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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 21 · 1 November 2007
Ross McKibbin: A Bad Week for Gordon Brown
Simon Blackburn, Tim Lewens, Ian Cross, Gerald Mangan, Anthony Curtis, Jeremy Harding, Ken Sunshine, Grey Anderson, Stan Smith
Malcolm Bull: The Apostasies of John Gray
- Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Placing V.S. Naipaul
- A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V.S. Naipaul Buy this book
Mark Greif on Ralph Ellison
Colin Dayan on the Jena Six
Elizabeth Lowry on Malcolm Lowry
Hal Foster: ‘The Painting of Modern Life’
Ian Hacking: The Colour Red
- Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind by G.E.R. Lloyd Buy this book
Jenny Diski among the Handbags
- Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Lustre by Dana Thomas
Donald MacKenzie: Trading from the Pit
- Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London by Caitlin Zaloom Buy this book
Yitzhak Laor on the Never-Ending War
- 1967: Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev, translated by Jessica Cohen Buy this book
Thomas Jones: A Spasso con Gusto
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Stalin’s Origins
Geoffrey Hawthorn: The Unstoppable Hugo Chávez
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope by Tariq Ali
- Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today by D.L. Raby Buy this book
Colin Burrow: John Crowley's Impure Fantasy
Tom McCarthy: Steven Hall’s ‘The Raw Shark Texts’
Gillian Darley: Rediscovering Essex
- The Buildings of England: Essex by James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner Buy this book
Bee Wilson: Falling for Michael Moore
Alan Strathern reports from Sri Lanka
Contributors
Malcolm Bull is the author of Seeing Things Hidden and Anti-Nietzsche, out shortly from Verso.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and the editor of the Penguin Metaphysical Poetry.
Claire Crowther’s Stretch of Closures has been shortlisted for the Jerwood/Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.
Gillian Darley’s biography of John Soane was published in 1999 and remains in print.
Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, is the author, most recently, of The Story of Cruel and Unusual.
Jenny Diski’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
Sheila Fitzpatrick is currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, working on displaced persons in the British occupation zone in Germany after the Second World War.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Mark Greif is an editor of n+1 and teaches at the New School in New York.
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Geoffrey Hawthorn has just retired as a professor of politics at Cambridge.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, will be published by Quercus in July.
Tom McCarthy is the author of two novels, Remainder and Men in Space, and a non-fiction work, Tintin and the Secret of Literature.
Donald MacKenzie teaches sociology at the University of Edinburgh. His research on credit derivatives is being supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.
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.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Alan Strathern’s Kingship and Conversion in 16th-Century Sri Lanka: Portuguese Imperialism in a Buddhist Land is out this year. He is a research fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam teaches history at UCLA. He is the editor, with David Armitage, of the forthcoming The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, 1760-1840.
Bee Wilson is the author of Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee.
