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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 10 · 22 May 2008
William Mallinson, David Hannay, Reed Coughlan, Christopher Price, Robert Latypov and Aleksander Kalikh, Lewis Siegelbaum, Ruth Tenne, Alan Rudrum, Nick de Somogyi, Dave MacKay, Leslie Jackson
James Meek: A Great Radical Modernist
Colin Kidd on Hugh Trevor-Roper
- The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History by Hugh Trevor-Roper Buy this book
- Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne by Hugh Trevor-Roper Buy this book
Michael Wood: Tolstoy’s Malice
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Buy this book
Dan Jacobson on Giorgio Bassani
Hal Foster on Richard Serra
Quentin Skinner on Milton
Adam Shatz: ‘Immigration Removal Centres’
Terry Eagleton on anonymity
Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Fanny Kemble
Rosemary Hill: Das englische Haus
- The English House by Hermann Muthesius, edited by Dennis Sharp, translated by Janet Seligman and Stewart Spencer Buy this book
August Kleinzahler on Louis Zukofsky
- The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky by Mark Scroggins Buy this book
Joanna Biggs on Keith Gessen
Kevin Kopelson: Confessions of a Plagiarist
Contributors
Joanna Biggs works at the London Review.
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.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, which won the James Tait Black biography prize, is now in paperback.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.
John Kinsella’s most recent collection is Shades of the Sublime and Beautiful, which came out last year. He is the editor of The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry.
August Kleinzahler is the author of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the forthcoming Music: I-LXXIV, Collected Music Writings from Pressed Wafer in Boston.
Kevin Kopelson, at this point, has nothing else to say about himself.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge. He spoke about Milton and liberty at Cambridge in January as part of the 400th-anniversary celebrations of Milton’s birth.
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.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell teaches at Yale. Her new edition of The Golden Bowl is just out from Penguin.
