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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 14 · 17 July 2008
Allen Singer, Jason Farago, Colin Bloch, James Mosley, Peter Bourne, Ophelia Tshabalala, John Morris, Henry Fitch, Tim Gutteridge, Mike Harding
Jeremy Harding on the Dangers of Intervention
John Lanchester: New Labour’s Terrible Memoirs
- Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography by Cherie Blair Buy this book
- Prezza, My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott, with Hunter Davies Buy this book
- A Question of Honour: Inside New Labour and the True Story of the Cash for Peerages Scandal by Michael Levy Buy this book
Andrew O’Hagan on M. Night Shyamalan
Tariq Ali: After Benazir
- Descent into Chaos: How the War against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Buy this book
- Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars within by Shuja Nawaz Buy this book
Benjamin Kunkel: Another Ian McEwan!
Thomas Jones: Spies Wanted
Deborah Friedell on Richard Price
Peter Campbell on the Divisionists and Vilhelm Hammershoi
Frank Kermode: Doris Lessing
Charles Tripp: Muqtada al-Sadr
Diarmaid MacCulloch: The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery by Geoffrey Moorhouse Buy this book
Helen Deutsch: Laetitia Pilkington, ‘Foot-ball of Fortune’
- Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington by Norma Clarke Buy this book
Dinah Birch: Governesses
- Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess by Ruth Brandon Buy this book
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.
Dinah Birch is the author of Our Victorian Education. She teaches at Liverpool University and is the general editor of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Helen Deutsch teaches at UCLA. She is working on a series of essays about lyric form in 18th-century English literature.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He is a professor of English at University College London.
Deborah Friedell is an editor at the London Review.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. He lives in Cambridge.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Benjamin Kunkel’s first novel, Indecision, came out in 2005. He is an editor of n+1, and is at work on a play.
John Lanchester, a contributing editor at the LRB, was given the 2008 E.M. Forster Prize.
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford. His books include Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation, Thomas Cranmer and, most recently, Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Charles Tripp teaches Middle Eastern politics at SOAS. The third edition of A History of Iraq was published last year.
Sean Wilsey is the author of Oh the Glory of It All, a memoir, and the editor, with Matt Weiland, of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, which will be published in the US in September.
