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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 24 · 13 December 2007
T.J. Clark, Chris Harman, André Bénichou, David Robinson, Chris Greenwood, Richard Marsh, Nicholas Blanton, Tony Barrell, Jim Grove, David Karol, Anthony Thwaite, Page Nelson
Terry Castle: Claude & Marcel, Gertrude & Alice
- Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore edited by Louise Downie Buy this book
- Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm Buy this book
Frank Kermode: The Literature of Old Age
Michael Wood on the gangster movie
Brian Dillon: Michael Ondaatje
Roy Foster: Ireland since 1789
- Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006 by Paul Bew Buy this book
William Feaver: Edward Burra
- Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye by Jane Stevenson Buy this book
Roger Parker: Unsung Operas
- Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett Buy this book
Soledad Fox on Luis de Góngora
- Selected Poems of Luis de Góngora edited and translated by John Dent-Young Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Joan Eardley
Thomas Keymer on the Unspeakable Edmund Curll
- Edmund Curll, Bookseller by Paul Baines and Pat Rogers Buy this book
Tom Nairn on the Australian elections
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power will be published next year.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com
Brian Dillon is the author of a memoir, In the Dark Room, and the UK editor of Cabinet. He is working on Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriacal Lives.
William Feaver’s Lucian Freud has just been published; Frank Auerbach is in preparation and he is working on paintings for a oneman show next year.
Roy Foster is the Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford. His most recent book is Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change 1970-2000.
Soledad Fox teaches Spanish and comparative literature at Williams College. She has recently published a biography of Constancia de la Mora.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Jackman Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His Oxford World’s Classics edition of Robinson Crusoe appeared this year.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Tom Nairn is a researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, concerned with nationalism and the political and cultural effects of globalisation.
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.
Roger Parker teaches music at King’s College London.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
