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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 22 · 15 November 2007
Shadi Bartsch: Death and the Ancients
Kenneth Anderson, Robert Chandler, Tony Gross, Alan Harris, Markie Robson-Scott, Jerry Coyne and Philip Kitcher, Daniel Dennett, Steven Rose, Colin Tudge, Kit Evans, Rory Finnin, Derek Robinson, Robin Chapman, Fiona Johnston, Thomas Venning
Slavoj Žižek: What to Do about Capitalism
Nicholas Guyatt: Evangelical Disarray
- American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges Buy this book
Uri Avnery: Remembering the Ultimate Sabra
Thomas Jones: Robert Harris’s Alternative Realities
David A. Bell: Political Sentiment
Megan Marshall on Margaret Fuller
- Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Public Years by Charles Capper Buy this book
John Lanchester: Decoding Hu Jintao
Tim Lewens: Who Was Max Perutz?
- Max Perutz and the Secret of Life by Georgina Ferry Buy this book
Hugh Pennington: Bugs
- Investigation into Outbreaks of ‘Clostridium difficile’ at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Investigation into Outbreaks of ‘Clostridium difficile’ at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Deborah Friedell on Bernard Malamud
Michael Wood on David Cronenberg’s ‘Eastern Promises’
Andrew O’Hagan: Toff Humour
- The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley Buy this book
Julian Bell on John Everett Millais
Anne Carson: Jimi and the Deer
Patrick Cockburn with the Kurds
Mike Davis: California Burns
Contributors
Uri Avnery is a former member of the Knesset and a leader of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc.
Shadi Bartsch is the Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago.
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
Julian Bell is the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which came out last month.
Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.
Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent on the Independent and has been visiting Iraq since 1977. Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq was published in April.
Mike Davis is an incendiarist based in San Diego. His latest books are Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb and In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire.
Deborah Friedell is an editor at the London Review.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Lanchester is a contributing editor at the LRB. His latest book is Family Romance, a memoir.
Tim Lewens teaches in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge. His most recent books are Darwin and Risk: Philosophical Perspectives.
Megan Marshall, who teaches at Emerson College, Boston, is the author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.
