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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 19 · 9 October 2008
Alan Hollinghurst: Sissiness
Martin Carrick, Lyn Julius, Nicholas Simmons, Jenny Turner, J. Elfenbein, Paul Edwards
Jonathan Raban: Sarah Palin’s Cunning
Adam Shatz: Obsession with Islam
David Runciman: Why Vote?
Jenny Turner on Janice Galloway
Mark Ford: Marilynne Robinson
Jenny Diski: Jews & Shoes
Andrew Saint: Eleanor Marx’s Blue Plaque
Matthew Kelly: Postwar Irish Migration
Peter Campbell: Kerb your Enthusiasm
James Scott on Colonial Intelligence Agencies
- Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 by Martin Thomas Buy this book
Matthew Reynolds: Robert Browning
- The Poems of Robert Browning, Vol. III: 1847-61 edited by John Woolford, Daniel Karlin and Joseph Phelan Buy this book
Michael Wood on Max Ophuls
Leah Price: Marginalia in Renaissance England
- Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England by William Sherman Buy this book
Clancy Sigal: Among the Draft-Dodgers
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His book about Courbet, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, was published in 1973. His study of two Poussin landscapes, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing, is out in paperback.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He is a professor of English at University College London.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of The Swimming Pool Library and The Spell, among other novels.
Matthew Kelly lectures in history at the University of Southampton. His first book, The Fenian Ideal and Irish Nationalism 1882-1916, came out this year.
Leah Price teaches English at Harvard. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel.
Jonathan Raban’s most recent books are the essay collection My Holy War and the novel Surveillance.
Matthew Reynolds’s last book was The Realms of Verse; he is now reading a lot of literary translations.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Political Hypocrisy and co-author of Representation, published by Polity Press.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London.
James Scott, the author of Seeing like a State, is a professor of political science and anthropology at Yale and the director of the Program in Agrarian Studies.
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
Clancy Sigal lives in Los Angeles. His last novel to appear in the UK was Zone of the Interior.
Jenny Turner’s novel The Brainstorm is out now in paperback.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
