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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 14 · 21 July 2005
Tim Parks salutes Garibaldi
- Rome or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi by Daniel Pick Buy this book
Catherine Conybeare, Guy Hartcup, Anthony Julius, David Elstein, Conrad Cork, Karl Dallas, Don Share
Andrew Bacevich: The Trouble with Generals
- Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-18 edited by Gary Sheffield and John Bourne Buy this book
Maya Jasanoff: Myths of the Mutiny
- The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination by Gautam Chakravarty Buy this book
Daniel Soar on Harry Mathews
- My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews Buy this book
Michael Wood devours James Meek’s new novel
Stephen Sedley: The Era of the Trial
Francis FitzGibbon on the strange world of asylum law
Alain Supiot: The Perils of Thinking in English
John Sturrock in Bloomsbury
David Coward on an uncompromising champion of the French republic
- Memoirs of a Breton Peasant by Jean-Marie Déguignet, translated by Linda Asher Buy this book
Stefan Collini on Herbert Butterfield
- Herbert Butterfield: Historian as Dissenter by C.T. McIntire Buy this book
Peter Campbell: How architects think
E.S. Turner on Bath’s panderer-in-chief
- The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath by John Eglin Buy this book
Laura Quinney encounters a poet on her guard
Sophie Harrison takes blood
Contributors
Andrew Bacevich teaches history and international relations at Boston University. He is the author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics.
Billy Collins, a former US poet laureate, is the author of The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems.
David Coward is emeritus professor of French at the University of Leeds. His translation of Hedi Kaddour’s Waltenberg will be published next spring.
Francis FitzGibbon is a specialist criminal barrister who also sits as a part-time immigration judge. His article is written in a personal capacity.
Sophie Harrison is a first-year medical student.
Maya Jasanoff teaches British and Imperial history at Harvard. Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East is out in paperback.
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.
Tim Parks teaches literary translation at IULM University in Milan and is the author of Translating Style, an analysis of Italian translations of British Modernists. A collection of essays, The Fighter, is published this month.
Laura Quinney is the author of Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth and The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. She teaches at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
Frederick Seidel’s The Cosmos Trilogy is out from Farrar, Straus.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Alain Supiot is a professor of law at the University of Nantes and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His Homo juridicus: Essai sur la fonction anthropologique du Droit will be published soon in English.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
