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contributors Paul Abbott is an English teacher. He is writing a novel. Houman Barekat is a writer and critic based in London. Owen Bennett-Jones is a columnist for Dawn in Pakistan. Tim Blanning’s latest book is George II: The Lucky King. He is writing a biography of Augustus ‘the Strong’ of Saxony and Poland. James Blitz was formerly Whitehall editor at the Financial Times. Fergus Butler-Gallie’s Priests de la Résistance! is out in paperback. Anoosh Chakelian is Britain editor at the New Statesman. Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Ian Critchley is a freelance writer and reviewer. Anthony Cummins is a freelance writer. Richard Davenport-Hines wrote the entry on Chips Channon in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dennis Duncan’s Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure has recently been published by Allen Lane. Rebecca Earle is a historian of food and of Spanish America at the University of Warwick. Her most recent book is Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato (Cambridge University Press). John Gribbin is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and author of Computing with Quantum Cats (Black Swan). Anna Groundwater is principal curator of Renaissance and early modern history at National Museums Scotland. James Hall is an art critic and historian. His most recent book is The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History (Thames & Hudson). Philip Hensher’s most recent novel is A Small Revolution in Germany (Fourth Estate). Ferelith Hordon used to be a children’s librarian and is now an editor at the International Board on Books for Young People. Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent. His most recent book is The Midlife Mind. Sheena Joughin has published two novels and scripted the animated documentary Men Talk About Mother (2017). Roberta Klimt is a Leverhulme early career fellow at King’s College London, working on Milton and the Italian questione della lingua. Frank Lawton is a freelance critic, among other things. Dmitri Levitin studies the history of knowledge. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Susie Mesure is a freelance writer and interviewer living in London. Keith Miller works at the Telegraph. Noonie Minogue is an artist, translator and author of Nero the Singing Emperor and Markos Vamvakaris: The Man & the Bouzouki. Steven Nadler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent books are Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live & How to Die (Princeton) and, with Larry Shapiro, When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves (Princeton). Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. Linda Porter is a historian and author. Her latest book, Mistresses: Sex & Scandal at the Court of Charles II, is published by Picador. Kevin Power teaches in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. His novel White City is published by Scribner UK. Jane Ridley’s George V: Never a Dull Moment will be published by Chatto in November. Leo Robson is lead fiction reviewer and contributing writer at the New Statesman. Matthew Rubery is Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book (2016). Miranda Seymour’s books include In Byron’s Wake and Mary Shelley. N J Stallard is a writer and editor based in London. James Stourton’s book Heritage will be published in 2022. Tim Summers is an assistant professor at the Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Jonathan Sumption is a historian and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Alan Taylor is currently editing Alan Rickman’s diaries and writing an Edinburgh memoir. Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator. His new book, The Good, the Bad and the Greedy: Why We’ve Lost Faith in Capitalism, is published this month. Richard Vinen teaches history at King’s College London. William Whyte is Professor of Social and Architectural History at St John’s College, Oxford. With Dan Hicks, he is general editor of A Cultural History of Objects. Hannah Williams is a writer and critic based in London. Frances Wilson’s most recent book, Burning Man: The Ascent of D H Lawrence, was published in May by Bloomsbury. Lucy Wooding is Langford Fellow and Tutor in History at Lincoln College, Oxford. Literary Review | october 2021 4
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Paul Abbott is an English teacher. He is writing a novel. Houman Barekat is a writer and critic based in London. Owen Bennett-Jones is a columnist for Dawn in Pakistan. Tim Blanning’s latest book is George II: The Lucky King. He is writing a biography of Augustus ‘the Strong’ of Saxony and Poland. James Blitz was formerly Whitehall editor at the Financial Times. Fergus Butler-Gallie’s Priests de la Résistance! is out in paperback. Anoosh Chakelian is Britain editor at the New Statesman. Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Ian Critchley is a freelance writer and reviewer. Anthony Cummins is a freelance writer. Richard Davenport-Hines wrote the entry on Chips Channon in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dennis Duncan’s Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure has recently been published by Allen Lane. Rebecca Earle is a historian of food and of Spanish America at the University of Warwick. Her most recent book is Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato (Cambridge University Press). John Gribbin is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and author of Computing with Quantum Cats (Black Swan). Anna Groundwater is principal curator of Renaissance and early modern history at National Museums Scotland. James Hall is an art critic and historian. His most recent book is The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History (Thames & Hudson). Philip Hensher’s most recent novel is A Small Revolution in Germany (Fourth Estate).

Ferelith Hordon used to be a children’s librarian and is now an editor at the International Board on Books for Young People. Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent. His most recent book is The Midlife Mind. Sheena Joughin has published two novels and scripted the animated documentary Men Talk About Mother (2017). Roberta Klimt is a Leverhulme early career fellow at King’s College London, working on Milton and the Italian questione della lingua. Frank Lawton is a freelance critic, among other things. Dmitri Levitin studies the history of knowledge. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Susie Mesure is a freelance writer and interviewer living in London. Keith Miller works at the Telegraph. Noonie Minogue is an artist, translator and author of Nero the Singing Emperor and Markos Vamvakaris: The Man & the Bouzouki. Steven Nadler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent books are Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live & How to Die (Princeton) and, with Larry Shapiro, When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves (Princeton). Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. Linda Porter is a historian and author. Her latest book, Mistresses: Sex & Scandal at the Court of Charles II, is published by Picador.

Kevin Power teaches in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. His novel White City is published by Scribner UK. Jane Ridley’s George V: Never a Dull Moment will be published by Chatto in November. Leo Robson is lead fiction reviewer and contributing writer at the New Statesman. Matthew Rubery is Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book (2016). Miranda Seymour’s books include In Byron’s Wake and Mary Shelley. N J Stallard is a writer and editor based in London. James Stourton’s book Heritage will be published in 2022. Tim Summers is an assistant professor at the Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Jonathan Sumption is a historian and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Alan Taylor is currently editing Alan Rickman’s diaries and writing an Edinburgh memoir. Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator. His new book, The Good, the Bad and the Greedy: Why We’ve Lost Faith in Capitalism, is published this month. Richard Vinen teaches history at King’s College London. William Whyte is Professor of Social and Architectural History at St John’s College, Oxford. With Dan Hicks, he is general editor of A Cultural History of Objects. Hannah Williams is a writer and critic based in London. Frances Wilson’s most recent book, Burning Man: The Ascent of D H Lawrence, was published in May by Bloomsbury. Lucy Wooding is Langford Fellow and Tutor in History at Lincoln College, Oxford.

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