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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 20 · 21 October 2004
Colm Tóibín on biographical empathy
- My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy Buy this book
- Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn Buy this book
Ilan Pappe, Maurice Vile, Alan Gabbey, Hugh Pennington, Janet L. Nelson, Grant MacLean, Julian Rathbone
David Runciman on Blair’s conference speech
John Lanchester: Britain’s new class divide
Ian Sansom on Anthony Powell
Christopher Tayler on disappointing sequels
Colin Burrow on writing (and reading) charitably
Ian Hacking: Religion’s evolutionary origins
- In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran
Jerry Fodor on Kripke
- Kripke: Names, Necessity and Identity by Christopher Hughes Buy this book
Hilary Mantel: Growing up in Ghana
- Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl by John Chernoff Buy this book
- Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl by John Chernoff Buy this book
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Buy this book
Thomas Jones: Bob Dylan’s Tall Tales
Chalmers Johnson: ‘A classic study of blowback’
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to 10 September 2001 by Steve Coll Buy this book
A Security Guard: Close protection in Baghdad
Jonathan Steele on Chechnya
Terry Castle: The lesbian scarcity economy
Nicholas Penny on The Age of Titian
Adam Phillips on Sándor Márai and the myth of redemptive love
- Conversations in Bolzano by Sándor Márai, translated by George Szirtes
James Lasdun with the rent-collector
Contributors
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com
Jerry Fodor teaches philosophy and psychology at Rutgers University
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Chalmers Johnson was a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the CIA from 1967 to 1972. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, is out this month.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Lanchester has been given this year’s E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Family Romance, is out in paperback.
James Lasdun’s novel, The Horned Man, appeared in 2002. His most recent book of poetry is Landscape with Chainsaw.
Hilary Mantel whose books include A Place of Greater Safety, Giving up the Ghost and Beyond Black, is working on a new novel called Wolf Hall.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Robin Robertson’s Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea was published by Vintage this year.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. Political Hypocrisy came out earlier this year.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
A Security Guard
Jonathan Steele is the Guardian’s senior foreign correspondent.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
