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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
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 published by Faber.
Eric Hobsbawm lives in London and in 2009 completes 50 years of writing books on history. Primitive Rebels was published in 1959; his most recent 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 is the author of Going Sane and Side Effects, among other books. On Kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is out now.
Ben Rawlence is working on a book about Zanzibar.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Christopher Tayler is the Guardian’s chief fiction reviewer and lives in London.
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.
