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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 19 · 9 October 2008
Alan Hollinghurst: Sissiness
Martin Carrick, Lyn Julius, Nicholas Simmons, Jenny Turner, J. Elfenbein, Paul Edwards
Jonathan Raban: Sarah Palin’s Cunning
Adam Shatz: Obsession with Islam
David Runciman: Why Vote?
Jenny Turner on Janice Galloway
Mark Ford: Marilynne Robinson
Jenny Diski: Jews & Shoes
Andrew Saint: Eleanor Marx’s Blue Plaque
Matthew Kelly: Postwar Irish Migration
Peter Campbell: Kerb your Enthusiasm
James Scott on Colonial Intelligence Agencies
- Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 by Martin Thomas Buy this book
Matthew Reynolds: Robert Browning
- The Poems of Robert Browning, Vol. III: 1847-61 edited by John Woolford, Daniel Karlin and Joseph Phelan Buy this book
Michael Wood on Max Ophuls
Leah Price: Marginalia in Renaissance England
- Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England by William Sherman Buy this book
Clancy Sigal: Among the Draft-Dodgers
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on a book about Picasso between the wars.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about anthropomorphism; her new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published next month by Virago.
Mark Ford teaches in the English department at University College London. This year he has published editions of the poetry of Frank O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg and John Ashbery.
Hal Foster chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Michael Hofmann’s Selected Poems came out in the spring. He has recently been a poet in residence at the Queensland Poetry Festival.
Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004.
Matthew Kelly teaches history at Southampton University. He is writing a book about the experience of Polish refugees in Britain during World War Two.
Leah Price teaches English at Harvard. She is working on a history of the uses books can be put to when they aren’t being read.
Jonathan Raban’s books include Passage to Juneau.
Matthew Reynolds holds a Leverhulme fellowship at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Designs for a Happy Home, a novel, will be published next spring.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. Political Hypocrisy came out earlier this year.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London; his most recent book is Architect and Engineer.
James Scott, the author of Seeing like a State, is a professor of political science and anthropology at Yale and the director of the Program in Agrarian Studies.
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
Clancy Sigal lives in Los Angeles. His last novel to appear in the UK was Zone of the Interior.
Jenny Turner’s The Brainstorm is out in paperback.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
