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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 17 · 7 September 2006
Ross McKibbin: Can Labour survive Blair?
Eugene Goodheart, Sam Hood, Allan Tulchin, Simon Haywood, Ivan Roots, Brian Smith, Arthur Havisham, Richard Koss, Roddy Graham, C.D. Rose, Greg Dixon, Christopher Stephens
Fredric Jameson: Slavoj Žižek’s Paradoxes
Michael Newton on Ava Gardner
David Bromwich considers James Agee
- ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’, ‘A Death in the Family’, Shorter Fiction by James Agee Buy this book
- Film Writing and Selected Journalism by James Agee Buy this book
- Brooklyn Is by James Agee Buy this book
John Sturrock: Flaubert
- Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Mark Polizzotti Buy this book
- Flaubert: A Life by Frederick Brown Buy this book
Frank Kermode: Andrew Motion’s Boyhood
Patrick Wright: The view through a bus window
- Great British Bus Journeys: Travels through Unfamous Places by David McKie
Jeremy Harding: Blair’s comedy turns
Jenny Diski on the blind man who went around the world
- An Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveller by Jason Roberts
Isabel Hilton: The Destruction of Lhasa
Lawrence Rosen on how not to look at Islamic cultures
- On the Road to Kandahar: Travels through Conflict in the Islamic World by Jason Burke
Thomas Jones: Updike’s Terrorist
Philip Connors: Anthony Giardina’s new novel
Richard Hornsey on a new queer history of London
- Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis 1918-57 by Matt Houlbrook
Thomas Laqueur: My Dead Fathers
Contributors
Eleanor Birne lives in London.
David Bromwich teaches English at Yale and is the editor of a selection of Burke’s writings, On Empire, Liberty and Reform.
Ciaran Carson’s collections include Breaking News, The Twelfth of Never and a version of Dante’s Inferno.
Philip Connors lives in New Mexico.
Jenny Diski’s new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published in November. She is currently bobbing about on the South Atlantic.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Isabel Hilton, who lives in London, is the author of The Search for the Panchen Lama.
Richard Hornsey is a senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is writing a book on space, time and male homosexuality in postwar London.
Fredric Jameson teaches at Duke University. His many books include A Singular Modernity.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Ross McKibbin, a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, is the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Michael Newton is the author of Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children and a book on Kind Hearts and Coronets in the BFI Film Classics series.
Lawrence Rosen teaches anthropology at Princeton and law at Columbia Law School. A Carnegie Scholar, he is the author of The Culture of Islam and Law as Culture: An Invitation.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
John Hartley Williams has published nine collections of poetry. A new volume, The Ship, will appear from Salt in September.
Patrick Wright’s Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War, will be published in October by Oxford. The sequel, which will appear next year, is concerned with Rex Warner, Barbara Castle, Stanley Spencer, Clement Attlee, A.J. Ayer and the other British delegates who visited China in 1954, the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the People’s Republic.
