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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 3 · 8 February 2007
James Meek: The Birth of al-Qaida
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaida’s Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Thomas Crow, Nicholas Penny, John Bossy, Edward Pearce, Alasdair Raffe, Mark Thompson, Tanja Jeffreys
Chalmers Johnson on ‘extraordinary rendition’
- Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Rendition Programme by Stephen Grey Buy this book
Barbara Taylor: Eighteenth-Century Surveillance Culture
Robert Irwin on the travels of Leo Africanus
Jenny Diski on ‘Second Life’
William Poole on Milton
- Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity by Gordon Teskey Buy this book
Paul Driver on Stravinsky
- Stravinsky: The Second Exile – France and America 1934-71 by Stephen Walsh Buy this book
- Down a Path of Wonder: Memoirs of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Other Cultural Figures by Robert Craft Buy this book
Andrew O’Hagan on malingering trolley dollies
Martin Puchner on Ibsen's Modernism
- Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theatre, Philosophy by Toril Moi Buy this book
Hugh Pennington on DNA sequencing
Bee Wilson eyes up Nicole Kidman
Marina Warner on literary riddles
Joanna Biggs reads Nell Freudenberger
Thant Myint-U: Are we getting it wrong?
Peter Campbell on the art of protest
Sheila Fitzpatrick remembers her father
Contributors
Joanna Biggs works at the London Review.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.
Jenny Diski’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
Paul Driver writes about music for the Sunday Times.
Sheila Fitzpatrick is currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, working on displaced persons in the British occupation zone in Germany after the Second World War.
Mark Ford teaches at UCL.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
Chalmers Johnson was a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the CIA from 1967 to 1972. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, is out this month.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
William Poole’s Milton and the Idea of the Fall came out in 2005. He is a fellow in English at New College, Oxford.
Martin Puchner teaches in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia. His most recent book is Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes.
Barbara Taylor teaches history at the University of East London. Women, Gender and Enlightenment (edited with Sarah Knott) will appear in paperback in May.
Thant Myint-U, a former fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is the author of The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma.
Marina Warner is working on a book about enchantment and The Arabian Nights, to be called Stranger Magic. She teaches at the University of Essex.
Bee Wilson is the author of Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee.
