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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 Buy this book
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 Buy this book
Peter Campbell on Rembrandt
Tessa Hadley reads 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 has recently published two books on the Middle East, The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in France during the German occupation.
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. A collection of stories, Sunstroke, and a novel, The Master Bedroom, were published last year.
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, who teaches at Harvard, is the author, with David Cannadine, of Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714. He is working on a study of the reign of Charles I.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
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 The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Sameer Rahim works at the Daily Telegraph.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances appeared last year. Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire, a documentary fiction, will come out in 2009.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
