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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 20 · 19 October 2006
Michael Gilsenan: The Haj
- A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage by Abdellah Hammoudi, translated by Pascale Ghazaleh Buy this book
Robert Boyers, Harold Jaffe, Richard Wood, Russell Seitz, Evert Sprinchorn, Jeffrey Boss, Anthony Julius, Aram Saroyan, Anthony Cummins, Roger Jones
Hal Foster on Richard Rogers
- Richard Rogers: Architecture of the Future by Kenneth Powell Buy this book
- Richard Rogers: Complete Works, Vol. III by Kenneth Powell Buy this book
Corey Robin: In the Name of Security
- The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David Johnson Buy this book
- Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security by David Cole and James Dempsey Buy this book
- General Ashcroft: Attorney at War by Nancy Baker Buy this book
- State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration by James Risen Buy this book
- Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush by Eric Boehlert Buy this book
Thomas Jones: Jonathan Raban
Amanda Claybaugh: Claire Messud
- The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
Michael Wood looks back on the films of Carol Reed
Kim Phillips-Fein: Remembering Reagan
- President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination by Richard Reeves Buy this book
Daniel Soar on the vexed issue of Labour Party funding
Ian Gilmour on the Profumo Case
- Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir by David Profumo Buy this book
Rosemary Hill: Coming Out
- Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes by Fiona MacCarthy Buy this book
Mary Ann Caws reads Roland Penrose’s notebooks
- Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose by Elizabeth Cowling Buy this book
Dinah Birch: The Story of an English Family
- Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and Their Circle 1820-1960 by Gillian Sutherland Buy this book
Peter Campbell on Holbein
G.S. Smith: The Intellectuals Who Left the USSR
- The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia by Lesley Chamberlain
Terry Eagleton lambasts Richard Dawkins
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Anneke Van Woudenberg: Congo
Contributors
Dinah Birch’s new book, Our Victorian Education, will be published later this year.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Mary Ann Caws has a short illustrated biography of Salvador Dalí coming in June and a cooking memoir about living in Provence coming in November.
Amanda Claybaugh teaches in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He teaches at University College London.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died on 21 September 2007.
Michael Gilsenan is professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. His books include Lords of the Lebanese Marches.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Kim Phillips-Fein teaches at New York University.
Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea.
G.S. Smith is a former professor of Russian at Oxford and an emeritus fellow of New College. D.S.Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939 came out in 2000.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Anneke Van Woudenberg is a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
