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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 5 · 6 March 2008
John Lanchester: The Great British Press Disaster
Edward Pearce, Eamon Duffy, Aram Saroyan, Jenny Diski, Andrew Jotischky, David Edgerton, Frank Kermode, Ian Blake, Jonathan Smith, Joshua Rahtz, Denis Feeney
Andrew O’Hagan: Two Soldiers
Adam Shatz: What the War is Costing
Patrick Cockburn: Sunni v. Shia v. the US v. al-Qaida
Theo Tait: Peter Carey goes astray
Tobias Gregory: Milton’s Terrorist
- Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings by Joseph Wittreich Buy this book
Peter Campbell on Peter Doig
David Simpson: Stefan Collini among the Intellectuals
Jeremy Harding on Commemoration
Adam Phillips: Criticism without Malice
- A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe by Geoffrey Hartman Buy this book
Kathleen Jamie: The Cult of the Wild
Yonatan Mendel: How to Become an Israeli Journalist
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent for the Independent and has been visiting Iraq since 1977. Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq is out from Faber.
Tobias Gregory, author of From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic, teaches at the Catholic University of America.
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.
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.
John Lanchester is a contributing editor at the LRB. His latest book is Family Romance, a memoir.
Yonatan Mendel was a correspondent for the Israeli news agency Walla. He is currently at Queens’ College, Cambridge working on a PhD that studies the connection between the Arabic language and security in Israel.
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.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacy, written with Leo Bersani, is due in April. Penguin have just reissued his first book, about Donald Winnicott.
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
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.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
