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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 1 · 3 January 2008
Max Zweig, Joel Berglund, David Graeber, Sam Abrams, Simon Blackburn, Jerry Coyne, Philip Kitcher, Tim Lewens and Steven Rose, Jerry Fodor, Sheldon Litt, Richard McClean, James Valentine, Nazir Dhoki
John Lanchester on the credit crunch
Michael Wood: Eça de Queirós
- The Maias: Episodes from Romantic Life by José Maria Eça de Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa Buy this book
Colm Tóibín: Henry James leaves home
- The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volume I edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias Buy this book
- The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volume II edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias Buy this book
Julian Bell on Picasso
- A Life of Picasso, Vol. III: The Triumphant Years 1917-32 by John Richardson Buy this book
Tom Shippey on Norse mythology
- From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths by Heather O’Donoghue Buy this book
Neal Ascherson on the Darien disaster
- The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations by Douglas Watt Buy this book
Adam Shatz: Condoleezza Rice
David Runciman: Brown and Friends
Inigo Thomas: Success and James Maxton
Thomas Sugrue on Barry Goldwater
- The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater Buy this book
Susan Eilenberg: Annie Dillard
Peter Howarth: John Haynes
Dave Haslam on Joy Division
- Juvenes: The Joy Division Photographs of Kevin Cummins
- Joy Division: Piece by Piece by Paul Morley Buy this book
- Control directed by Anton Corbijn (0000)
Craig Clunas on the Terracotta Army
Ben Anderson in Afghanistan
Contributors
Ben Anderson is a reporter for the BBC and the Discovery Channel.
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.
Julian Bell is the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which came out last month.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Craig Clunas is professor of the history of art at Oxford. His most recent book is Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China.
Susan Eilenberg teaches in the English department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Jorie Graham’s new collection, Sea Change, will be out in the spring.
Dave Haslam is a former Hacienda DJ, now a radio broadcaster on XFM and the author of Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City and Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s.
Peter Howarth teaches at Queen Mary, University of London and is the author of British Poetry in the Age of Modernism.
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 Runciman’s new book is Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
Tom Shippey’s most recent book is a collection of his papers on Tolkien, Roots and Branches; an anthology, The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous, has just won the Mythopoeic Society’s Scholarship Award for 2008.
Thomas Sugrue, Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of a history of civil rights in 20th-century America, due later this year.
Inigo Thomas’s profile of Barack Obama appears in this month’s Esquire.
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.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
