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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
- Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis Buy this book
- The Trader, the Owner, the Slave by James Walvin Buy this book
- The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 by Colin Kidd Buy this book
- The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese Buy this book
Andrew O’Hagan: Telecom Rehab
John Banville: Exit Zuckerman
Amit Chaudhuri: Midnight at Marble Arch
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 The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power will be published next year.
John Banville’s latest novel is The Sea.
Julian Barnes has written ten novels, all in more than three lines. His most recent was Arthur and George.
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’s novel The Gathering is out from Cape. There will be a book of stories in the spring.
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, a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, is the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacy, written with Leo Bersani, is due in April. Penguin have just reissued his first book, about Donald Winnicott.
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 teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.