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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 2 · 25 January 2007
Perry Anderson: Why Putin?
Sue Rabbitt Roff, Sam Abrams, John Lovering, Lammert de Jong, Richard Tugwell, Rupert Haigh, Eugene Goodheart, Raymond Clayton, Chris Harman, Jeremy Harding, Rachel Ware, Thomas Jones
Christopher Tayler on being a le Carré bore
- The Mission Song by John le Carré
Philip Connors on Cormac McCarthy
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Michael Wood goes to see Babel
- Babel directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (2006)
Tessa Hadley on Alice Munro
Alison Light: Window-Smashing Suffragettes
- Rebel Girls: Their Fight for the Vote by Jill Liddington Buy this book
John Lanchester: The Rise and Rise of Spam
Susan Pedersen: Loving Lloyd George
Denis Donoghue on T.S. Eliot
Stephen Mulhall on John Hyman’s objective eye
- The Objective Eye: Colour, Form and Reality in the Theory of Art by John Hyman Buy this book
Charles Tripp: Iraq’s Shadow State
Peter Campbell: Mapping London
Norman Dombey: Don’t Do It
Rubén Gallo: Mexico’s Shadow Presidency
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Philip Connors lives in New Mexico.
Norman Dombey is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
Denis Donoghue teaches English, Irish and American literature at New York University. His recent books include Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot (2000) and The American Classics (2005).
Rubén Gallo’s Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution won the MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for 2006. He teaches at Princeton.
Peter Gizzi’s collections of poetry include Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart and Periplum and Other Poems. His new collection, The Outernationale, will be published this spring.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. The Master Bedroom came out in 2007.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Alison Light teaches English at Newcastle. Mrs Woolf and the Servants came out last summer.
Stephen Mulhall is a fellow of New College, Oxford. His books include Philosophical Myths of the Fall and Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard.
Susan Pedersen teaches British and European history and political thought at Columbia University.
Christopher Tayler is the Guardian’s chief fiction reviewer and lives in London.
Charles Tripp teaches Middle Eastern politics at SOAS. The third edition of A History of Iraq was published last year.
John Welch lives in London. The Eastern Boroughs appeared in 2004.
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.
