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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 17 · 11 September 2008
Perry Anderson: After the Ottomans
John Clayton, Norman Gray, Andrew Milner, James Finlayson, Eliot Weinberger, Roman Szporluk, Terence Eccles, Simon Skinner, Michael Haslam, Damian Grant, Muharem Basdulj
Peter Campbell: Wyndham Lewis
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Solzhenitsyn’s Mission
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Liudmila Saraskina
Tony Wood: Why Did Saakashvili Do It?
Michael Dobson on 17th-century literary culture
Michael Wood: ‘Man on Wire’
Ross McKibbin: Politics without Ideas
John Lanchester: Life on Mars?
Jenny Turner on Helen DeWitt
- Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff
Deborah Friedell: Mrs Dickens
Caleb Crain: Wilkie Collins’s Name Games
Liz Brown: Doris Day’s Performances
- Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door by David Kaufman Buy this book
Jerry Fodor on Operatic Seduction
- Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera by Jean Starobinski, translated by C. Jon Delogu Buy this book
Maya Jasanoff in Sierra Leone
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Liz Brown has recently completed a novel about a singer.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Caleb Crain writes for various upmarket papers and rides a Swobo Dixon.
Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.
Sheila Fitzpatrick is currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, working on displaced persons in the British occupation zone in Germany after the Second World War.
Jerry Fodor teaches philosophy and psychology at Rutgers University. He is working on a book about what Darwin got wrong.
Deborah Friedell is an editor at the London Review.
Maya Jasanoff teaches British and Imperial history at Harvard. Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East is out in paperback.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Jenny Turner novel, The Brainstorm, is out in paperback.
Tony Wood works at NLR, and is the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence.
Michael Wood’s books include America in the Movies, The Magician’s Doubts, The Road to Delphi and, most recently, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. He teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton.
