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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?
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
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 latest book, Protocols of the Elders of Sodom and Other Essays, will be published by Verso this summer.
Alan Bennett’s play Enjoy, first seen in 1980, opens at the Gielgud Theatre at the end of this month.
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 LRB’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
August Kleinzahler is the author of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the forthcoming Music: I-LXXIV, Collected Music Writings from Pressed Wafer in Boston.
Ruth Padel, whose most recent book is Darwin: A Life in Poems, is resident poet at Somerset House.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Adam Phillips is the author of Going Sane and Side Effects, among other books. On Kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is out now.
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 a visiting writer at Princeton. His novels include The South, The Heather Blazing, The Master and Brooklyn, which has just been published.
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.
James Wood’s most recent book is How Fiction Works. He is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
