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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 18 · 20 September 2001
Thomas Laqueur
- Funerals, Politics and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996 by Avner Ben-Amos
- Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, a Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-de-Siècle France by Neil McWilliam
Bachman Reza, Philip McGarry, Peter Mair, Alan Murray, Bengt Rösiö, Michiel Wijnberg, Davor Butkovic, Daniel Bell, Richard Andrews, Ian MacDougall, Tim Salmon
Tim Radford
- Solly Zuckerman: A Scientist out of the Ordinary by John Peyton
Alison Jolly on primate behaviour
- Tree of Origin: What Primate Behaviour Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution edited by Frans de Waal
- The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections by a Primatologist by Frans de Waal
Colm Tóibín on the career of James Baldwin
Daniel Soar: The Big Issue
Elizabeth Lowry
- Island: Collected Stories by Alistair MacLeod
- No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
Thomas Nagel
- The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour by Barry Stroud
Julian Bell on Walter Sickert
- The Complete Writings on Art by Walter Sickert, edited by Anna Gruetzner Robins
Peter Campbell takes the lie of the land
Tom Shippey
- Viking Age Iceland by Jesse Byock
Jonathan Lamb
- Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture by Nick Groom
E.S. Turner
- Diary of an African Journey (1914) by H. Rider Haggard
August Kleinzahler: wiseguys
Contributors
Julian Bell is the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which came out last month.
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.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Alison Jolly is a biologist at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Lucy’s Legacy and Lords and Lemurs.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Jonathan Lamb teaches English at Princeton. Preserving the Self in the South Seas was published in 2001.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, will be published by Quercus in July.
Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays is his most recent book.
Tim Radford is science editor at the Guardian.
Tom Shippey’s most recent book is a collection of his papers on Tolkien, Roots and Branches; an anthology, The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous, has just won the Mythopoeic Society’s Scholarship Award for 2008.
Henry Shukman’s novella Sandstorm recently won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
