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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 6 · 20 March 2008
Max Trevitt, Amos Halevy, Stephen Wilson, Daniel Finn, James Sanders, Bruce Molloy, Tim Nau, Peter Dreyer, Christopher Campbell-Howes, George Josephs
Steven Shapin: What’s the Genome Worth?
Ferdinand Mount: Cherubino at Number Ten
Adam Shatz: Theoretician of al-Qaida
- Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of al-Qaida Strategist Abu Musab al-Suri by Brynjar Lia Buy this book
Frank Kermode on the Resurrection
Susan Pedersen: No Votes, Thank You
- Women against the Vote: Female Anti-Suffragism in Britain by Julia Bush Buy this book
Maya Jasanoff: 18th Century Calcutta
Colm Tóibín on the need to be revealed
Andrew O’Hagan: Dinner at the Digs
Philip Connors on Junot Díaz
Charles Simic on Cavafy
- The Collected Poems by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou Buy this book
- The Canon by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Stratis Haviaras Buy this book
Michael Wood: Bertolucci’s The Conformist
Benjamin Markovits: Byron’s Editor
- The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron edited by Andrew Nicholson Buy this book
Jolyon Leslie on Afghanistan
Paul Myerscough on Juan Muñoz
David Margolick: The Mob’s Cuban Kleptocracy
- The Havana Mob: Gangsters, Gamblers, Showgirls and Revolutionaries in 1950s Cuba by T.J. English Buy this book
Jonathan Raban: I’m for Obama
Contributors
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Philip Connors lives in New Mexico.
Maya Jasanoff teaches British and Imperial history at Harvard. Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East is out in paperback.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Jolyon Leslie lives in Kabul. A new edition of Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace, written with Chris Johnson, is due in September.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
David Margolick is the author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis v. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink.
Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.
Ferdinand Mount’s Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes is out soon.
Paul Myerscough is an editor at the London Review.
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.
Susan Pedersen teaches British and European history and political thought at Columbia University.
Jonathan Raban’s most recent books are the essay collection My Holy War and the novel Surveillance.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
