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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 on the Independent and has been visiting Iraq since 1977. Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq was published in April.
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 Villages of Vision is published in a revised edition this month.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
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 has been given this year’s E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Family Romance, is out in paperback.
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. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
Tom Shippey’s most recent book is a collection of his papers on Tolkien, Roots and Branches; an anthology, The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous, has just won the Mythopoeic Society’s Scholarship Award for 2008.
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 lives in London.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
