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Contents
Vol. 31 No. 1 · 1 January 2009
Alan Bennett eats his lunch
Josh Foster, Timothy Scarnecchia, Jocelyn Alexander and 33 others, Gavin Kitching, Mahmood Mamdani, Gaiutra Bahadur, Hugh Pennington, Damian Smyth, Edward Pearce, Noah McCormack, Brian Lee
James Wolcott: Updike should stay at home
Michael Wood on ‘The Alexandria Quartet’
John Lanchester on video games
Bee Wilson on Pinocchio
- Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, translated by Geoffrey Brock Buy this book
Adam Shatz: The Greek Uprising
Andrew O’Hagan: The Misfit
David Edgar on Theatrical Families
Mark Ford on Edward Thomas
- Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems edited by Edna Longley Buy this book
Michael Wood: Harvey Milk
- Milk directed by Gus Van Sant (0000)
Malcolm Bull: How to be a community
- Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy by Roberto Esposito, translated by Timothy Campbell Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Saul Steinberg’s Playful Modernism
Siddhartha Deb: The Story of Partition
- The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan Buy this book
- The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar Buy this book
McGuire Gibson on the Theft of Iraq’s Antiquities
Contributors
Alan Bennett’s play Enjoy, first seen in 1980, opens at the Gielgud Theatre at the end of this month.
Malcolm Bull is the author of Seeing Things Hidden and Anti-Nietzsche, out shortly from Verso.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Siddhartha Deb, a writer in residence at the New School in New York, is working on a study of contemporary India.
David Edgar’s plays include The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Playing with Fire and, most recently, Testing the Echo. He is working on a book about playwriting.
Mark Ford teaches at UCL.
McGuire Gibson is a professor of Mesopotamian archaeology at the University of Chicago.
Lavinia Greenlaw’s most recent book is a memoir, The Importance of Music to Girls.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Hilary Mantel’s most recent novel is Wolf Hall.
Andrew O’Hagan’s book of essays, The Atlantic Ocean, will be out soon in paperback.
Sara Roy teaches at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and is the author of Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
Hugo Williams’s latest collection is Dear Room.
Bee Wilson is the author of Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee.
James Wolcott is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the author of the novel The Catsitters. He is working on a memoir about 1970s Manhattan.
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.
