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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 9 · 10 May 2007
Michael Dobson: The Yellow Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare, Complete Works: The RSC Shakespeare edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen Buy this book
Yigal Bronner and Neve Gordon, Ian Fairlie, Peter Arnott, Alex Bailin, Jeremy Harding, David Craig
Perry Anderson: The Inglorious Career of Kofi Annan
- The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power by James Traub Buy this book
- Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War by Stanley Meisler Buy this book
Susan Pedersen: A.J.P. Taylor
- A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe by Chris Wrigley Buy this book
Frank Kermode: At the Cost of Life
Thomas Jones: How to Type like a Man
Judith Butler: Hannah Arendt
- The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt, edited by Jerome Kohn and Ron Feldman Buy this book
Ian Hacking: Ideas of Nature
- The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature by Pierre Hadot, translated by Michael Chase Buy this book
Hugh Pennington: Culex molestus and Culex pipiens
Peter Campbell: A Mile of Style
Edward Tenner: Old Technology
- The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 by David Edgerton Buy this book
Inigo Thomas on Gore Vidal
- Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006 by Gore Vidal Buy this book
Jessica Olin: College Girls
- College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens and Coeds, Then and Now by Lynn Peril Buy this book
Sameer Rahim: The Yacoubian Building
- The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswany, translated by Humphrey Davies
Anne Enright: Listen to Heloïse
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at Berkeley, is writing a book on the critique of state violence in Jewish thought.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.
Anne Enright’s novel The Gathering is out from Cape. There will be a book of stories in the spring.
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Nick Laird’s second collection of poems, On Purpose, is due in August. He lives in Rome.
Jessica Olin lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Susan Pedersen teaches British and European history and political thought at Columbia University.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Sameer Rahim works at the Daily Telegraph.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Edward Tenner is the author of Our Own Devices and Why Things Bite Back. He is working on a book about positive unintended consequences.
Inigo Thomas’s profile of Barack Obama appears in this month’s Esquire.
