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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 17 · 6 September 2007
Benjamin Kunkel on Roberto Bolaño
- The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer Buy this book
- Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews Buy this book
- Amulet by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews Buy this book
Colin Bickler, Jerome Satterthwaite, Kate Allen, Richard Jones, Stephen Edgar, Seth Wigderson, Jessica Han, Tariq Ali, Tim Johnson
Thomas Jones: Ismail Kadare
- Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare, translated by Arshi Pipa Buy this book
- Agamemnon’s Daughter: A Novella and Stories by Ismail Kadare, original translation by Tedi Papavrami and Jusuf Vrioni, translated from the French by David Bellos
- The Successor by Ismail Kadare, original translation by Tedi Papavrami, translated from the French by David Bellos Buy this book
- The File on H by Ismail Kadare, original translation by Jusuf Vrioni, translated from the French by David Bellos Buy this book
Jonathan Spence: Zhu Wen’s China
- ‘I Love Dollars’ and Other Stories of China by Zhu Wen, translated by Julia Lovell Buy this book
Stephen Sedley: In the Court of Appeal
- The Court of Appeal by Gavin Drewry, Louis Blom-Cooper and Charles Blake Buy this book
Ed Harriman: The Iraq Disaster
Mahmood Mamdani: Can the UN rescue Darfur?
David Cannadine: The Proms
Stefan Collini: C. Day-Lewis
Colm Tóibín on Rupert Everett
- Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Retrieved at the Restoration
J. Hoberman: Orson Welles
- Orson Welles: Hello Americans by Simon Callow Buy this book
- What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career by Joseph McBride Buy this book
Fintan O’Toole: The Case of Darren Graham
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
David Cannadine is the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London and chairman of the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery. His most recent books are Mellon: An American Life and National Portrait Gallery: A Brief History.
Stefan Collini’s Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain has just appeared in paperback.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He teaches at University College London.
Ed Harriman is a journalist and television documentary film-maker.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Benjamin Kunkel’s first novel, Indecision, came out in 2005. He is an editor of n+1.
Marc Kusnetz is an American journalist.
Mahmood Mamdani, the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror, is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the departments of anthropology, political science and international affairs at Columbia.
Fintan O’Toole is assistant editor of the Irish Times. His most recent book is White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Jonathan Spence teaches modern Chinese history at Yale. His latest book, Return to Dragon Mountain, will be published this month.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
