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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 23 · 4 December 2008
Neal Ascherson: A Future for Abkhazia
Lyn Julius, Adam Shatz, Shankar Gopalakrishnan, Chester Aaron, Patrick Renshaw, Solomon Hughes, David Gordon, Anders Stephanson, Clancy Sigal, Raymond Clayton, Alex Callinicos, Anthony Harding, Tony Colman
Donald MacKenzie: How to Start a Hedge Fund
Adam Phillips: The Wittgensteins and Their Money
- The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh Buy this book
Robert Vitalis: The bin Ladens and Their Money
- The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and Its Fortune by Steve Coll Buy this book
Mahmood Mamdani: Mugabe in Context
Michael Neill on Thomas Middleton
- Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino Buy this book
- Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino Buy this book
Thomas Jones on Malcolm Gladwell
Elizabeth Lowry on Jenny Diski’s new novel
Michael Wood on Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma
Hugh Pennington: Florence Nightingale
- Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge Buy this book
Inga Clendinnen: Convict Culture in Tasmania
Tim Parks on ‘Gomorrah’
- Gomorrah: Italy’s Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano, translated by Virginia Jewiss Buy this book
- Gomorrah directed by Matteo Garrone (2008)
Mark Whittow on Byzantium
Paul Mitchinson: Leoš Janáček
Leah Price: The Death of Stenography
Contributors
Neal Ascherson’s latest book is Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He was the Observer correspondent in Bonn from 1963 to 1968.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Inga Clendinnen’s most recent books are Reading the Holocaust and Tiger’s Eye: A Memoir.
Sarah Howe is writing a doctorate at Christ’s College, Cambridge. She was the winner, in July, of the LRB Young Reviewers Competition.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
August Kleinzahler is the author of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the forthcoming Music: I-LXXIV, Collected Music Writings from Pressed Wafer in Boston.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, will be published by Quercus in July.
Donald MacKenzie teaches sociology at the University of Edinburgh. His research on credit derivatives is being supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.
Mahmood Mamdani, the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror, is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the departments of anthropology, political science and international affairs at Columbia.
Paul Mitchinson lives in Toronto.
Michael Neill, who has edited Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling for New Mermaids, is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Auckland.
Ruth Padel, whose most recent book is Darwin: A Life in Poems, is resident poet at Somerset House.
Tim Parks’s novels include Tongues of Flame, Loving Roger, Europa, Rapids and, most recently, Dreams of Rivers and Seas.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Adam Phillips is the author of Going Sane and Side Effects, among other books. On Kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is out now.
Leah Price teaches English at Harvard. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel.
Robert Vitalis is the author of America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier.
Mark Whittow is a fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford and the author of The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025.
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.
