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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 23 · 4 December 2008
Neal Ascherson: A Future for Abkhazia
Lyn Julius, Adam Shatz, Shankar Gopalakrishnan, Chester Aaron, Patrick Renshaw, Solomon Hughes, David Gordon, Anders Stephanson, Clancy Sigal, Raymond Clayton, Alex Callinicos, Anthony Harding, Tony Colman
Donald MacKenzie: How to Start a Hedge Fund
Adam Phillips: The Wittgensteins and Their Money
- The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh Buy this book
Robert Vitalis: The bin Ladens and Their Money
- The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and Its Fortune by Steve Coll Buy this book
Mahmood Mamdani: Mugabe in Context
Michael Neill on Thomas Middleton
- Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino Buy this book
- Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino Buy this book
Thomas Jones on Malcolm Gladwell
Elizabeth Lowry on Jenny Diski’s new novel
Michael Wood on Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma
Hugh Pennington: Florence Nightingale
- Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge Buy this book
Inga Clendinnen: Convict Culture in Tasmania
Tim Parks on ‘Gomorrah’
- Gomorrah: Italy’s Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano, translated by Virginia Jewiss Buy this book
- Gomorrah directed by Matteo Garrone (2008)
Mark Whittow on Byzantium
Paul Mitchinson: Leoš Janáček
Leah Price: The Death of Stenography
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of Black Sea, among other books. He reported on Georgia in the LRB of 4 March 2004.
John Burnside’s most recent novel is Glister. He teaches at the University of St Andrews.
Inga Clendinnen’s Dancing with Strangers is about the interactions between indigenous Australians and the first generation of British settlers at Port Jackson.
Sarah Howe is writing a doctorate at Christ’s College, Cambridge. She was the winner, in July, of the LRB Young Reviewers Competition.
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.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, is published by Quercus in July.
Donald MacKenzie’s Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed will be published by Oxford. He teaches sociology at Edinburgh University.
Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology, Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University. He is from Uganda.
Paul Mitchinson lives in Toronto.
Michael Neill, who has edited Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling for New Mermaids, is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Auckland.
Ruth Padel is resident poet at Somerset House. ‘The Sea Will Do Us All Good’ was commissioned by the Bristol Festival of Ideas and will appear in A Voyage round Charles Darwin.
Tim Parks’s most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas. A new translation of Machiavelli's The Prince will be published in 2009.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Adam Phillips’s On Kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is out in January.
Leah Price’s books include The Anthology and The Rise of the Novel.
Robert Vitalis is the author of America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier.
Mark Whittow is a fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford and the author of The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
