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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 8 · 17 April 2003
Nicholas Penny: The Apotheosis of Piero
- Piero della Francesca by Roberto Longhi, translated by David Tabbat
Barbara Low, Ken Coates, Hal Foster, Christian McEwen, J. Elfenbein, Phil Poole, Keith Flett
Michael Wood on Italo Calvino
- Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino Buy this book
Charles Glass reports from Lake Dokan
Hugh Miles: Look both ways
Hilary Mantel: Children of the Revolution
- The Lost King of France by Deborah Cadbury
David Coward on Alexandre Dumas
- Viva Garibaldi! Une Odyssée en 1860 by Alexandre Dumas
Jeremy Adler on Georg Trakl
- Poems and Prose by Georg Trakl, translated by Alexander Stillmark
John Sturrock on Bullshit
Barry Schwabsky: Who is Menzel?
- Menzel’s Realism: Art and Embodiment in 19th-Century Berlin by Michael Fried
Thomas Jones on Haruki Murakami
- After the Quake by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin
- Earthshaking Science: What We Know (and Don’t Know) about Earthquakes by Susan Elizabeth Hough
James Wood on Graham Swift
- The Light of Day by Graham Swift
Gillian Darley on Lutyens
- The Architect and His Wife: A Life of Edwin Lutyens by Jane Ridley
- Edwin Lutyens, Country Houses: From the Archives of ‘Country Life’ by Gavin Stamp
- Lutyens Abroad edited by Andrew Hopkins and Gavin Stamp
Anthony Pagden: Was there a Spanish Empire?
- Spain’s Road to Empire: The Making of a World 1492-1763 by Henry Kamen
Simon Schaffer on the Lunar Men
- The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future by Jenny Uglow
E.S. Turner: Kiss me, Eric
- Dean Farrar and ‘Eric’: A Study of ‘Eric, or Little by Little’, together with the Complete Text of the Book by Ian Anstruther
Peter Campbell on Art Deco
Edward Said: The US Administration’s misguided war
Contributors
Jeremy Adler is a senior research fellow at King’s College London. His edition of Elias Canetti’s Aufzeichnungen für Marie-Louise appeared in 2005.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
David Coward is emeritus professor of French at the University of Leeds. His translation of Hedi Kaddour’s Waltenberg will be published next spring.
Gillian Darley’s Villages of Vision is published in a revised edition this month.
Charles Glass has recently published two books on the Middle East, The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in France during the German occupation.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Hilary Mantel whose books include A Place of Greater Safety, Giving up the Ghost and Beyond Black, is working on a new novel called Wolf Hall.
Hugh Miles has lived in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. He works in London.
Anthony Pagden teaches at UCLA. His most recent books are La ilustración y sus enemigos and, as editor, The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union.
Don Paterson’s Orpheus, a version of Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus, will be published later this year. His previous collections include Landing Light, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Eyes and God’s Gift to Women.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Simon Schaffer teaches the history of science at Cambridge. His collection of essays on inquiry and invention from the Renaissance to early industrialisation, co-edited with Lissa Roberts and Peter Dear, is due next year.
Barry Schwabsky is the author of The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art.
Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, which ran in the LRB from March to September 2003, is out from Viking.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
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.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
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.
