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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 16 · 17 August 2006
Steven Shapin: At the Grill Station
- Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
Slavoj Žižek, Robin Chapman, Eric Heinze, Alex Callinicos, Anthony Caston, Dave Boyle, Joanna Kirkpatrick, Peter McCullough, Andrew Wilton, Michael Tanner
Charles Glass on Hizbullah
Sameer Rahim reports from Damascus
Michael Byers on the limits of self-defence
Denis Feeney: Ovid’s Revenge
- Ovid: The Poems of Exile: ‘Tristia’ and the ‘Black Sea Letters’ translated by Peter Green Buy this book
- Ovid: Epistulae ex Ponto, Book I edited and translated by Jan Felix Gaertner Buy this book
Michael Wood slums it with Miami Vice
Richard Lloyd Parry: An Outsider in Tokyo
- The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 by Donald Richie, edited by Leza Lowitz Buy this book
R.W. Johnson on the shortcomings of Neville Chamberlain
Andrew O’Hagan on Scotland's hirsute folk hero
Mark Kishlansky on the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution
- Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms by Tim Harris Buy this book
- Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy 1685-1720 by Tim Harris
Ian Hacking on clinical classifications
Peter Barham: Madness in the nineteenth century
- Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England 1820-60 by Akihito Suzuki Buy this book
Iain Sinclair: On the Promenade
Christopher Tayler on Nordic crime fiction
- The Priest of Evil by Matti-Yrjänä Joensuu, translated by David Hackston Buy this book
- Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, translated by Lois Roth Buy this book
- Borkmann’s Point by Håkan Nesser, translated by Laurie Thompson Buy this book
- The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett Buy this book
- Voices by Arnaldur Indridason, translated by Bernard Scudder
Peter Campbell on Rembrandt
Tessa Hadley reads Deborah Eisenberg
- Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
August Kleinzahler: The Doomsday Boys
Contributors
John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air won the 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize. The first volume of his collected poems will be published by the Library of America.
Peter Barham’s most recent book, Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War, is out in paperback from Yale.
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Denis Feeney teaches classics at Princeton. His most recent book is Caesar’s Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History.
Charles Glass’s latest book is Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation, 1940-44.
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. The Master Bedroom came out in 2007.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Mark Kishlansky is the Baird Professor of History at Harvard. He is working on a study of the reign of Charles I.
August Kleinzahler is the author of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the forthcoming Music: I-LXXIV, Collected Music Writings from Pressed Wafer in Boston.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
Richard Lloyd Parry is the Asia editor of the Times, based in Tokyo. His book about Indonesia and East Timor, In the Time of Madness, is out in paperback.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
Sameer Rahim works at the Daily Telegraph.
Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation was published last autumn.
Iain Sinclair’s Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, a documentary fiction, appeared earlier this year.
Christopher Tayler is the Guardian’s chief fiction reviewer and lives in London.
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.
