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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 19 · 4 October 2007
Neil Forster, Rory MacQueen, Barbara Graziosi, Flora Jeunet, Gordon Peilow, Martin Sanderson
Michael Wood: Coetzee’s Grumpy Voice
Julian Barnes: Félix Fénéon
- Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon, translated by Luc Sante Buy this book
Tariq Ali: The Trouble with Pakistan
Ross McKibbin: Three Groans for Gordon
Nicholas Guyatt: Theories of Slavery
Andrew O’Hagan: Telecom Rehab
John Banville: Exit Zuckerman
Amit Chaudhuri: Midnight at Marble Arch
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Susan Eilenberg: ‘Mister Pip’
James Shapiro sticks up for Shakespeare
Wayne Koestenbaum: Tennessee Williams
- Tennessee Williams: Notebooks edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Sarah Sze’s Art of Arrangement
Adam Phillips: Translating Freud
Anne Enright: Disliking the McCanns
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s latest book, Protocols of the Elders of Sodom and Other Essays, will be published by Verso this summer.
John Banville’s latest novel is The Sea.
Julian Barnes is the author of, among other books, Arthur and George and Nothing to Be Frightened of.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Susan Eilenberg teaches in the English department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Anne Enright won the Booker Prize in 2007.
Jorie Graham’s new collection, Sea Change, will be out in the spring.
Nicholas Guyatt, until recently an associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, is moving to the University of York next month. Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World appeared earlier this year.
Wayne Koestenbaum has published 12 books of poetry, criticism and fiction, including Bestselling Jewish Porn Films, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, Andy Warhol and Cleavage. His newest is Hotel Theory.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
Adam Phillips is the author of Going Sane and Side Effects, among other books. On Kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is out now.
James Shapiro’s most recent book was 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, published by Faber. His next will be on the authorship controversy.
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.