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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 2 · 24 January 2008
Hilary Mantel: The Lure of the Unexplained
- Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained edited by Una McGovern Buy this book
Martha Roth, Alan Myers, Charles Turner, Anthony Rudolf, Glenn Lang, Slavoj Žižek, Ross McKibbin, Stephen Sasse, Eamonn Grogan, Rob Best, John Gretton, Ben Bollig, Valentin Lyubarsky, Donal Ó Drisceoil, Cliff Hawkins, Robert Berold
Jenny Diski: Who Are You Calling Ugly?
Andrew O’Hagan: The World of Andy McNab
Eliot Weinberger on the Psalms
David Hollinger: God and Politics
Peter Campbell: Good Enough to Eat
Terry Eagleton: The Divine Spark
- Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins by Peter Conrad Buy this book
Thomas Jones: Blogged Down
Tessa Hadley on Claire Keegan
Michael Hofmann: Guernsey’s Bard
Steven Mithen: History Seen as Neurochemistry
Daniel Branch: The Elections in Kenya
O.A. Westad: The Downtrodden Majority
- The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad Buy this book
Michael Wood on ‘Lust, Caution’
James Sanders: Colombia’s History of Violence
Norman Dombey: Iran’s Bomb: A Revision
Eric Hobsbawm: Memories of Weimar
Contributors
Daniel Branch is a lecturer in history at Exeter.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Jenny Diski’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
Norman Dombey is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
Terry Eagleton is, among other things, professor of cultural theory at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His latest book is Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. The Master Bedroom came out in 2007.
Eric Hobsbawm lives in London and in 2009 completes 50 years of writing books on history. Primitive Rebels was published in 1959; his most recent is Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism.
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.
David Hollinger, who teaches intellectual history at Berkeley, is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Hilary Mantel’s most recent novel is Wolf Hall.
Steven Mithen directs excavations in the Hebrides, where he is exploring the hunter-gatherer lifestyles of the earliest colonists, and in Wadi Faynan in Jordan, where he is excavating the early Neolithic site WF16.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
James Sanders, the author of Contentious Republicans: Popular Politics, Race and Class in 19th-Century Colombia, teaches history at Utah State University.
Eliot Weinberger’s recent books include What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, An Elemental Thing and The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry.
O.A. Westad is a professor of international history at the LSE and the author of The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times.
Hugo Williams’s latest collection is Dear Room.
Michael Wood’s books include America in the Movies, The Magician’s Doubts, The Road to Delphi and, most recently, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. He teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton.
