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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 4 · 21 February 2008
Pankaj Mishra: Exporting Democracy
- The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manela Buy this book
Karon Monaghan, Jenny Chamier Grove, Malcolm Deas, Robert Steele, Ian Birchall, Chris Sinha, Eric Hobsbawm, Eric Dickens, Michael Hill, Martin Ward, Ted McFadyen, Hugh Wright, Natalie Matter
Bernard Porter: Torching the White House
- Fusiliers: Eight Years with the Redcoats in America by Mark Urban
- 1812: War with America by Jon Latimer Buy this book
Denis Feeney: Roman Victory!
Christopher Kelly on Roman Egypt
Paul Driver: Robert Schumann
- Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician by John Worthen Buy this book
- The Cambridge Companion to Schumann edited by Beate Perrey Buy this book
- Schumann’s Late Style by Laura Tunbridge Buy this book
Michael Wood: ‘No Country for Old Men’
Megan Marshall: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley
- The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1945-75 Buy this book
- The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1975-2005 Buy this book
- On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay by Robert Creeley Buy this book
- Selected Poems: 1945-2005 by Robert Creeley, edited by Benjamin Friedlander Buy this book
Hugh Pennington: Bluetongue
Modris Eksteins: New, Fast and Modern
Mary Ann Caws: Picabia's Dada
- I Am a Beautiful Monster by Francis Picabia, translated by Marc Lowenthal Buy this book
- The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris by George Baker Buy this book
Emily Wilson: Rom(an) Com
- Plautine Elements in Plautus by Eduard Fraenkel, translated by Tomas Drevikovsky and Frances Muecke Buy this book
- Plautus: ‘Asinaria – The One about the Asses’ translated by John Henderson Buy this book
- Terence: The Comedies translated by Peter Brown Buy this book
- Terence: Comedies translated by Frederick Clayton Buy this book
Paul Myerscough: Buying Art
James Morone: on William Jennings Bryan
- A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin Buy this book
Richard Gott: Paraguayan Power
Contributors
Stephen Burt is an associate professor of English at Harvard. His collection of essays and reviews, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, is available now.
Mary Ann Caws has a short illustrated biography of Salvador Dalí coming in June and a cooking memoir about living in Provence coming in November.
Paul Driver writes about music for the Sunday Times.
Modris Eksteins, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, is the author of Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age.
Denis Feeney teaches classics at Princeton. His most recent book is Caesar’s Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History.
Mark Ford teaches at UCL.
Richard Gott has written several books about Latin America, including Land without Evil: Utopian Journeys across the South American Watershed.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
Christopher Kelly’s books include Ruling the Later Roman Empire and The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction. He is a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Megan Marshall, who teaches at Emerson College, Boston, is the author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism.
Pankaj Mishra’s most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Beyond.
James Morone is a professor of politics at Brown University and the author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. His next book will be George Washington’s Revenge.
Paul Myerscough is an editor at the London Review.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Bernard Porter, who lives in Sweden, is the author of The Lion’s Share: A Short History of British Imperialism.
Emily Wilson teaches classics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her latest book is The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint.
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.
