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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 12 · 21 June 2007
Hilary Mantel: The Many Lives of Elizabeth Marsh
Andrew Sugden, Ken Worpole, Perry Anderson, Tim Jeal, Bernard Porter, Elliot Feldman
Hugh Miles: Who put the bomb on Pan Am 103?
Stephen Walsh: Memories of Shostakovich
- Shostakovich: A Life Remembered by Elizabeth Wilson Buy this book
Terry Eagleton: Bakhtin is Everywhere
- Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World by Graham Pechey Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Antony Gormley
Colin Burrow: ‘Hamlet’ as you like it
- Hamlet edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor Buy this book
- Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor Buy this book
- ‘Hamlet’ without Hamlet by Margreta de Grazia Buy this book
Michael Wood watches L’Armée des ombres
Robert Potts: Poetry in Punglish
Daniel Soar: Putin on Judo
James Wood: Edward P. Jones
Thomas Jones: David Eggers escapes from Sudan
- What Is the What by Dave Eggers
Neal Ascherson remembers the Wall
- The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 – 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor
James Morone: Rebellion of the Rich
- Wall Street: A Cultural History by Steve Fraser Buy this book
- Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier Buy this book
Simon Bradley: In Praise of Peabody
- London in the 19th Century: ‘A Human Awful Wonder of God’ by Jerry White
David Coward: Artilleur Pireaud writes home
- Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna Buy this book
Tariq Ali goes back to Cochabamba
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s new book, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, will be published by Simon and Schuster in September.
Neal Ascherson’s books include The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea. He is an honorary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Simon Bradley is the editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides. St Pancras Station is published by Profile.
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
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Polly Clark’s most recent collection was Take Me with You.
David Coward is emeritus professor of French at the University of Leeds. His translation of Hedi Kaddour’s Waltenberg will be published next spring.
Terry Eagleton’s books include Literary Theory, After Theory and – this month – Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
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.
Hugh Miles has lived in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. He works in London.
James Morone is a professor of politics at Brown University and the author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. His next book will be George Washington’s Revenge.
Robert Potts is an editor at the Times Literary Supplement and a former editor of Poetry Review.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Stephen Walsh holds a personal chair in music at Cardiff University. He is working on a study of Musorgsky and the Russian nationalists.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
