London Review of Books 2008 – 30:1 Articles What I Didn't Do in 2007 Alan Bennett's Year Letters Max Zweig, Joel Berglund
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London Review of Books * A Life of Picasso, Vol. III: The Triumphant Years 1917-32 by John 2008 – 30:1 Richardson Articles Gloomy/Cheerful What I Didn’t Do in 2007 Tom Shippey on Norse mythology Alan Bennett’s year * From Asgard to Valhalla: The Letters Remarkable History of the Norse Myths by Heather O’Donoghue Max Zweig, Joel Berglund, David Graeber, Sam Abrams, Simon Cape of Mad Hope Blackburn, Jerry Coyne, Philip Kitcher, Tim Lewens and Steven Rose, Jerry Neal Ascherson on the Darien disaster Fodor, Sheldon Litt, Richard McClean, James Valentine, Nazir Dhoki * The Price of Scotland: Darien, Cityphilia Union and the Wealth of Nations by Douglas Watt John Lanchester on the credit crunch Marvellous Money Short Cuts Michael Wood: Eça de Queirós Adam Shatz: Condoleezza Rice subscriber-only content Brown and * The Maias: Episodes from Romantic Friends Life by José Maria Eça de Queirós, translated by Margaret Jull Costa David Runciman: Brown and Friends subscriber-only content Success and A Man with My Trouble James Maxton Colm Tóibín: Henry James leaves home Inigo Thomas: Success and James Maxton * The Complete Letters of Henry subscriber-only content In Your Guts James, 1855-72: Volume I edited by You Know He’s Nuts Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias Thomas Sugrue on Barry Goldwater * The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volume II edited by * The Conscience of a Conservative Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias by Barry Goldwater Bon Viveur in Cuban Heels Poem: ‘Day Off’ Julian Bell on Picasso Jorie Graham Baggy and Thin Susan Eilenberg: Annie Dillard * The Maytrees by Annie Dillard Loot, Looter, Looted Peter Howarth: John Haynes * Letter to Patience by John Haynes 77 Barton Street Dave Haslam on Joy Division * Juvenes: The Joy Division Photographs of Kevin Cummins * Joy Division: Piece by Piece by Paul Morley * Control directed by Anton Corbijn (0000) At the British Museum Craig Clunas on the Terracotta Army Diary Ben Anderson in Afghanistan London Review of Books David Hollinger: God and Politics 2008 – 30:2 * The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics Articles and the Modern West by Mark Lilla That Wilting Flower Three Poems Hilary Mantel: The Lure of the Hugo Williams Unexplained At the National Gallery * Chambers Dictionary of the Peter Campbell: Good Enough to Eat Unexplained edited by Una McGovern Coruscating on Thin Ice Letters Terry Eagleton: The Divine Spark Martha Roth, Alan Myers, Charles * Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins Turner, Anthony Rudolf, Glenn Lang, by Peter Conrad Slavoj Žižek, Ross McKibbin, Stephen Sasse, Eamonn Grogan, Rob Best, John Short Cuts Gretton, Ben Bollig, Valentin Lyubarsky, Donal Ó Drisceoil, Cliff Thomas Jones: Blogged Down Hawkins, Robert Berold subscriber-only content Red Flowers, at a Wedding? Not a Pretty Sight Tessa Hadley on Claire Keegan Jenny Diski: Who Are You Calling Ugly? * Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan * On Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco Reading with No Clothes on Living It Michael Hofmann: Guernsey’s Bard Andrew O’Hagan: The World of Andy McNab * The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards * Crossfire by Andy McNab * Strike Back by Chris Ryan When We Were Nicer Praise Yah Steven Mithen: History Seen as Neurochemistry Eliot Weinberger on the Psalms * On Deep History and the Brain by * The Book of Psalms: A Translation Daniel Lord Smail with Commentary by Robert Alter Separation Anxiety Poem: ‘Really’ Robert Crawford At the Polling Station in Kibera Daniel Branch: The Elections in Kenya The Project O.A. Westad: The Downtrodden Majority * The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad At the Movies Michael Wood on ‘Lust, Caution’ * Lust, Caution directed by Ang Lee (2007) The Ghostwriter’s Story James Sanders: Colombia’s History of Violence * Evil Hour in Colombia by Forrest Hylton Iran’s Bomb: A Revision Norman Dombey: Iran’s Bomb: A Revision Diary Eric Hobsbawm: Memories of Weimar London Review of Books The Ticking Fear 2008 – 30:3 John Kerrigan on Louis MacNeice Articles * Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems edited by Peter McDonald Who was he? * Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems edited by Michael Longley Charles Nicholl: Joe the Ripper * I Crossed the Minch by Louis MacNeice * The Fox and the Flies: The World of * The Strings Are False: An Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath Unfinished Autobiography by Louis by Charles van Onselen MacNeice, edited by E.R. Dodds Letters With Slip and Slapdash Augustus Young, Andreas Wesemann, Frank Kermode: Auden’s Prose W.G. Runciman, George Poles, Michael Goldsmith, Sean Gallagher, John * The Complete Works of W.H. Sutherland, Philip Booth Auden. Vol. III: Prose, 1949-55 edited This Way to the Ruin by Edward Mendelson David Runciman on the British ‘Derek, please, not so fast’ Constitution Ferdinand Mount on Derek Jackson * The British Constitution by Anthony * As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of King Derek Jackson by Simon Courtauld Disaffiliate, Reaffiliate, Kill Again Short Cuts Jeremy Harding: Régis Debray Daniel Soar on the Arts Council Wall of Ice * Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography by Régis Debray, Peter Thonemann: Pattison’s translated by John Howe Scholarship Gaza’s Future * Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Henry Siegman: Breaching the Barrier Invention of the Don by H.S. Jones Planes, Trains and SUVs Who has the biggest books? Jonathan Raban on James Meek Craig Clunas: Missionaries in China * We Are Now Beginning Our Descent by James Meek * Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 by Liam Matthew Brockey At the Royal Academy Peter Campbell: From Russia Rolling Back the Reformation Eamon Duffy: Bloody Mary’s Church Floating Medicine Chests Steven Shapin on the Dutch East India Company * Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold Cook Warp Speed Frank Close: Gravitational Waves * Travelling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves by Daniel Kennefick The Eagle and the Beetle Jean de La Fontaine The Next Fix Lara Pawson: African Oil * Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson * Oil Wars edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said * Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil by John Ghazvinian Diary Alison Light: In Portsmouth London Review of Books * City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek 2008 – 30:4 Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons Articles A, E, C, B Ordained as a Nation Paul Driver: Robert Schumann Pankaj Mishra: Exporting Democracy * Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician by John Worthen * The Wilsonian Moment: Self- * The Cambridge Companion to Determination and the International Schumann edited by Beate Perrey Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by * Schumann’s Late Style by Laura Erez Manela Tunbridge Letters At the Movies Karon Monaghan, Jenny Chamier Michael Wood: ‘No Country for Old Grove, Malcolm Deas, Robert Steele, Men’ Ian Birchall, Chris Sinha, Eric Hobsbawm, Eric Dickens, Michael Hill, * No Country for Old Men directed by Martin Ward, Ted McFadyen, Hugh Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2008) Wright, Natalie Matter Friendly Fire Pretty Letters Bernard Porter: Torching the White Megan Marshall: The Death of Edgar House Allan Poe * Fusiliers: Eight Years with the * Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Redcoats in America by Mark Urban Ackroyd * 1812: War with America by Jon Latimer What Life Says to Us Poem: ‘Glamourie’ Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley Kathleen Jamie * The Collected Poems of Robert Mr Big & Co Creeley: 1945-75 * The Collected Poems of Robert Denis Feeney: Roman Victory! Creeley: 1975-2005 * On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay * The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard by Robert Creeley * Selected Poems: 1945-2005 by Glorious and Most Glorious City of the Robert Creeley, edited by Benjamin Oxyrhinchites Friedlander Christopher Kelly on Roman Egypt Short Cuts * A Godly Hero: The Life of William Hugh Pennington: Bluetongue Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin Drowned in Eau de Vie Diary Modris Eksteins: New, Fast and Modern Richard Gott: Paraguayan Power * Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay Poem: ‘Signs of the Times’ Mark Ford Snapshotism Mary Ann Caws: Picabia's Dada * I Am a Beautiful Monster by Francis Picabia, translated by Marc Lowenthal * The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris by George Baker Ave, Jeeves! Emily Wilson: Rom(an) Com * Plautine Elements in Plautus by Eduard Fraenkel, translated by Tomas Drevikovsky and Frances Muecke * Plautus: ‘Asinaria – The One about the Asses’ translated by John Henderson * Terence: The Comedies translated by Peter Brown * Terence: Comedies translated by Frederick Clayton At Christie’s Paul Myerscough: Buying Art Whoopers and Shouters James Morone: on William Jennings Bryan London Review of Books Is It Glamorous? 2008 – 30:5 David Simpson: Stefan Collini among the Intellectuals Articles * Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Riots, Terrorism etc Britain by Stefan Collini John Lanchester: The Great British Press Short Cuts Disaster Jeremy Harding on Commemoration * Flat Earth News by Nick Davies Where Did the Hatred Go? Letters Adam Phillips: Criticism without Malice Edward Pearce, Eamon Duffy, Aram Saroyan, Jenny Diski, Andrew * A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Jotischky, David Edgerton, Frank Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe Kermode, Ian Blake, Jonathan Smith, by Geoffrey Hartman Joshua Rahtz, Denis Feeney Iraq, 2 May 2005 A Lone Enraptured Male Andrew O’Hagan: Two Soldiers Kathleen Jamie: The Cult of the Wild