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. 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 Zizek, 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
- The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West by Mark Lilla Buy this book
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 new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published in November. She is currently bobbing about on the South Atlantic.
Norman Dombey is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
Terry Eagleton’s Ideology: An Introduction has been reissued with a new preface.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. A collection of stories, Sunstroke, and a novel, The Master Bedroom, were published last year.
Eric Hobsbawm’s most recent book 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 London Review’s contributing editors.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
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 The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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 most recent books are An Elemental Thing and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. ‘What I Heard about Iraq’ was published in the LRB in 2005, its sequel in 2006.
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 teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
