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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 6 · 19 March 1998
Wendy Doniger: Twins
- Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery of Identity by Lawrence Wright
Ian Gilmour at the Terminal 5 Enqiry
Sherry Turkle: The Seduction Theory
- Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory by Ian Hacking
Paul Seabright, Michael Meadmore, Lorne Loxterkamp, Christopher Hitchens, Arthur Schlesinger Jr
John Sutherland on Matthew Arnold
- A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold by Ian Hamilton
Sandra Gilbert on D.H. Lawrence
- D.H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-30 by David Ellis
Penelope Fitzgerald on Humbert Wolfe
- Harlequin in Whitehall: A Life of Humbert Wolfe by Philip Bagguley
Jeremy Waldron
- Seeing a Colour-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race by Patricia Williams
- Colour Conscious: The Political Morality of Race by Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann
- Race: The History of an Idea in the West by Ivan Hannaford
Olivier Todd on the end of French Algeria
- The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War (1954-62)
Timothy Garton Ash on delatology
- Accusatory Practices: Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989 edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Gellately
Hilary Mantel on Idi Amin (Dada)
- The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
Alexander Star
- Purple America by Rick Moody
Alexander Murray
- The Autumn of the Middle Ages by John Huizinga, translated by Rodney Payton
Peter Campbell
- Bonnard by Timothy Hyman
- Bonnard by Sarah Whitfield and John Elderfield
Iain Sinclair on the Great Ian Penman
- Vital Signs by Ian Penman
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of, among other books, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India and The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.
Penelope Fitzgerald, a frequent and much-missed contributor to the London Review, died in 2000. She wrote three biographies and ten works of fiction, all in print.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He is a professor of English at University College London.
Timothy Garton Ash, a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, was awarded the OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy in 1998. The File: A Personal History is available in paperback from Flamingo.
Sandra Gilbert teaches English at the University of California, Davis. The Madwoman in the Attic, which she wrote with Susan Gubar, came out in 1979. Acts of Attention: The Poems of D.H.Lawrence and Wrongful Death: A Memoir came out in 1990 and 1995.
Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died on 21 September 2007.
Frank Kermode’s most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. He lives in Cambridge.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
Alexander Murray is Praelector of University College, Oxford.
Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances appeared last year. Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire, a documentary fiction, will come out in 2009.
Alexander Star was the editor of Lingua Franca.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Olivier Todd is the author of Albert Camus: A Life.
Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit.
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University Law School, is the author of Law and Disagreement and God, Locke and Equality.