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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
- Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek Buy this book
- Henry Kissinger and the American Century by Jeremi Suri Buy this book
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 Buy this book
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 Buy this book
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 at Cambridge University.
James Davidson is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He teaches at University College London.
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 London Review’s contributing editors.
J.L. Nelson teaches medieval history at King’s College London. She is writing a book about Charlemagne.
Ruth Padel’s The Poem and the Journey is out from Chatto.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
David Runciman’s Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell will be published by Princeton.
David Simpson teaches English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern will come out from Cambridge next year.
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.
