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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 4 · 19 February 2004
Conor Gearty: Why didn’t Campbell sue?
- Report of the Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr David Kelly CMG by Lord Hutton
Robert Brain, Jonathan Clark, Jane Binyon, Colin Armstrong, Michael Edwards, Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham, Fred Starr, Terry Castle
Alan Bennett on the tap-dancing Lord Hutton
Jon Lawrence: Both ‘on message’ and off
- The Point of Departure by Robin Cook
Elizabeth Spelman on Mary Wollstonecraft
Jeremy Harding: Marianne gets rid of the veil
Rosemary Hill on the ‘shocking’ life of Schiap
- Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli by Dilys Blum
Tom Paulin on Clare’s anti-pastoral
- John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate
- ‘I Am’: The Selected Poetry of John Clare edited by Jonathan Bate
- John Clare, Politics and Poetry by Alan Vardy
- John Clare Vol. V: Poems of the Middle Period 1822-37 edited by Eric Robinson, David Powell and P.M.S. Dawson
Norman Dombey: False Intelligence
Joanna Kavenna: Joyce Carol Oates
David Runciman hits a home run
- Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball by Stephen Jay Gould
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
Colin Burrow on cultivation and desire in Renaissance gardens
- Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens by Rebecca Bushnell
Peter Campbell on Vuillard
Peter Mandler on Samuel Smiles
- Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles, edited by Peter Sinnema
Martin Daunton on the pension crisis
- Banking on Death or, Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions by Robin Blackburn
Robin Blackburn replies to Martin Daunton
M.F. Burnyeat on the Siberian concept of theft
Contributors
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.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Robin Blackburn teaches sociology at the University of Essex and history at the New School in New York.
M.F. Burnyeat has returned to Robinson College, Cambridge after ten years as senior research fellow in philosophy at All Souls. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato, among other books.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Martin Daunton is professor of economic history at Cambridge. The author of Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain 1914-79, he is completing Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1851-1951.
Norman Dombey is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at the LSE, has written a number of books on terrorism and human rights.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule is published by Viking. She currently holds a writing fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge.
Jon Lawrence teaches history at the University of Liverpool.
Michael Longley’s Snow Water is out from Cape.
Peter Mandler, who teaches at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, is writing a history of the idea of the English national character.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Political Hypocrisy and co-author of Representation, published by Polity Press.
Elizabeth Spelman teaches philosophy at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is working on a slim book exploring the nature of abundance.
