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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 15 · 2 August 2007
James Meek: The Rise of the Private Army
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill Buy this book
Robin Kinross, Mary Fain, Charles Tripp, Sean Haycock, Robert Hewison, Salim Lone, Tariq Ali, Frank Conley, David Carpenter, Victor Glasstone, Ali Rizvi, John McGill, Peter Ghosh
Bernard Porter: The End of Empire
- Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-68 by Ronald Hyam Buy this book
- The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire by Peter Clarke Buy this book
- Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain’s Asian Empire by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Prunella Clough
Adewale Maja-Pearce: Soyinka’s Dubious Friendships
- You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir by Wole Soyinka Buy this book
Yonatan Mendel: Designing the Occupation
- Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman Buy this book
Michael Dobson: The Astor Place Riot
- The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama and Death in 19th-Century America by Nigel Cliff Buy this book
Jenny Diski on Princess Diana
Ferdinand Mount: Imposters
- The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation by Rohan McWilliam Buy this book
- A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson by Frances Welch Buy this book
- The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of York by David Baldwin Buy this book
Thomas Jones: Kicking Dick Cheney
Norman Dombey: Death by Polonium
- Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB by Alex Goldfarb, with Marina Litvinenko Buy this book
John Foot awaits the trial of the kidnappers
Colin Dayan: ‘Supermax’ Prisons
- Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons by Clive Stafford Smith Buy this book
Philip Connors: Absurdistan
Hugh Pennington: Cadbury's Big Mistake
Wyatt Mason on Jonathan Franzen
- The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen Buy this book
Michel Lechat: Graham Greene at the Leproserie
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Philip Connors lives in New Mexico.
Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, is the author, most recently, of The Story of Cruel and Unusual.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.
Norman Dombey is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
Gerard Fanning’s latest collection is Water & Power.
John Foot teaches at University College London. His books include Milan since the Miracle: City, Culture and Identity and Calcio: A History of Italian Football.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Michel Lechat was medical director of the Yonda leprosy settlement in the then Belgian Congo when Graham Greene arrived in 1959 to research the book that became A Burnt-Out Case; the novel is dedicated to him.
Adewale Maja-Pearce is the author of In My Father’s Country and How Many Miles to Babylon? He lives in Lagos.
Wyatt Mason is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. His translation of Rimbaud’s works is published by Scribner.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
Yonatan Mendel was a correspondent for the Israeli news agency Walla. He is currently at Queens’ College, Cambridge working on a PhD that studies the connection between the Arabic language and security in Israel.
Ferdinand Mount’s Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes is out soon.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.
Jean Sprackland’s third collection, Tilt, won this year’s Costa Award for Poetry.
