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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 19 · 5 October 2006
Colin Burrow: John Donne in Performance
Stephen Graubard, Sean Coleman, Jasper Goss, Charles Glass, Norma Clarke, Keith Gifford
Frank Kermode: Is There a Late Style?
- On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain by Edward Said
- Late Thoughts: Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work edited by Karen Painter and Thomas Crow Buy this book
Michael Dobson: How to Be a Favourite
- Literature and Favouritism in Early Modern England by Curtis Perry Buy this book
Stephen Holmes on the incoherent thinking behind US foreign policy
- After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads by Francis Fukuyama Buy this book
Thomas Sugrue: Civil Rights v. Black Power
- Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault Buy this book
James Campbell on Nella Larsen
- In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Colour Line by George Hutchinson Buy this book
Paul Myerscough watches Zidane at work
Eleanor Birne on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tessa Hadley on Kiran Desai
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Richard Gott: Unlucky Wavell
- Wavell: Soldier and Statesman by Victoria Schofield Buy this book
David Simpson on emigration from Nazi Germany
- Weimar in Exile: The Anti-Fascist Emigration in Europe and America by Jean-Michel Palmier, translated by David Fernbach Buy this book
Matthew Kelly: Irish Wartime Neutrality
- The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939-45 by Brian Girvin Buy this book
Susan Pedersen: Young Women at Work Between the Wars
- Young Women, Work and Family in England 1918-50 by Selina Todd Buy this book
Michael Taussig in Colombia
Contributors
Eleanor Birne lives in London.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
James Campbell’s biography of James Baldwin, Talking at the Gates, has recently been reissued in the US.
Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.
Richard Gott has written several books about Latin America, including Cuba: A New World.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. A collection of stories, Sunstroke, and a novel, The Master Bedroom, were published last year.
Stephen Holmes teaches at New York University School of Law. His most recent book is The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror.
Matthew Kelly lectures in history at the University of Southampton. His first book, The Fenian Ideal and Irish Nationalism 1882-1916, came out this year.
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.
Jamie McKendrick edited the Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems. His collections include Ink Stone, Sky Nails and The Marble Fly.
Paul Myerscough is an editor at the London Review.
Susan Pedersen teaches British and European history and political thought at Columbia University.
David Simpson teaches English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern will come out from Cambridge next year.
Thomas Sugrue, Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of a history of civil rights in 20th-century America, due later this year.
Michael Taussig teaches anthropology at Columbia and writes regularly on Colombia. His books include My Cocaine Museum and Law in a Lawless Land.
