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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 14 · 17 July 2008
Allen Singer, Jason Farago, Colin Bloch, James Mosley, Peter Bourne, Ophelia Tshabalala, John Morris, Henry Fitch, Tim Gutteridge, Mike Harding
Jeremy Harding on the Dangers of Intervention
John Lanchester: New Labour’s Terrible Memoirs
- Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography by Cherie Blair Buy this book
- Prezza, My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott, with Hunter Davies Buy this book
- A Question of Honour: Inside New Labour and the True Story of the Cash for Peerages Scandal by Michael Levy Buy this book
Andrew O’Hagan on M. Night Shyamalan
Tariq Ali: After Benazir
- Descent into Chaos: How the War against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Buy this book
- Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars within by Shuja Nawaz Buy this book
Benjamin Kunkel: Another Ian McEwan!
Thomas Jones: Spies Wanted
Deborah Friedell on Richard Price
- Lush Life by Richard Price
Peter Campbell on the Divisionists and Vilhelm Hammershoi
Frank Kermode: Doris Lessing
Charles Tripp: Muqtada al-Sadr
Diarmaid MacCulloch: The Dissolution of the Monasteries
Helen Deutsch: Laetitia Pilkington, ‘Foot-ball of Fortune’
- Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington by Norma Clarke Buy this book
Dinah Birch: Governesses
- Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess by Ruth Brandon Buy this book
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s latest book, Protocols of the Elders of Sodom and Other Essays, will be published by Verso this summer.
Dinah Birch is the author of Our Victorian Education. She teaches at Liverpool University and is the general editor of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Helen Deutsch teaches English at UCLA. She is the author of Loving Dr Johnson and is working on a new book on Swift.
Mark Ford teaches at UCL.
Deborah Friedell is an editor at the London Review.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
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.
Benjamin Kunkel’s first novel, Indecision, came out in 2005. He is an editor of n+1, and is at work on a play.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford. His books include Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation, Thomas Cranmer and, most recently, Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
Charles Tripp teaches Middle Eastern politics at SOAS. The third edition of A History of Iraq was published last year.
Sean Wilsey is the author of Oh the Glory of It All, a memoir, and the editor, with Matt Weiland, of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, which will be published in the US in September.
