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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 1 · 4 January 2007
Alan Bennett kick starts his career
Jennifer Verner, John Barrell, John Lawton, Robert Morgan, Neal Ascherson, Eric Hobsbawm, James Wood, Jason Webb, Charles Glass, Park Honan, Joanna Zgadzaj
Nicholas Penny: How the Getty spends its money
- Guide to the Getty Villa by Kenneth Lapatin et al Buy this book
- History of the Art of Antiquity by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave Buy this book
- The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing by T.J. Clark Buy this book
Michael Wood: The Amazing Thomas Pynchon
- Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Daniel Soar: What’s got into Martin Amis?
- House of Meetings by Martin Amis
Corey Robin: Careerism and Hannah Arendt
- Why Arendt Matters by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Buy this book
- Hannah Arendt: The Jewish Writings edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron Feldman Buy this book
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt Buy this book
Tariq Ali: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US
Thomas Jones: Michael Crichton’s Revenge
James Wood on Thomas Hardy
- Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin
Colm Tóibín: The Ghastly Paul Bowles
Jeremy Harding on Jacques Chirac’s museum
Adam Phillips on Paul Muldoon
Denis Feeney: Virgil’s Progress
- Virgil: Georgics translated by Peter Fallon, notes by Elaine Fantham
- Virgil: The Aeneid translated by Robert Fagles
Frank Kermode on the Nativity
Christopher Thompson: Angola and the Oil
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s new book, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, will be published by Simon and Schuster in September.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Denis Feeney teaches classics at Princeton. His most recent book is Caesar’s Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
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.
Ruth Padel’s The Poem and the Journey is out from Chatto.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
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.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Christopher Thompson is a correspondent for Reuters in South Africa.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
