Articles marked 
are available to registered subscribers to the print edition of the London Review of Books. For information about subscribing to the LRB, click here. If you are already a subscriber and you wish to register for online access, click here.
Contents
Vol. 29 No. 23 · 29 November 2007
James Davidson: How Good Was Nureyev?
Lester Coleman, Graeme Wood, Jerry Fodor, Benjamin Friedman, Michael Robertson, George Donaldson, Malcolm Reid, Joshua Cohen, Barry Cant, Marjorie Farquharson, J.P. Roos
Greg Grandin: Henry Kissinger’s Vanity
Tom Paulin: Ted Hughes and the Hare
Mark Ford: Elizabeth Bishop’s Aviary
Jeremy Harding: Embedded in Iraq
Peter Campbell: Art, Past and Present
David Simpson on the iconic image
- No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture and Liberal Democracy by Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites Buy this book
R.W. Johnson: The Turning Points of the Second World War
- Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-41 by Ian Kershaw
J.L. Nelson: The Christian Holy War
- God’s War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman Buy this book
Peter Campbell on Louise Bourgeois
Patrick Collinson: The Faithful Thomas Cromwell
- Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister by Robert Hutchinson Buy this book
T.C. Smout: What Makes an Oak Tree Grow
- Woodlands by Oliver Rackham Buy this book
- Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees by Richard Mabey Buy this book
- Wildwood: A Journey through Trees by Roger Deakin Buy this book
- The Wild Trees: What if the Last Wilderness Is above Our Heads? by Richard Preston
Thomas Jones: Denis Johnson’s Vietnam
Alexander Zevin: The New ’68ers
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.
James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Mark Ford teaches at UCL.
John Glenday works as an addictions co-ordinator in the Scottish Highlands. A selection of his poems appeared in New British Poetry.
Greg Grandin teaches history at New York University. He is the author of The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War.
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.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
J.L. Nelson teaches medieval history at King’s College London. She is writing a book about Charlemagne.
Ruth Padel, whose most recent book is Darwin: A Life in Poems, is resident poet at Somerset House.
Tom Paulin’s latest book is The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Pluralism and the Personality of the State, The Politics of Good Intentions and Political Hypocrisy.
David Simpson is G.B. Needham Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California at Davis. His books include 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration and, most recently, Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity.
T.C. Smout, Scotland’s Historiographer Royal, founded the Institute for Environmental History at St Andrews. His latest book, with Fiona Watson and Alan MacDonald, is A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920.
Alexander Zevin is a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.
