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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 Buy this book
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
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 head of art history and theory at the Ruskin in Oxford. His books include Seeing Things Hidden: Apocalypse, Vision and Totality.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Claire Crowther’s Stretch of Closures has been shortlisted for the Jerwood/Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.
Gillian Darley’s Villages of Vision is published in a revised edition this month.
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 is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Sheila Fitzpatrick teaches at the University of Chicago. She is the editor (with Stuart Macintyre) of Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian History and Politics.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Mark Greif is one of the editors of n+1.
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Geoffrey Hawthorn is writing a book about Thucydides.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, is 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’s Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed will be published by Oxford. He teaches sociology at Edinburgh University.
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’s latest book of poems is That Little Something.
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, who teaches at UCLA, has many friends from Bihar, and a few in Gurgaon.
Bee Wilson is the author of Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee.
