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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 23 · 30 November 2006
Pankaj Mishra in Shanghai
Ian Birchall, Guido Franzinetti, Anthony Fry, Julian Preece, William Whyte, Jim Stewart, John Hodgson, Jenny Chamier Grove, Joy Matkowski, Martin Ward, Gordon Petherbridge, Alex Drace-Francis, Bill Sanderson
Terry Eagleton stands up for stereotyping
- Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality by Ewen and Ewen Buy this book
Inigo Thomas: Ass-Chewing in Washington
John Barrell on Hitchens on Paine
Alex de Waal at the Darfur Peace Talks
James Buchan on Thatcherism
Jeremy Harding: Shot At Dawn
Christopher Tayler on Richard Ford
- The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Christopher Turner on Freud’s fan club
- Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones by Brenda Maddox
Peter Campbell explores Bloomsbury
Steven Shapin: Does Medicine Work?
- Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton
John Whitfield on selfish genes
- Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers Buy this book
John Demos on sensory history
- Sensory Worlds in Early America by Peter Charles Hoffer Buy this book
Jenny Diski: The Friendly Spider Programme
Contributors
John Barrell has coedited, with Jon Mee, an eight-volume edition of political trials of the 1790s for Pickering and Chatto. He teaches at the University of York.
James Buchan’s books include Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money, Crowded with Genius and, most recently, Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
John Demos is the author of several books about colonial America, and is completing a study of witch-hunts. He teaches at Yale.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about anthropomorphism; her new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published next month by Virago.
Terry Eagleton’s books include Literary Theory, After Theory and – this month – Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics.
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.
Pankaj Mishra’s most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Beyond.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Inigo Thomas’s profile of Barack Obama appears in this month’s Esquire.
Adam Thorpe’s fifth collection of poems, Birds with a Broken Wing, is due in May.
Christopher Turner’s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Britain and Farrar, Straus in the US.
Alex de Waal is programme director at the Social Science Research Council and the author, with Julie Flint, of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War.
John Welch lives in London. The Eastern Boroughs appeared in 2004.
John Whitfield is the author of In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy and the Unity of Nature. He lives in London.
