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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 10 · 24 May 2007
Andrew O’Hagan: The Garbage of England
Edward Mortimer, Rebecca Solnit, Paul Landau, Michael Hodder, Sean Coleman, Imogen Green, George Norton, Leslie Houlden, David Ganz
Peter Campbell: Copying the Masters
Blair Worden: Aristocrats v. the King
- The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I by John Adamson Buy this book
Adeeb Khalid: Catherine the Great’s Ulama
- For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia by Robert Crews Buy this book
Sadakat Kadri: American Trials
John Sturrock: Blair’s Convictions
Adam Kuper on Margaret Mead
- To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead edited by Margaret Caffrey and Patricia Francis Buy this book
Hermione Lee: Boston Marriage
- Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus Buy this book
Michael Wood sees Spider-Man 3
Rosemary Hill: Desperate Housewives
- Can Any Mother Help Me? Fifty Years of Friendship through a Secret Magazine by Jenna Bailey Buy this book
Thomas Jones: Peter Ho Davies
Mark Ford
- The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie edited by Donald Blount Buy this book
W.G. Runciman: Exit Blair
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jerry Fodor teaches philosophy and psychology at Rutgers University. He is working on a book about what Darwin got wrong.
Mark Ford teaches at UCL.
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, which won the James Tait Black biography prize, is now in paperback.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Sadakat Kadri is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers and the author of The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson. He is now writing a history of sharia law.
Adeeb Khalid teaches history at Carleton College in Minnesota. His Islam after Communism has just been published.
Adam Kuper, whose most recent book is The Reinvention of Primitive Society, is a professor of anthropology at Brunel University.
Hermione Lee is the author of biographies of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. She teaches at Oxford, where she is president of Wolfson College.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
W.G. Runciman is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a former president of the General Council of British Shipping.
Jean Sprackland’s third collection, Tilt, won this year’s Costa Award for Poetry.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
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.
Blair Worden is research professor in history at Royal Holloway College in London. Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England is coming out in the autumn.
