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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 18 · 21 September 2006
Tony Judt: Whatever happened to American liberalism?
Henry Farmer, Alistair Dixon, Simon Barley, Shigeru Nagai, Helen DeWitt, David Loewe, Michael Fitzgerald, Agnieszka Hodgson, Anthony Chadwick, Patrick Wright, Evalyn Segal, Raymond Clayton
T.J. Clark on Benedict Anderson
Michael Wood on Almodóvar
- Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar (2006)
Jerry Fodor on Michael Frayn
- The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn Buy this book
David Edgar: Shaw’s Surprises
Gabriel Piterberg: ‘Are you not from this country?’
Andrew O’Hagan: Fathers and Sons
John Lanchester on NASA’s new stick of dynamite
Daniel Soar: Elena Ferrante
- The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
Joanna Biggs enjoys geek lit
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Stephen Mulhall considers the Stoic life
- Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties and Fate by Tad Brennan Buy this book
Helen Deutsch on female poets of the eighteenth century
- Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre by Paula Backscheider Buy this book
David Matthews: How to Write a Fugue
- The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard 1715-50 by Joseph Kerman Buy this book
Mark Ford on T.S. Eliot
- T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet by James E. Miller
- The Annotated ‘Waste Land’ with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose by T.S. Eliot, edited by Lawrence Rainey
- Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’ by Lawrence Rainey
Agnieszka Kolakowska: My Wife-Murderer
Contributors
Joanna Biggs works at the London Review.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His book about Courbet, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, was published in 1973. His study of two Poussin landscapes, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing, is out in paperback.
Helen Deutsch teaches English at UCLA. She is the author of Loving Dr Johnson and is working on a new book on Swift.
David Edgar’s plays include The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Playing with Fire and, most recently, Testing the Echo. He is working on a book about playwriting.
Jerry Fodor teaches philosophy and psychology at Rutgers University. He is working on a book about what Darwin got wrong.
Mark Ford teaches at UCL.
Hugh Haughton’s Derek Mahon and Modern Irish Poetry will be published next year. He is working with Valerie Eliot on the letters of T.S. Eliot.
Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at New York University. He is the author of The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron and the French 20th Century and, most recently, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945.
Agnieszka Kolakowska lives in Paris, where she works as a writer and translator.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
David Matthews is writing a piece for the Nash Ensemble and a Sixth Symphony for the 2007 Proms.
Stephen Mulhall is a fellow of New College, Oxford. His books include Philosophical Myths of the Fall and Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
Gabriel Piterberg teaches at UCLA.
Alex Smith’s most recent collection is Ocean Myths.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
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.
