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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 18 · 25 September 2008
Ellen Meiksins Wood: Quentin Skinner’s Detachment
Mazen Labban, Wyatt Mason, Christopher Cordess, James Meek, Doreen Elcox, John McGill
Terry Eagleton: The Reality Effect
- Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History by Ross Hamilton Buy this book
Rosemary Hill reads Penelope Fitzgerald’s Letters
- So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald edited by Terence Dooley Buy this book
Donald MacKenzie: The $300 Trillion Question
Andrew O’Hagan: Norman Lewis’s Inventions
R.W. Johnson: Robbie Gets His Gun
Richard J. Evans: The Nazi Empire
Mark Ford on James Fenimore Cooper
- James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years by Wayne Franklin Buy this book
Frank Kermode: E.M. Forster as Critic
- ‘The Creator as Critic’ and Other Writings by E.M. Forster, edited by Jeffrey Heath Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Osbert Lancaster’s Promontory
Sam Thompson on Howard Jacobson
Thomas Jones: The Novel as Computer Game
Owen Bennett-Jones in the North-West Frontier Province
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Owen Bennett-JonesOwen Bennett-Jones’s Pakistan: Eye of the Storm was published in 2003 and a second edition is on the way. He is currently working on a series of documentaries on al-Qaida for BBC radio.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Richard J. Evans’s Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years has been reissued with a new afterword. He is a professor of history at Cambridge.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He is a professor of English at University College London.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
R.W. Johnson is an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His new book, South Africa’s Brave New World, will be published by Penguin in the spring.
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.
Donald MacKenzie’s Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed will be published by Oxford. He teaches sociology at Edinburgh University.
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.
Sam Thompson lives in Belfast.
Ellen Meiksins Wood’s latest book is Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
