi Kaddour’s Waltenberg will be published next spring.
Gillian Darley’s biography of John Soane was published in 1999 and remains in print.
Terry Eagleton is, among other things, professor of cultural theory at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His latest book is Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate.
Maya Jasanoff teaches British and Imperial history at Harvard. Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East is out in paperback.
Martin Jay is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent work is Refractions of Violence.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
Don Paterson’s Orpheus, a version of Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus, will be published later this year. His previous collections include Landing Light, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Eyes and God’s Gift to Women.
Mark Rudman’s last collection was Sundays on the Phone; he is working on a new one, to be called On the Firing Line.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights.
Tom Shippey’s edited collection of essays on Grimm’s mythology, The Shadow-Walkers, won the Mythopoeic Society’s 2008 award for scholarship. He is working on a book about death-scenes in Old Norse.
Alain Supiot is a professor of law at the University of Nantes and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His Homo juridicus: Essai sur la fonction anthropologique du Droit will be published soon in English.
Christopher Tayler is the Guardian’s chief fiction reviewer and lives in London.
James Wood’s most recent book is How Fiction Works. He is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Michael Wood’s books include America in the Movies, The Magician’s Doubts, The Road to Delphi and, most recently, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. He teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton.
