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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 14 · 19 July 2007
Jeremy Harding: Walter Benjamin’s Last Day
David Fisher, Bill Tilles, Niall Mulholland, Sean Coleman, David Elstein, George Paizis, Michael Egan, Graham Pechey
Tariq Ali: Saudi Oil
- America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier by Robert Vitalis Buy this book
- Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation by Madawi Al-Rasheed Buy this book
Matthew Reynolds: Dryden
- The Poems of John Dryden: Vol. V 1697-1700 edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins Buy this book
- Dryden: Selected Poems edited by Paul Hammond and David Hopkins Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Cranach’s Nudes
Robert Alter: Bible Writers
- Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible by Karel van der Toorn Buy this book
Leo Turner: Daniel Alarcón
Christopher Tayler: Joshua Ferris
- Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Sameer Rahim: Islamic Extremism
John Lanchester: Manhunt 2
James Davidson: Ancient Cults
Jonathan Wright: Hitler’s Wartime Economy
Michael Wood: Marlon Brando
R.W. Johnson: Agent Zigzag
Peter Clarke: Schumpeter
- Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw Buy this book
David Nasaw: Andrew Mellon
David Runciman: Dylan on the radio
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.
Robert Alter teaches Hebrew and comparative literature at Berkeley. His translation of Psalms, with a commentary, will be published by Norton in the autumn.
Julian Bell is the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which came out last month.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Peter Clarke’s book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Indian independence in August.
James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Jorie Graham’s new collection, Sea Change, will be out in the spring.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
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.
David Nasaw, the author of a biography of Andrew Carnegie, is Arthur Schlesinger Jr Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Sameer Rahim works at the Daily Telegraph.
Matthew Reynolds holds a Leverhulme fellowship at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Designs for a Happy Home, a novel, will be published next spring.
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.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Leo Turner lives in London.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Jonathan Wright is a professor of international relations and a fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. Germany and the Origins of the Second World War will appear in the autumn.
