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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 15 · 31 July 2008
Tony Judge, Paul Francis, Eliot Weinberger, Neville Twitchell, Peter Green, Rebecca French, Sean Gallagher, Charles Alverson
James Meek on England’s Water
Stefan Collini: On Raymond Williams
Tom Shippey: Celticity
- The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, edited by Michael Reeve, translated by Neil Wright Buy this book
- The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth Buy this book
Barbara Graziosi on Bacchylides
- Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition by David Fearn Buy this book
Jeremy Harding tries to listen to the World Service
Jacqueline Rose: Bernhard Schlink’s Guilt
- Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Michael Henry Heim Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Frank Gehry’s Pavilion
Roxanne Varzi on Muslim Women’s Memoirs
- Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit by Gillian Whitlock Buy this book
Michael Sheringham: The French Provinces
Megan Vaughan: Fanon’s Psychiatric Hospital
- Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa by Richard Keller Buy this book
Eric Foner: What was it like on a slave ship?
- The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
Jenny Diski tries to stay awake
Contributors
John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air won the 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize. The first volume of his collected poems will be published by the Library of America.
Uri Avnery is a former member of the Knesset and a leader of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics. He teaches at Cambridge.
Jenny Diski’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
Daniel Finn is a journalist who lives in Dublin.
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Our Lincoln, an edited volume, will be published in the autumn.
Barbara Graziosi is the author of Inventing Homer and is currently writing a commentary on Book 6 of the Iliad. Her next project is a book on Migrant Gods. She teaches Classics at Durham University.
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.
R.F. Langley’s Collected Poems came out from Carcanet in 2000 and a later collection, The Face of It, also from Carcanet, in 2007. Shearsman Books published his prose Journals in 2006.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
Jacqueline Rose is a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices.
Michael Sheringham teaches French at Oxford and is a fellow of All Souls. His Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present was published in 2006.
Tom Shippey’s edited collection of essays on Grimm’s mythology, The Shadow-Walkers, won the Mythopoeic Society’s 2008 award for scholarship. He is working on a book about death-scenes in Old Norse.
Roxanne Varzi is the author of Warring Souls: Media, Martyrdom and Youth in Post-Revolution Iran. She teaches anthropology and film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Megan Vaughan teaches at Cambridge. Psychiatry and Empire was published last year.
