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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 21 · 6 November 2008
Colm Tóibín on the Mann Family
- In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story by Andrea Weiss Buy this book
Adrian Fosgood, Brian Cartwright, Alex Fox, Eric Cohen, David McDowall, J.A. Bosworth, Bill Cooke, Christopher Frayling
Jenny Diski on Alastair Campbell’s Dodgy Novel
Pankaj Mishra: After America
- The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria Buy this book
- The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna
Colin Kidd on J.G.A. Pocock
David A. Bell: Spain v. Napoleon
Susan Pedersen: Weimar in Britain
- ‘We Danced All Night’: A Social History of Britain between the Wars by Martin Pugh Buy this book
Adam Shatz: Iraqi Jews
- Memories of Eden: A Journey through Jewish Baghdad by Violette Shamash, edited by Mira Rocca and Tona Rocca Buy this book
- Baghdad, Yesterday: The Making of an Arab Jew by Sasson Somekh Buy this book
Daniel Soar on Underground Bunkers
Matthew Bevis: William Hazlitt
- New Writings of William Hazlitt: Volume I edited by Duncan Wu Buy this book
- New Writings of William Hazlitt: Volume II edited by Duncan Wu Buy this book
- William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu Buy this book
Michael Wood on Fernando Meirelles
- Blindness directed by Fernando Meirelles (2008)
Peter Howarth: Robert Frost’s Prose
- The Collected Prose of Robert Frost edited by Mark Richardson Buy this book
- The Notebooks of Robert Frost edited by Robert Faggen Buy this book
Stephen Burt: The Poetry of Frank Bidart
Elaine Showalter: Laura Bush’s Other Life
Peter Campbell: Renaissance Faces
Rachel Cohen on Zoë Heller
Ervand Abrahamian: How Iran Works
- Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader by Kasra Naji Buy this book
- The Road to Democracy in Iran by Akbar Ganji Buy this book
Roger Bland: Who Owns Antiquities?
- Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage by James Cuno Buy this book
Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Another Booker Flop
Contributors
Ervand Abrahamian’s History of Modern Iran came out in July.
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
Matthew Bevis, whose books include Some Versions of Empson and The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce, is a senior lecturer at the University of York.
Roger Bland is the head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum. He was seconded to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to advise on the Treasure Act 1996.
Stephen Burt is an associate professor of English at Harvard. His collection of essays and reviews, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, is available now.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Rachel Cohen, the author of A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, lives in New York City and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Jenny Diski’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are published by Faber.
Peter Howarth teaches at Queen Mary, University of London and is the author of British Poetry in the Age of Modernism.
Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.
Pankaj Mishra’s most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Beyond.
Susan Pedersen teaches British and European history and political thought at Columbia University.
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam teaches history at UCLA. He is the editor, with David Armitage, of the forthcoming The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, 1760-1840.
Colm Tóibín is a visiting writer at Princeton. His novels include The South, The Heather Blazing, The Master and Brooklyn, which has just been published.
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.
