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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 16 · 16 August 2007
Linda Colley: The Clinton Succession
- A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein Buy this book
- Hillary Clinton: Her Way: The Biography by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Buy this book
Rod Edmond, Gabriel Egan, Chimen Abramsky, Norman Zide, Shashi Tharoor, Christine Lindey, Peter Burgess, Arthur Searle, David Whalin, Archie Burnett
Henry Siegman: There Is No Peace Process
John Lanchester on Alastair Campbell’s Diaries
- The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries edited by Alastair Campbell and Richard Stott Buy this book
Rosemary Hill: ‘Mrs Woolf and the Servants’
- The Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service by Alison Light
Rosemarie Bodenheimer on Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell edited by Joanne Shattock et al
Patrick Wright: The Nixon/Mao Show
Deborah Friedell: First Impressions
R.W. Johnson remembers the trial
- The State v. Nelson Mandela: The Trial That Changed South Africa by Joel Joffe Buy this book
Joanna Biggs: Gwendoline Riley
Michael Wood: The Simpsons
Adam Thirlwell on Michael Chabon
Peter Campbell: The Heart
Karl Schlögel: Writing Diaries under Stalin
- Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin by Jochen Hellbeck Buy this book
Rashid Khalidi: Fatah and Hamas
Jenny Diski: Princess Margaret
Inigo Thomas: New York Megacity
Contributors
Joanna Biggs works at the London Review.
Rosemarie Bodenheimer is a professor of English at Boston College. Her latest book is Knowing Dickens.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.
Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com
Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her latest book is The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.
Jenny Diski’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
Deborah Friedell is an editor at the London Review.
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, which won the James Tait Black biography prize, is now in paperback.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia, is the author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Karl Schlögel’s Moscow recently appeared in English for the first time.
Henry Siegman, director of the US Middle East Project in New York, is a visiting research professor at SOAS, University of London. He is a former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America.
Adam Thirlwell’s novel Politics is out in paperback. Miss Herbert, a book about novels and translation, will be published in October.
Inigo Thomas’s profile of Barack Obama appears in this month’s Esquire.
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.
Patrick Wright’s Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War, will be published in October by Oxford. The sequel, which will appear next year, is concerned with Rex Warner, Barbara Castle, Stanley Spencer, Clement Attlee, A.J. Ayer and the other British delegates who visited China in 1954, the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the People’s Republic.
