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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 10 · 19 May 2005
Frank Kermode: The Adventures of William Empson
- William Empson: Vol. I: Among the Mandarins by John Haffenden Buy this book
Niall Ferguson, Neil Vickers, Richard Guy, Geoffrey Best, David Seddon, Sydney Bernard Smith, Graham Brown, Timothy Knapman
Ross McKibbin: Feckless, Irresponsible and Back in Power
Robert Irwin on the invariably savage Tamerlane
- Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi Buy this book
Corey Robin: In the Name of National Security
Eric Foner reports on America’s bad wars
- The Dominion of War: Empire and conflict in North America 1500-2000 by Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton Buy this book
Ilan Pappe: de-Arabisation
James Morone traces America’s ‘base cupidity’
- Born Losers: A History of Failure in America by Scott Sandage Buy this book
Thomas Jones: ‘The Dinner Party’
Partha Dasgupta: What Environmentalism Overlooks
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond Buy this book
Eleanor Birne on the life and death of Stuart Shorter
Elizabeth Lowry: Hilary Mantel’s Fiends
Theo Tait: The Difficult Fiction of Cynthia Ozick
August Kleinzahler: Lee Harwood’s risky poems
Peter Campbell: Matisse’s revelations
Ian Gilmour on the disgraceful Lady Caroline Lamb
Carolin Crawford explains the Universe
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene Buy this book
Patrick Cockburn reports from a divided Iraq
Contributors
Eleanor Birne lives in London.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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.
Carolin Crawford is a Royal Society reseach fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Partha Dasgupta’s most recent book was Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment. He is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at Cambridge and a fellow of St John’s College.
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. His most recent book is Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died on 21 September 2007.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, will be published by Quercus in July.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.
James Morone is a professor of politics at Brown University and the author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. His next book will be George Washington’s Revenge.
Ilan Pappe teaches in the political science department at Haifa University and is the chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Israel.
Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
David Wheatley, whose collections include Thirst, Misery Hill and Mocker, teaches at Hull.
