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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 8 · 24 April 2008
T.J. Clark: Courbet and Poussin at the Met
Gordon Ross, Jessica Oh, Stephen Burt, Alyona Kozlova, Slavoj Žižek, Frank Kermode
Peter Campbell: Alexander Rodchenko
Inigo Thomas on the Bushes
- The Bush Tragedy: The Unmaking of a President by Jacob Weisberg Buy this book
Hilary Mantel on Jane Boleyn
- Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox Buy this book
Thomas Jones: The Italian Elections
James Wood on Adam Mars-Jones
Elizabeth Lowry: Carpentaria
Ross McKibbin: Postwar Britain
Stephen Walsh on Wagner
- Wagner and the Art of the Theatre by Patrick Carnegy Buy this book
Patrick Cockburn: Muqtada al-Sadr
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
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.
T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His book about Courbet, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, was published in 1973. His study of two Poussin landscapes, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing, is out in paperback.
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.
David Harsent’s Selected Poems have been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. The Minotaur, his opera with Harrison Birtwistle, has just opened at the Royal Opera House.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
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.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
Colin Simms’s collections include Otters and Martens and Gyrfalcon Poems. A new, expanded version of Afghan Poems will be published this year.
Inigo Thomas’s profile of Barack Obama appears in this month’s Esquire.
Stephen Walsh holds a personal chair in music at Cardiff University. He is working on a study of Musorgsky and the Russian nationalists.
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.
