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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 8 · 26 April 2007
Mahmood Mamdani, Elliott Green, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, David Lane, Andrew Scheuber, Alexander Scrimgeour, Louis Harovitz, Peter Loptson, M.F. Burnyeat, Michael Prior, Kathleen Bell
Colin Kidd: The Scottish Elections
Christopher Tayler: Among the New Tories
Jeremy Harding: The Banlieues Go to the Polls
Brian Dillon: Gardens in Wartime
- Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth Helphand Buy this book
Michael Wood sees 300
- 300 directed by Zack Snyder (2006)
Adam Phillips: Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost
- The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn Buy this book
John Sturrock: Plain Sailing
Eric Hobsbawm: Communism in Britain
- The Lost World of British Communism by Raphael Samuel Buy this book
- Communists and British Society 1920-91 by Kevin Morgan, Gidon Cohen and Andrew Flinn Buy this book
- Bolshevism and the British Left, Part One: Labour Legends and Russian Gold by Kevin Morgan Buy this book
R.W. Johnson on Michael Foot
Colm Tóibín on Ian McEwan
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Peter Campbell: Rampant Weeds
Deborah Friedell on Graham Swift
Peter Howarth on R.S. Thomas
- The Man who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas by Byron Rogers
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Billy Collins, a former US poet laureate, is the author of The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems.
Brian Dillon is the author of a memoir, In the Dark Room, and the UK editor of Cabinet. He is working on Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriacal Lives.
Deborah Friedell is an editor at the London Review.
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.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Eric Hobsbawm’s most recent book is Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism.
Peter Howarth teaches at Queen Mary, University of London and is the author of British Poetry in the Age of Modernism.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.
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.
Ben Rawlence is working on a book about Zanzibar.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
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.
