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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 11 · 5 June 2008
Nicholas Spice: The Interment of Elisabeth Fritzl
- Greed by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Martin Chalmers Buy this book
William Grant, Shego Jinpa, Donald Lopez, Michel Thibaud, Matthew Pires, Brian Vickers, Martin Sanderson, Salah el Serafy, William Vesterman
Frank Kermode: Sacrifice
- Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera by Derek Hughes Buy this book
Jenny Turner: Lorrie Moore
David Runciman: The Point of the Polls
Thomas Cohen: Exchanging Ideas in Early Modern Venice
- Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics by Filippo de Vivo Buy this book
Stephen Sedley: Constitution-Makers
Andrew O’Hagan writes from Bethlehem
Michael Wood: The Devil and Robert Bresson
Maurice Keen on Henry IV
- The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England’s Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer Buy this book
Brian Dillon: Sense of Self
Hugh Pennington: The Dangerous Dead
Jonathan Barnes: Demiurge at Work
- Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity by David Sedley Buy this book
Patrick Collinson: Farewell to the Muggletonians
- Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652-1979 by William Lamont Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Unpopular Culture
Louisa Waugh: Living in Gaza
Contributors
Jonathan Barnes, who taught philosophy in Oxford, Geneva and Paris, lives in retirement in the middle of France. He has written several books about ancient philosophy, the most recent of which, Coffee with Aristotle, has a preface by his brother.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Thomas Cohen is a professor of history at York University in Toronto. He writes on the cultural and political anthropology of Renaissance Rome and its rural hinterland.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.
Brian Dillon is the author of a memoir, In the Dark Room, and the UK editor of Cabinet. He is working on Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriacal Lives.
Maurice Keen is an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He has written a number of books on medieval subjects, including Chivalry and Origins of the English Gentleman.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
David Runciman’s new book is Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
Nicholas Spice is the publisher of the LRB.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Jenny Turner’s first novel The Brainstorm is out now in paperback.
Louisa Waugh is the author of Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia and Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
