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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 16 · 14 August 2008
Jonathan Raban: The Virtual Life of Neil Entwistle
Joseph Szczekoski, Janet Malcolm, Jane Elliott, Colin Cohen, Martin Ward, Wendy Walker, George Schlesinger, Mahir Saul, Fred Schwarzbach, Patrick Ainscough
David Simpson: Vietnam’s Ghosts
Jeremy Harding: Serbia after Karadzic
Slavoj Žižek on Radovan Karadzic’s Poetry
Patrick Cockburn: Power Struggles in Iraq
Michael Wood: on ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’
Daniel Soar considers mobile surveillance
Dan Jacobson: Wilhelm von Habsburg
- The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder Buy this book
Michael Wood on ‘The Dark Knight’
Colin Burrow: Two Novels about Lost Bellinis
Philip Oltermann on Thomas Glavinic
- Night Work by Thomas Glavinic, translated by John Brownjohn Buy this book
Hal Foster on Richard Hamilton
Michael Klare on the Oil Crisis
Hilary Mantel: In the Waiting Room
Contributors
Fiona Benson is working on her first book.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on a book about Picasso between the wars.
Patrick Cockburn has been visiting Iraq since 1977. His Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq was published by Faber in April.
Hal Foster chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
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.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Michael Klare is professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy is out in September.
Hilary Mantel whose books include A Place of Greater Safety, Giving up the Ghost and Beyond Black, is working on a new novel called Wolf Hall.
Philip Oltermann was born in Schleswig-Holstein. He is writing a book about Anglo-German meetings for Faber.
Jonathan Raban’s most recent books are My Holy War and Surveillance. Soft City, first published in 1974, has just been reissued.
Robin Robertson’s Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea was published by Vintage this year.
David Simpson teaches English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern will come out from Cambridge next year.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Slavoj Žižek, a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst, is co-director of the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck. His latest book is In Defence of Lost Causes.
