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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 20 · 18 October 2007
Jim Holt: Iraq’s Lucrative Mess
Robert Horwood, Chris Purnell, Kenneth Hunter, Brian Lee, Inigo Thomas, Dinah Birch, Tom Phillips, Neil Ramsay
Tom Nairn: We’re All Petit Bourgeois Now
- What Should the Left Propose? by Roberto Mangabeira Unger Buy this book
- The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound by Roberto Mangabeira Unger Buy this book
- Une brève histoire de l’avenir by Jacques Attali
August Kleinzahler: The Rise and Fall of Barack Obama
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
- Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell
John Lanchester: Vasily Grossman’s Masterpiece
- Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler Buy this book
Joshua Kurlantzick: Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese Crisis
- Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi by Justin Wintle
Diarmaid MacCulloch: The First Queen of England
- Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England by David Loades
Natalie Zemon Davis: Identity and Faking It
- Who Are You? Identification, Deception and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Valentin Groebner, translated by Mark Kyburz and John Peck Buy this book
Jerry Fodor: The Case against Natural Selection
Jenny Diski: Internet Misfit
Michael Wood: ‘3.10 to Yuma’
Jeremy Harding: Rugby’s Early Years
T.P. Wiseman: Roman Myth, Roman History
Rosemary Hill: The Treasures of the Society of Antiquaries
Eleanor Birne on Anne Enright
Daniel Soar on Jonathan Coe
Neal Ascherson among the icebergs
Contributors
Neal Ascherson’s latest book is Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He was the Observer correspondent in Bonn from 1963 to 1968.
Eleanor Birne lives in London.
Ciaran Carson’s collections include Breaking News, The Twelfth of Never and a version of Dante’s Inferno.
Jenny Diski’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
Jerry Fodor teaches philosophy and psychology at Rutgers University. He is working on a book about what Darwin got wrong.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, which won the James Tait Black biography prize, is now in paperback.
Jim Holt writes for the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker.
August Kleinzahler is the author of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the forthcoming Music: I-LXXIV, Collected Music Writings from Pressed Wafer in Boston.
Joshua Kurlantzick is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford. His books include Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation, Thomas Cranmer and, most recently, Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700.
Tom Nairn is a researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, concerned with nationalism and the political and cultural effects of globalisation.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
T.P. Wiseman’s most recent book is The Myths of Rome. He teaches classics at Exeter.
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.
Natalie Zemon Davis, the author of The Return of Martin Guerre, is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History emerita from Princeton and is now associated with the University of Toronto. Her most recent book is Trickster Travels: A 16th-Century Muslim between Worlds.
