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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 20 · 23 October 2008
John Lanchester: The Crash
Sarah Stern, Adam Shatz, Maurizio Morabito, Edward Burns, David Callahan, John Clayton, Wyatt Mason, Richard Davenport-Hines, Katharine Blair, Jeremy Silk
Ross McKibbin: The Tories and the Financial Crisis
David Bromwich on Reinhold Niebuhr
Neal Ascherson: European Migration to AD 1000
- Europe between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 by Barry Cunliffe Buy this book
Tom Nairn on Patrick Wright
Jeremy Harding: Ezra Pound in Italy
Thomas Jones on the murder of Bishop Gerardi
- The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? by Francisco Goldman Buy this book
Bernard Porter: Lady Hester Stanhope
- Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope by Kirsten Ellis Buy this book
Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Artists’ Wives
- Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cézanne, Monet and Rodin by Ruth Butler Buy this book
Thomas Crow on Joseph Rykwert
- The Judicious Eye: Architecture against the Other Arts by Joseph Rykwert Buy this book
Glyn Maxwell on Aleksandar Hemon
David Runciman: The Problem with English Football
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of Black Sea, among other books. He reported on Georgia in the LRB of 4 March 2004.
David Bromwich teaches English at Yale, has edited a selection of Burke’s speeches, On Empire, Liberty and Reform, and writes on America’s wars for the Huffington Post.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.
Thomas Crow, the author of Painters and Public Life in 18th-Century Paris and Modern Art in the Common Culture, teaches at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Mark Greif is one of the editors of n+1.
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 London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. He lives in Cambridge.
John Lanchester, a contributing editor at the LRB, was given the 2008 E.M. Forster Prize.
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.
Glyn Maxwell’s poetry collection Hide Now and his novel The Girl Who Was Going to Die were both published this year.
Les Murray was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1999; he is published in the UK by Carcanet.
Tom Nairn is assistant director of the Globalism Research Institute at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the author of Global Matrix.
Bernard Porter is an emeritus professor of history, with several books on British imperialism and the secret services to his name. He is currently writing on Victorian architecture and society.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Political Hypocrisy and co-author of Representation, published by Polity Press.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell teaches literature at Yale. Her books include Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature and, most recently, Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.
