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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 Buy this book
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama Buy this book
- Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell Buy this book
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 Buy this book
Diarmaid MacCulloch: The First Queen of England
- Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England by David Loades Buy this book
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 has reported from Central and Eastern Europe since the 1960s. He is the author of Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland, The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea.
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 new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published in November. She is currently bobbing about on the South Atlantic.
Jerry Fodor is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
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 book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Jim Holt writes for the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
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 is a contributing editor at the LRB. His latest book is Family Romance, a memoir.
Diarmaid MacCulloch is professor of the history of the Church at Oxford. His latest book is 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 teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
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.
