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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 21 · 2 November 2006
Neal Ascherson: The Silence of Günter Grass
- Beim Häuten der Zwiebel by Günter Grass
Roger Owen, James Francke, Tony Judt, Malcolm Deas, A.C. Grayling, Mary Evans, Michael Steinberg, Christopher Hampton, James Carmichael, Anna Smith, Helen Deutsch, Michael Rosen, Richard Morris, Sara Haslam, Michael Gilsenan, Colin Burrow
David Runciman: Blair v. Brown
Stefan Collini: How to Get on in the Literary World
- Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 by Philip Waller
Peter Campbell on Adam Elsheimer
James Wood: St Aubyn’s Savage Sentences
- Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn
Colin Burrow: M.J. Hyland’s Creepy Adolescents
Ed Harriman: On the Take in Iraq, Part 3
John Sturrock: John Reid tries to out-Blunkett Blunkett
Henry Day: Up Country with Xenophon
- The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand by Robin Lane Fox Buy this book
- The Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon, translated by Robin Waterfield Buy this book
- Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield Buy this book
- The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination by Tim Rood
Jonathan Lear: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Virtues
Stephen Sedley: The Governor Eyre Affair
- A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law by R.W. Kostal Buy this book
Anthony Pagden: Spain v. England
Daniel Heller-Roazen: The Story of Yiddish
- Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750 edited by Jerold Frakes Buy this book
- Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature by Jean Baumgarten, edited and translated by Jerold Frakes Buy this book
- The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture by David Fishman Buy this book
- Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture by Jeffrey Shandler Buy this book
John Lanchester: Blogswarms
Contributors
Neal Ascherson’s latest book is Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He was the Observer correspondent in Bonn from 1963 to 1968.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and the editor of the Penguin Metaphysical Poetry.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics. He teaches at Cambridge.
Henry Day is writing his doctoral dissertation on Lucan, Seneca and the sublime at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was only recently an intern at the LRB.
Ed Harriman is a journalist and television documentary film-maker.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are published by Faber.
Daniel Heller-Roazen is the author of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Jonathan Lear, the author of Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, teaches philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Jamie McKendrick’s last book of poems was Crocodiles and Obelisks. The Embrace, his translation of Valerio Magrelli’s poems, will be published by Faber.
Anthony Pagden teaches at UCLA. His most recent books are La ilustración y sus enemigos and, as editor, The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Pluralism and the Personality of the State, The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Hugo Williams’s latest collection is Dear Room.
James Wood’s most recent book is How Fiction Works. He is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
