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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 12 · 23 June 2005
Pankaj Mishra on the Maoists of Nepal
Geoffrey Lehmann, Victor Black, Edward Luttwak, Jonathan Aldred, Mat Pires, Mark Vernon, Carol Hamilton, A.W. Brian Simpson, Donald Gardner
David A. Bell: Bonapartism
- The Legend of Napoleon by Sudhir Hazareesingh Buy this book
- The Retreat by Patrick Rambaud, translated by William Hobson Buy this book
- Napoleon: The Eternal Man of St Helena by Max Gallo, translated by William Hobson Buy this book
- The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in 19th-Century France by Sudhir Hazareesingh Buy this book
- Napoleon and the British by Stuart Semmel Buy this book
Patrick Wright: The Art of Camouflage
- DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material; An Encyclopedia of Camouflage: Nature – Military – Culture Buy this book
Frank Kermode: Snobbery and John Carey
Terry Eagleton on the grand narrative of experience
Thomas Jones: What’s your codename?
David Simpson on psychoanalysing Zionism
Peter Campbell: Under African Eyes
James Wood on Nicole Krauss’s schmaltz
Eleanor Birne: On holiday with Ali Smith
Mary Douglas: Sadducees v. Pharisees
- How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualisation of Ancient Israel by William Schniedewind Buy this book
Nicholas Horsfall on translating Horace
Lorraine Daston discovers why we are so curious.
- The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany by Neil Kenny Buy this book
Hugh Pennington: Planning for Bird Flu
Andrew Sugden: Can we manage without wild forest?
- Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis by Michael Williams Buy this book
Eliot Weinberger: The Terrible Tale of Gu Cheng
Contributors
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
Eleanor Birne lives in London.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Lorraine Daston, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has written on the history of probability, wonders and scientific objectivity.
Mary Douglas is the author of Purity and Danger. Her most recent book is Jacob’s Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation.
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.
Günter Eich (1907-72) was a poet, translator from Chinese and writer of radio plays.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
Nicholas Horsfall taught at University College London for 16 years and has been a private scholar for rather longer. He lives in Wester Ross.
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.
Pankaj Mishra’s most recent book is Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Beyond.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
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.
Andrew Sugden, an editor at Science in Cambridge, used to be a forest ecologist in tropical America.
Eliot Weinberger’s recent books include What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, An Elemental Thing and The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry.
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.
Patrick Wright’s Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War, will be published in October by Oxford. The sequel, which will appear next year, is concerned with Rex Warner, Barbara Castle, Stanley Spencer, Clement Attlee, A.J. Ayer and the other British delegates who visited China in 1954, the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the People’s Republic.
