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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 22 · 16 November 2006
Eric Hobsbawm: Budapest 1956
- Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Michael Korda Buy this book
- Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 by Victor Sebestyen Buy this book
- A Good Comrade: Janos Kadar, Communism and Hungary by Roger Gough Buy this book
- Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati Buy this book
Joe Morison, Nina Fyfield, Michael Wong, Martin Holladay, Sybil Oldfield, Eileen Lottman, James Wood, John Coutts, Charlie Gere, John Stubbs, Colin Burrow, Sean Coleman, Michael Taussig, Geoff Weston
Frank Kermode remembers William Empson
- William Empson. Vol. II: Against the Christians by John Haffenden Buy this book
David A. Bell on Talleyrand
- Napoleon’s Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand by David Lawday Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Velázquez
David Blackbourn on Prussia
- Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark
Michael Hofmann: The Strangeness of Robert Walser
- Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-32 by Robert Walser, edited and translated by Christopher Middleton Buy this book
Andrew O’Hagan takes a journey to citizenship
Mark Ford on Donald Justice
Anatol Lieven remembers the Cold War
Ferdinand Mount on the Fifties
- Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy
R.W. Johnson on Mark Thatcher
- Thatcher’s Fortunes: The Life and Times of Mark Thatcher by Mark Hollingsworth and Paul Halloran Buy this book
- The Wonga Coup: The British Mercenary Plot to Seize Oil Billions in Africa by Adam Roberts
Melanie McFadyean on suicides in immigration detention
Tariq Ali in Turkish Kurdistan
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s latest book, Protocols of the Elders of Sodom and Other Essays, will be published by Verso this summer.
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
David Blackbourn, whose Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany was reviewed in the LRB by Neal Ascherson, teaches history at Harvard.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Mark Ford teaches at UCL.
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.
Eric Hobsbawm lives in London and in 2009 completes 50 years of writing books on history. Primitive Rebels was published in 1959; his most recent is Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Anatol Lieven reported from Moscow for the Times from 1990 to 1996 and is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. His latest book is Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World.
Melanie McFadyean, a freelance journalist, has written about asylum and immigration for the Guardian and works part-time at City University’s Department of Journalism.
Ferdinand Mount’s Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes is out soon.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
John Hartley Williams’s retrospective collection, The Ship, was published in 2007. A new collection, Café des Artistes, will be published this month.
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.
