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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 13 · 5 July 2007
Alastair Crooke: The Case for Hamas
- Hamas: Unwritten Chapters by Azzam Tamimi Buy this book
- Where Now for Palestine? The Demise of the Two-State Solution edited by Jamil Hilal Buy this book
- Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Sara Roy Buy this book
Richard Strier, Dominic Sandbrook, Ian Mortimer, Inigo Thomas, Robert Ferguson, Peter Goodrich, Scott Malcomson, Stephen Bowd
Frank Kermode: Housman’s Pleasures
- The Letters of A.E. Housman edited by Archie Burnett Buy this book
Joshua Kurlantzick: China in Africa
- China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise by Ian Taylor Buy this book
- China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century edited by Joshua Eisenman, Eric Heginbotham and Derek Mitchell Buy this book
- China’s African Policy
- China’s Expanding Role in Africa: Implications for the United States by Bates Gill, Chin-hao Huang and J. Stephen Morrison
- Friends and Interests: China’s Distinctive Links with Africa by Barry Sautman
- African Perspectives on China in Africa edited by Firoze Manji and Stephen Marks Buy this book
- Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier by Harry Broadman Buy this book
Charles Tripp: Invading Iraq in 1914
- Tigris Gunboats: The Forgotten War in Iraq 1914-17 by Wilfred Nunn Buy this book
Scott Sherman: Castro in the New York Times
- The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of the ‘New York Times’ by Anthony DePalma Buy this book
Graham Robb: Who cut the tow rope?
- Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece by Jonathan Miles Buy this book
Mark Greif on Don DeLillo
Evan Hughes on Jonathan Lethem
J. Hoberman: The CIA’s Animal Farm
Adam Phillips: Meanings of Impotence
Michael Wood on Tony Harrison
William Wootten: Alun Lewis and ‘Frieda’
Mary Beard on Jessica Mitford
- Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford edited by Peter Sussman
Sheila Fitzpatrick on Mozart
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography by Piero Melograni, translated by Lydia Cochrane Buy this book
- Mozart: The First Biography by Franz Niemetschek, translated by Helen Mautner Buy this book
- Mozart’s Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music by Jane Glover Buy this book
Peter Campbell: How We Are
Chaohua Wang: Remembering Tiananmen
Contributors
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Alastair Crooke, who helped facilitate a number of ceasefires in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between 2001 and 2003, was a member of the Mitchell Commission on the causes of the second intifada and a special adviser to Javier Solana.
Sheila Fitzpatrick’s latest book (edited with Carolyn Rasmussen) is Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-40s.
Jorie Graham’s new collection, Sea Change, will be out in the spring.
Mark Greif is co-editor of the magazine n+1.
J. Hoberman is senior film critic for the Village Voice and the author of The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties.
Evan Hughes lives in Brooklyn.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Joshua Kurlantzick is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World.
R.F. Langley’s Collected Poems came out from Carcanet in 2000 and a later collection, The Face of It, also from Carcanet, in 2007. Shearsman Books published his prose Journals in 2006.
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.
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century was published in 2003.
Scott Sherman is a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review.
Charles Tripp teaches Middle Eastern politics at SOAS. The third edition of A History of Iraq was published last year.
Chaohua Wang, the editor of One China, Many Paths, was a member of the standing committee of the Beijing Autonomous Association of College Students in the spring of 1989, and after 4 June was on the Chinese government’s most-wanted list. Her article in this issue is based on two texts, originally written in Chinese, commemorating 4 June this year and last year.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
William Wootten sells books, when not reviewing them.
