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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 8 · 15 April 2004
Richard Wollheim remembers his childhood
Michael Dibdin, Martyn Wade, Jerome McGann, Tom Staley, John Sutherland, Aidan Harrison, Salah el Serafy, Edward Luttwak, Fay Robertson, Gareth Smith, Gerald Lang
Christopher Tayler: The Wryness of Julian Barnes
Kitty Hauser on style in Japan
- Fruits by Shoichi Aoki
- The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan by Donald Richie
Steven Shapin: Mr Loomis’s Obsession
- Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War Two by Jennet Conant
J.L. Nelson: Charlemagne’s Superstate
- Charlemagne by Matthias Becher, translated by David Bachrach
David Wootton on 17th-century bodies
- Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in 17th-Century England by Laura Gowing
Paul Farmer: The US in Haiti
Peter Campbell on being photographed
Philip Davis: Thomas Arnold’s Apostasies
- A Victorian Wanderer: The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger by Bernard Bergonzi
Joanna Kavenna: Von Trier’s Provocations
- Trier on von Trier edited by Stig Björkman, translated by Neil Smith
- Dogville directed by Lars von Trier (2003)
Jonathan Lethem: Growing up with the Fantastic Four
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Philip Davis’s The Victorians, a volume in the new Oxford English Literary History series, came out in 2002. He teaches at the University of Liverpool.
Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist, is Maud and Lillian Presley Professor at Harvard Medical School and author of The Uses of Haiti and Pathologies of Power.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He is a professor of English at University College London.
Kitty Hauser is writing a book for Granta about the landscape archaeologist O.G.S. Crawford, to be called Bloody Old Britain. She is currently Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
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.
Jonathan Lethem’s novels include Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude.
J.L. Nelson teaches medieval history at King’s College London. She is writing a book about Charlemagne.
Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. His new book, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation, was published in October.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Hugo Williams’s latest collection is Dear Room.
Richard Wollheim, who died on 4 November 2003, was Grote Professor in the University of London, before moving to the States, where he taught at Columbia and at Berkeley. His last book was On the Emotions (1999).
David Wootton’s Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates will be published by Oxford in June. He teaches early modern history at the University of York, where he is an Anniversary Professor.
