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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 24 · 16 December 2004
Malcolm Bull on Giorgio Agamben
- State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben, translated by Kevin Attell Buy this book
John Roberts, Stephen Sasse, John Beverley, R.W. Johnson, Martin Shaw, Avril Mailer, Terry O’Sullivan, Noel Hannon, Kenneth Meyer, Steve Lane, Anthony Moore, Oliver Pretzel, Paul Cherulnik, Jim Valentine, Brendan Carroll, Martin Ward, Bob Sterry, Tony Caston, Dave Robinson
Martin Puchner on a state of exception
David Edgar on the Angry Brigade
- The Angry Brigade: The Cause and the Case by Gordon Carr Buy this book
- Granny Made Me an Anarchist by Stuart Christie Buy this book
Tom Paulin on John Bunyan
- Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent by Richard Greaves Buy this book
- Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan by Michael Davies Buy this book
- The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ by Isabel Hofmeyr
Norma Clarke on one of the first bluestockings
Frank Kermode on a great forger of the nineteenth century
- John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the 19th Century by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman Buy this book
Charles Nicholl: The Da Vinci Codices
Thomas Jones reckons angels aren’t what they used to be
Hal Foster: The Trouble with MoMA
Jason Pugatch: ‘Target America: Traffickers, Terrorists and You’
James Wood on David Bezmozgis
Amit Chaudhuri on Raj Kamal Jha
- If You Are Afraid of Heights by Raj Kamal Jha
Peter Campbell on Zaha Hadid
Wayne Koestenbaum on the sex life of Rudolph Valentino
- Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino by Emily Leider Buy this book
R.W. Johnson on Basil D’Oliveira and racism in sport
- Basil D’Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story by Peter Oborne
- Reflections on a Life in Sport by Sam Ramsamy and Edward Griffiths Buy this book
Contributors
Malcolm Bull is the head of art history and theory at the Ruskin in Oxford. His books include Seeing Things Hidden: Apocalypse, Vision and Totality.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Norma Clarke is the author of Dr Johnson’s Women and The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters. She teaches in the English Departmentat Kingston University in Surrey.
David Edgar is currently adapting Julian Barnes’s Arthur and George for the stage and writing a new play for Out of Joint.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Charles Glass has recently published two books on the Middle East, The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in France during the German occupation.
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.
Wayne Koestenbaum has published 12 books of poetry, criticism and fiction, including Bestselling Jewish Porn Films, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, Andy Warhol and Cleavage. His newest is Hotel Theory.
R.F. Langley’s Collected Poems came out from Carcanet in 2000 and a later collection, The Face of It, also from Carcanet, in 2007. Shearsman Books published his prose Journals in 2006.
Charles Nicholl’s most recent book is The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Martin Puchner teaches in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia. His most recent book is Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes.
Jason Pugatch’s Acting Is a Job will be published by the Allworth Press in 2006. He lives in New York.
Mark Rudman’s last collection was Sundays on the Phone; he is working on a new one, to be called On the Firing Line.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
