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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 22 · 20 November 2008
Michael Wood: Kafka in the Office
- Franz Kafka: The Office Writings edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg and Benno Wagner, translated by Eric Patton and Ruth Hein Buy this book
Pankaj Mishra, Paul Thomson, Oliver Rivers, Helmut Simon, Ronald Fraser, Scott Stucky, Graham Falconer, Martin Southwood, David Maclagan, Tony Scull, Garth Clarke
Elif Batuman: How to Stay Sane
- Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida by Elisabeth Roudinesco, translated by William McCuaig Buy this book
R.W. Johnson: The Undoing of the ANC
- Cyril Ramaphosa by Anthony Butler Buy this book
- After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey inside the ANC by Andrew Feinstein
- Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred by Mark Gevisser Buy this book
Peter Davies: Harold Wilson and Vietnam
Thomas Sugrue: Stars, Stripes and Civil Rights
- The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph that Shocked America by Louis Masur Buy this book
Peter Campbell on Ben Nicholson
Steven Shapin: Joseph Hooker and the Dead Foreign Weeds
- Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science by Jim Endersby
Andrew O’Hagan: Voices from Beyond the Grave
Geoffrey Hawthorn: Histories of Histories
- A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the 20th Century by John Burrow
- What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe by Anthony Grafton Buy this book
- The Theft of History by Jack Goody Buy this book
- Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History by Darien Shanske Buy this book
Haukur Már Helgason on the Icelandic Crisis
Eliane Glaser: Concentration Camp Memoirs
- Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler by Margarete Buber-Neumann, translated by Edward Fitzgerald Buy this book
Jonathan Coe: Alasdair Gray
Thomas Keymer on Henry Fielding
- Plays: Vol. II, 1731-34 by Henry Fielding, edited by Thomas Lockwood Buy this book
- ‘The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon’, ‘Shamela’ and ‘Occasional Writings’ by Henry Fielding, edited by Martin Battestin, with Sheridan Baker and Hugh Amory
Ange Mlinko: Ginsberg Goes to India
Keith Gessen: Watching the Rouble Go Down
Contributors
John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air won the 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize. The first volume of his collected poems will be published by the Library of America.
Elif Batuman, who completed her PhD last year, lives in San Francisco.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jonathan Coe’s novel The House of Sleep won the Prix Médicis. The Rain before It Falls is out from Viking.
Peter Davies has recently completed an MPhil at Wadham College, Oxford.
Keith Gessen is a founding editor of n+1 and the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men.
Eliane Glaser is the author of Judaism without Jews.
Geoffrey Hawthorn has just retired as a professor of politics at Cambridge.
Haukur Már Helgason teaches philosophy at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. He is a founding member of the experimental literary band Nýhil.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Jackman Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His Oxford World’s Classics edition of Robinson Crusoe appeared this year.
Ange Mlinko’s most recent book of poetry is Starred Wire. She lives in the Hudson Valley.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation was published last autumn.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Thomas Sugrue, Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of a history of civil rights in 20th-century America, due later this year.
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.
