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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 2 · 26 January 2006
John Lanchester: Is Google a good thing?
- The Google Story by David Vise Buy this book
- The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle
Patrick Collinson, Roderick MacFarquhar, Ed Langley, Trevor Fisher, Seb Schmoller, Peter Hoskins, Lyn Julius, Martin Rollo, D.E. Steward, Siobhan Wall, Steve Cogan, Julian Rathbone
Steven Shapin: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber
- Between Genius and Genocide: The Tragedy of Fritz Haber, Father of Chemical Warfare by Daniel Charles Buy this book
Yitzhak Laor on the Zionist manipulation of history
- Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood by Idith Zertal Buy this book
Tom Nairn on the Jewishness of Karl Marx
- Karl Marx ou l’esprit du monde by Jacques Attali
Ed Harriman: The economics of reconstruction in Iraq
Seamus Perry: Southey’s Genius for Repression
- Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793-1810 edited by Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts Buy this book
Thomas Jones: Politicians and the Press
Elizabeth Spelman on sexual equality
Amanda Claybaugh on E.L. Doctorow
Lorna Scott Fox on Lydie Salvayre
- The Company of Ghosts by Lydie Salvayre, translated by Christopher Woodall Buy this book
Adam Phillips: Diane Arbus
Eleanor Birne: At what point do you become fat?
- Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore
- The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict by William Leith
Peter Campbell on Anthony Powell’s artists
George Ellis on the mathematical universe
- The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose Buy this book
Andrew Saint: Goodbye to the Routemaster
Contributors
Eleanor Birne lives in London.
Elizabeth Bishop’s Edgar Allan Poe and the Jukebox: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments, edited by Alice Quinn, will be published by Farrar, Straus in March.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Amanda Claybaugh teaches in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia.
George Ellis is professor emeritus of applied mathematics at the University of Cape Town.
Ed Harriman is a journalist and television documentary film-maker.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Lanchester has been given this year’s E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Family Romance, is out in paperback.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
Tom Nairn is a researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, concerned with nationalism and the political and cultural effects of globalisation.
Seamus Perry is a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His selection from Coleridge’s notebooks came out in paperback from Oxford in 2003, and his study of Tennyson appeared in 2004.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London.
Lorna Scott Fox is an editor and translator who lives in London.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Elizabeth Spelman teaches philosophy at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is working on a slim book exploring the nature of abundance.
Hugo Williams’s latest collection is Dear Room.
