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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 10 · 20 May 2004
David Simpson on war and showing pictures of the dead
Nicholas Blanton, Peter Dailey, Phil Edwards, W.G. Runciman, Wilfred Beckerman, Gerald Field
David Runciman: Blair’s Gambles
Ferdinand Mount on the benefits of the Crimean War
- The Crimean War: The Truth behind the Myth by Clive Ponting
James Wood on a literary dragnet
- The Oxford English Literary History, Vol. XII: 1960-2000: The Last of England? by Randall Stevenson
Richard Wollheim in Adolescence
Mark Ford: The Madness of Marinetti
- Selected Poems and Related Prose by F.T. Marinetti, translated by Elizabeth Napier and Barbara Studholme
Thomas Jones on aristocrats
Neal Ascherson: Putin’s strategy
- Inside Putin's Russia by Andrew Jack
- Putin's Progress by Peter Truscott
- Putin, Russia's Choice by Richard Sakwa
Paul Myerscough on Cy Twombly
John Bossy on Jesuits
- The Jesuits: Missions, Myths and Histories by Jonathan Wright
Dinah Birch on the lives of the Rossettis
- The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Formative Years 1835-62: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk. Volume One edited by William Fredeman
- The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Formative Years 1835-62: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk. Volume Two edited by William Fredeman
- William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis by Angela Thirlwell
James Francken reads Ian Sansom
Fiona Pitt-Kethley recalls the murder of a neighbour
Tobias Jones on fiction and reality in Italian noir
- The Colombian Mule by Massimo Carlotto, translated by Christopher Woodall
- The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
- The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
- Almost Blue by Carlo Lucarelli, translated by Oonagh Stransky
- The Advocate: A Sardinian Mystery by Marcello Fois, translated by Patrick Creagh
Tariq Ali probes the real story of Daniel Pearl
- A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Daniel Pearl by Mariane Pearl
- Who Killed Daniel Pearl? by Bernard-Henri Lévy
Patrick Cockburn on the uprisings in Iraq
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s new book, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, will be published by Simon and Schuster in September.
Neal Ascherson is the author of Black Sea, among other books. He reported on Georgia in the LRB of 4 March 2004.
Dinah Birch is the author of Our Victorian Education. She teaches at Liverpool University and is the general editor of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.
Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent on the Independent and has been visiting Iraq since 1977. Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq was published in April.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He is a professor of English at University College London.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
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.
Ferdinand Mount’s Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes is out soon.
Paul Myerscough is an editor at the London Review.
Fiona Pitt-Kethley edited The Literary Companion to Sex and The Literary Companion to Low Life, and is the author of several books of poetry, among them Double Act and Private Parts.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Political Hypocrisy and co-author of Representation, published by Polity Press.
Charles Simic’s latest book of poems is That Little Something.
David Simpson teaches English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern will come out from Cambridge next year.
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).
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.
