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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
Jerry Fodor: Panpsychism
- Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism? by Galen Strawson et al Buy this book
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 is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He teaches at University College London.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’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 Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at Oxford. Her books include biographies of Virginia Woolf and, most recently, Edith Wharton.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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 of poems, Tilt, will be published by Cape in October.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
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.