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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 7 · 5 April 2007
Colm Tóibín: Drinking with Samuel Beckett
Gérard Prunier, Matthew Moore, Sean Coleman, Jannie Armstrong, David Rubenstein, Charlie Beckett, Howard Millbank, Eric Metcalfe, Richard Tagart, Axel Harvey, Jack Harris
Bernard Porter: How bad was Stanley?
- Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal Buy this book
Maya Jasanoff: Governing Iraq
- Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart
James Buchan: The Scottish Enlightenment
- The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in 18th-Century Britain, Ireland and America by Richard Sher Buy this book
Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Edith Wharton’s Domestic Arrangements
Susan Eilenberg: Being Lord Byron
Fredric Jameson: Japan-ness
- Japan-ness in Architecture by Arata Isozaki, translated by Sabu Kohso Buy this book
John Lanchester: Climate Change
Peter Campbell on Ove Arup
- Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the 20th Century by Peter Jones Buy this book
Charles Reeve on Clement Greenberg
- Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg by Alice Goldfarb Marquis Buy this book
Donald MacKenzie: A Ratchet
Peter Campbell: John White’s New World
Norman Dombey: America’s Poodle
- The Future of the UK’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: The White Paper, Cm. 6994
- The Future of the UK’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: The White Paper. Ninth Report, House of Commons Defence Committee, HC 225-I
Paul Myerscough on The Trap
Neal Ascherson: Scotophobia
Contributors
Neal Ascherson’s latest book is Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He was the Observer correspondent in Bonn from 1963 to 1968.
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.
Norman Dombey is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
Susan Eilenberg teaches in the English department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Fredric Jameson teaches at Duke University. His many books include A Singular Modernity.
Maya Jasanoff teaches British and Imperial history at Harvard. Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East is out in paperback.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Donald MacKenzie teaches sociology at the University of Edinburgh. His research on credit derivatives is being supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.
Paul Myerscough is an editor at the London Review.
Bernard Porter, who lives in Sweden, is the author of The Lion’s Share: A Short History of British Imperialism.
Charles Reeve is a curator at the Ontario College of Art and Design, where he also teaches in the faculties of liberal studies and art.
Neil Rollinson’s Demolition will be published by Cape in September.
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.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell teaches at Yale. Her new edition of The Golden Bowl is just out from Penguin.
