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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 13 · 6 July 2006
Michael Wood: Freud’s Guesswork
Christopher May, Alex Smith, Jonathan Baines, Stan Smith, David Wasserstein, Jonathan Green, Benedetta Craveri, Phil Edwards, Karel Thein, Eric Brewe
John Barrell: John Wilkes Betrayed
- John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur Cash
Rashid Khalidi: The Challenge to Hamas
Adam Kuper on ritual killings in southern Africa
- Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis by Colin Murray and Peter Sanders Buy this book
Ferdinand Mount: Mosley’s Lost Deposit
- Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism by Stephen Dorril
- Hurrah for the Blackshirts! Fascists and Fascism between the Wars by Martin Pugh Buy this book
Andrew O’Hagan: In Pursuit of Michael Jackson
Peter Campbell: Howard Hodgkin
Rosemary Hill goes to Stonehenge for the solstice
Wendy Lesser: H.L. Mencken
- Mencken: The American Iconoclast by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Jeremy Adler on Winifred Wagner
- Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth by Brigitte Hamann, translated by Alan Bance
Patrick Cockburn: Another spurious turning point in Iraq
Richard J. Evans: Murder in 18th-century Hamburg
- Liaisons Dangereuses: Sex, Law and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great by Mary Lindemann
John Foot on the Great Italian Football Scandal
Graham Robb on the history of the bicycle
Elizabeth Lowry on Monica Ali
- Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
Anna Neistat: In Chechnya
Contributors
Jeremy Adler is a senior research fellow at King’s College London. His edition of Elias Canetti’s Aufzeichnungen für Marie-Louise appeared in 2005.
John Barrell has coedited, with Jon Mee, an eight-volume edition of political trials of the 1790s for Pickering and Chatto. He teaches at the University of York.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.
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.
Richard J. Evans’s Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years has been reissued with a new afterword. He is a professor of history at Cambridge.
John Foot is a professor of history at University College London.
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, which won the James Tait Black biography prize, is now in paperback.
Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia, is the author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood.
Adam Kuper, whose most recent book is The Reinvention of Primitive Society, is a professor of anthropology at Brunel University.
Wendy Lesser is the editor of the Threepenny Review. A novel, The Pagoda in the Garden, appeared last autumn.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, will be published by Quercus in July.
Ferdinand Mount’s Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes is out soon.
Anna Neistat is emergencies researcher for Human Rights Watch and the author of many reports on Chechnya. All names in the article have been changed to protect witnesses’ identities.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud. His most recent book is The Discovery of France.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Henry Shukman’s novella Sandstorm recently won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award.
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.
