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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 12 · 19 June 2008
James Davidson: Atlantis at Last!
- The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato’s Myth by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated by Janet Lloyd Buy this book
Verena Mayer and Roland Koberg, Pete Ayrton, Sven Anderson, Richard Davenport-Hines, Slavoj Žižek, Inigo Thomas, Laura Mansnerus, Richard Pevear, Garth Clarke, W.S. Milne, DeAnn DeLuna
Patrick Cockburn: A New Deal for Iraq
Norman Dombey on the Syrian Sting
Terry Eagleton on Theodor Adorno
Uri Avnery: Sleaze in Israeli Politics
Keith Gessen: A Sad Old Literary Man
Peter Campbell: Open Sesame!
Eyal Press on Paul Krugman
- The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America from the Right by Paul Krugman Buy this book
Iain Sinclair: The Razing of East London
John Lanchester: Who’s Afraid of the Library of America?
Colin Burrow: Writing Under Cromwell
Sam Thompson on Will Self
Adam Phillips: A New Model of Sexuality
- Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa Diamond Buy this book
Bee Wilson: The First Detectives
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale Buy this book
Tim Crane: Wilfrid Sellars
- In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars edited by Kevin Scharp and Robert Brandom Buy this book
- Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images by Jay Rosenberg Buy this book
Thomas Jones: The Last Days of eBay
Contributors
Uri Avnery is a former member of the Knesset and a leader of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc.
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.
Patrick Cockburn has been visiting Iraq since 1977. His Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq was published by Faber in April.
Tim Crane is a professor of philosophy at University College London, and the director of the Institute of Philosophy in the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. He is the author of Elements of Mind.
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.
Norman Dombey is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Keith Gessen is a founding editor of n+1 and the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men.
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.
Bill Manhire directs the creative writing programme at Victoria University in Wellington. His newest book of poems is Lifted.
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.
Eyal Press is the author of Absolute Convictions and a regular writer for the Nation. He is working on a book about disobedience and dissent.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances appeared last year. Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire, a documentary fiction, will come out in 2009.
Jean Sprackland’s third collection, Tilt, won this year’s Costa Award for Poetry.
Matthew Sweeney’s most recent collection is Black Moon.
Sam Thompson lives in Belfast.
Bee Wilson is the author of Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee.
