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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 5 · 8 March 2001
Hermione Lee on Morton Fullerton
- Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton by Marion Mainwaring
Andrew Samuels, Emma Tennant, David Scott, Mike O’Leary, Alexander Urquhart, Tom Paulin, Osman Streater, Mark Mazower, David Edgar, Ruth Murr, Warren Keith Wright, Editor, ‘London Review’
Adrian Woolfson on The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller
- The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller
Neal Ascherson
- D.S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life 1890-1939 by G.S Smith
Adam Phillips
- Bertrand Russell 1921-70: The Ghost of Madness by Ray Monk
James Wood
- Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the 20th Century’s Most Enjoyable Books by John Carey
Stefan Collini
- England: An Elegy by Roger Scruton
- The Faber Book of Landscape Poetry edited by Kenneth Baker
Colin Kidd
- Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World by Roy Porter
Hugh Pennington on the Royal Liverpool Children’s Inquiry
- The Removal, Retention and Use of Human Organs and Tissue from Post-Mortem Examination
Thomas Jones on New Writing
Stephen Sedley
- Questioning Sovereignty: Law, State and Nation in the European Commonwealth by Neil MacCormick
- Waitangi and Indigenous Rights: Revolution, Law and Legitimation by F.M. Brookfield
Mark Leier
- Canada’s Tibet: The Killing of the Innu by Colin Samson and James Wilson et al
- Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo by Kenn Harper
Christopher Prendergast
- Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller by Jackie Wullschlager
Frank Kermode
- The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Declan Kiberd
- The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
Peter Campbell: With Goya and Rembrandt
- Rembrandt the Printmaker by Erik Hinterding and Ger Luijten et al
- Goya: Drawings from His Private Albums edited by Juliet Wilson-Bareau
Claudia Johnson
- The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot by Leah Price
Maria Margaronis
- Blood-Dark Track: A Family History by Joseph O'Neill
Peter Nichols
- The Loss of the Ship 'Essex', Sunk by a Whale by Thomas Nickerson and Owen Chase, edited by Nathaniel Philbrick and Thomas Philbrick et al
Contributors
Neal Ascherson’s latest book is Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is an honorary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air won the 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize. The first volume of his collected poems will be published by the Library of America.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics.
Claudia Johnson teaches English at Princeton. Her books include Jane Austen: Women, Politics and the Novel.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Tobias Jones, a former editorial assistant at the LRB, is the author of the bestselling Dark Heart of Italy.
Frank Kermode’s most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. He lives in Cambridge.
Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin, is the author of Inventing Ireland and Irish Classics.
Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Hermione Lee is the Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at Oxford. Her books include biographies of Virginia Woolf and, most recently, Edith Wharton.
Mark Leier teaches history at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. His most recent book is Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy.
Maria Margaronis is London correspondent for the Nation.
Peter Nichols has sailed most of the way across the Atlantic in a wooden boat and recorded his journey in Sea Change.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
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.
Christopher Prendergast is a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and was the general editor of the Penguin Proust.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
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.
Adrian Woolfson is the author of the The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics and Life without Genes: The History and Future of Genomes. He teaches medicine at Clare College, Cambridge.
