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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 16 · 14 August 2008
Jonathan Raban: The Virtual Life of Neil Entwistle
Joseph Szczekoski, Janet Malcolm, Jane Elliott, Colin Cohen, Martin Ward, Wendy Walker, George Schlesinger, Mahir Saul, Fred Schwarzbach, Patrick Ainscough
David Simpson: Vietnam’s Ghosts
Jeremy Harding: Serbia after Karadzic
Slavoj Žižek on Radovan Karadzic’s Poetry
Patrick Cockburn: Power Struggles in Iraq
Michael Wood: on ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’
Daniel Soar considers mobile surveillance
Dan Jacobson: Wilhelm von Habsburg
- The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder Buy this book
Michael Wood on ‘The Dark Knight’
Colin Burrow: Two Novels about Lost Bellinis
Philip Oltermann on Thomas Glavinic
- Night Work by Thomas Glavinic, translated by John Brownjohn Buy this book
Hal Foster on Richard Hamilton
Michael Klare on the Oil Crisis
Hilary Mantel: In the Waiting Room
Contributors
Fiona Benson is working on her first book.
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
T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His book about Courbet, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, was published in 1973. His study of two Poussin landscapes, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing, is out in paperback.
Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent on the Independent and has been visiting Iraq since 1977. Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq was published in April.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
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.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Michael Klare is professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy is out in September.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
Philip Oltermann was born in Schleswig-Holstein. He is writing a book about Anglo-German meetings for Faber.
Jonathan Raban’s most recent books are the essay collection My Holy War and the novel Surveillance.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
David Simpson teaches English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern will come out from Cambridge next year.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. His most recent book is In Defence of Lost Causes (Verso).
