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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 13 · 5 July 2007
Alastair Crooke: The Case for Hamas
- Hamas: Unwritten Chapters by Azzam Tamimi Buy this book
- Where Now for Palestine? The Demise of the Two-State Solution edited by Jamil Hilal Buy this book
- Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Sara Roy Buy this book
Richard Strier, Dominic Sandbrook, Ian Mortimer, Inigo Thomas, Robert Ferguson, Peter Goodrich, Scott Malcomson, Stephen Bowd
Frank Kermode: Housman’s Pleasures
- The Letters of A.E. Housman edited by Archie Burnett Buy this book
Joshua Kurlantzick: China in Africa
- China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise by Ian Taylor Buy this book
- China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century edited by Joshua Eisenman, Eric Heginbotham and Derek Mitchell
- China’s African Policy
- China’s Expanding Role in Africa: Implications for the United States by Bates Gill, Chin-hao Huang and J. Stephen Morrison
- Friends and Interests: China’s Distinctive Links with Africa by Barry Sautman
- African Perspectives on China in Africa edited by Firoze Manji and Stephen Marks
- Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier by Harry Broadman Buy this book
Charles Tripp: Invading Iraq in 1914
- Tigris Gunboats: The Forgotten War in Iraq 1914-17 by Wilfred Nunn Buy this book
Scott Sherman: Castro in the New York Times
- The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of the ‘New York Times’ by Anthony DePalma
Graham Robb: Who cut the tow rope?
- Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece by Jonathan Miles Buy this book
Mark Greif on Don DeLillo
- Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Evan Hughes on Jonathan Lethem
J. Hoberman: The CIA’s Animal Farm
Adam Phillips: Meanings of Impotence
Michael Wood on Tony Harrison
William Wootten: Alun Lewis and ‘Frieda’
Mary Beard on Jessica Mitford
- Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford edited by Peter Sussman Buy this book
Sheila Fitzpatrick on Mozart
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography by Piero Melograni, translated by Lydia Cochrane Buy this book
- Mozart: The First Biography by Franz Niemetschek, translated by Helen Mautner Buy this book
- Mozart’s Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music by Jane Glover Buy this book
Peter Campbell: How We Are
Chaohua Wang: Remembering Tiananmen
Contributors
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Alastair Crooke, who helped facilitate a number of ceasefires in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between 2001 and 2003, was a member of the Mitchell Commission on the causes of the second intifada and a special adviser to Javier Solana.
Sheila Fitzpatrick teaches at the University of Chicago. She is the editor (with Stuart Macintyre) of Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian History and Politics.
Jorie Graham’s new collection, Sea Change, will be out in the spring.
Mark Greif is co-editor of the magazine n+1.
J. Hoberman is senior film critic for the Village Voice and the author of The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties.
Evan Hughes lives in Brooklyn.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Joshua Kurlantzick is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World.
R.F. Langley’s Collected Poems came out in 2000; The Face of It was published in April.
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.
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century was published in 2003.
Scott Sherman is a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review.
Charles Tripp teaches Middle Eastern politics at SOAS. The third edition of his History of Iraq will be published next month.
Chaohua Wang, the editor of One China, Many Paths, was a member of the standing committee of the Beijing Autonomous Association of College Students in the spring of 1989, and after 4 June was on the Chinese government’s most-wanted list. Her article in this issue is based on two texts, originally written in Chinese, commemorating 4 June this year and last year.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
William Wootten sells books, when not reviewing them.
