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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 John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
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 book of poems is The New Arcadia.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Kevin Kopelson, at this point, has nothing else to say about himself.
James Meek’s novel We Are Now Beginning Our Descent was published in February. The People’s Act of Love won the Ondaatje 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 teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English at Yale. Her new book is Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.
