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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 12 · 22 June 2006
John Lanchester: Planet Wal-Mart
Hilary Mantel, Thomas Laqueur, Curtis Brown, John Beattie, Tom Burns, Alexei Yurchak
Jenny Turner: Daleks v. Cybermen
Hal Foster on Norman Foster
Jessica Olin: A.M. Homes goes west
Hugh Pennington: The Allergy Epidemic
- Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady by Mark Jackson Buy this book
W.G. Runciman: The difference between then and now
Peter Campbell: the fairground at Bankside
Paul Laity: A west-country Man U supporter speaks
Patrick Collinson: Henricentrism
- The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church by G.W. Bernard Buy this book
- Writing under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation by Greg Walker
Rosemary Hill: Poor Queen Caroline
John Connelly: Stalin’s Infantry
- Ivan’s War: The Red Army 1939-45 by Catherine Merridale Buy this book
- A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-45 edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova
Brian Jones: The Case for Nuclear Proliferation
Arash Jalali: An Iranian Blog
Thomas Jones: My Life as a Geek
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.
John Connelly teaches the history of East Central Europe at the University of California, Berkeley. He is writing a book about racism and its opponents in the Roman Catholic Church.
Hal Foster chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
David Harsent’s Selected Poems have been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. The Minotaur, his opera with Harrison Birtwistle, has just opened at the Royal Opera House.
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, has just appeared in paperback.
Arash Jalali is a software engineer who lives in Tehran. He is trying to find a way in which the LRB can pay him for his article.
Brian Jones, a visiting senior research fellow at the University of Southampton, is a former deputy director on the Defence Intelligence Staff, specialising in nuclear, biological and chemical weapons analysis. He gave evidence to the Hutton Inquiry.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Paul Laity edited the Left Book Club Anthology. Formerly an editor at the London Review, he now works at the Guardian.
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.
Jessica Olin lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
W.G. Runciman is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a former president of the General Council of British Shipping.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Jenny Turner’s The Brainstorm is out in paperback.
