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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 13 · 3 July 2008
Neal Ascherson: Organised Crime
Herbert Solow, Mark Engel, Paul Lindsey, Manjushree Thapa, Charles Bernstein, Paul Brassley, Paul Titchmarsh, Alistair Watson
Ross McKibbin on the Great Education Disaster
Michael Wood on David Lean
John Elliott: When Columbus Met the Natives
- The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus by David Abulafia Buy this book
- Hans Staden’s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil edited and translated by Neil Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier Buy this book
Eliot Weinberger: A Tale of Two Candidates
Uri Avnery: Controversy at the Aipac Conference
Terry Castle: Maude Hutchins’s Revenge
Daniel Soar: David Davis v. Miss Great Britain
Stephen Burt on Philip K. Dick
- Four Novels of the 1960s: ‘The Man in the High Castle’, ‘The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch’, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’, ‘Ubik’ by Philip K. Dick Buy this book
- Five Novels of the 1960s and 1970s: ‘Martian Time-Slip’, ‘Dr Bloodmoney’, ‘Now Wait for Last Year’, ‘Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said’, ‘A Scanner Darkly’ by Philip K. Dick Buy this book
Tobias Gregory: 21st-Century Noir
Clair Wills on Modern Irish History
Ruth Scurr: Marie Antoinette’s Daughter
- Marie-Thérèse: The Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter by Susan Nagel Buy this book
Peter Campbell on Gustav Klimt
John Whitfield: The End of the Coral Reef?
- Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones Buy this book
- A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End by J.E.N. Veron Buy this book
Jenny Diski: On Not Liking South Africa
Contributors
Neal Ascherson is the author of Black Sea, among other books. He reported on Georgia in the LRB of 4 March 2004.
Uri Avnery is a former member of the Knesset and a leader of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc.
Stephen Burt’s new book of criticism is The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence. A collection of his essays on contemporary poets, entitled Close Calls with Nonsense, will appear next year. He teaches at Harvard.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
John Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Oxford. He has published extensively on early modern Spain, Europe and the Americas, and his books include The Old World and the New, 1492-1650, and, most recently, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830.
Tobias Gregory is the author of From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic. He teaches at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC.
Steven Heighton’s most recent book is the novel Afterlands.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Ruth Scurr is the author of Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution. She is a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Eliot Weinberger’s recent books include What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, An Elemental Thing and The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry.
John Whitfield is the author of In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy and the Unity of Nature. He lives in London.
John Hartley Williams’s most recent collection is The Ship. A new volume of poems will appear in the spring.
Clair Wills is professor of Irish literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Her most recent book, That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland during the Second World War, won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History in 2007.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
