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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 7 · 31 March 2005
John Lanchester: Five More Years of This?
Valerie Yule, Clive James, Jeremy Bernstein, Subho Basu, Gerard McBurney, Myron Kaplan, Matt Cavanagh, J.R. Pole
Jenny Diski sees off Piers Morgan
- The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan Buy this book
Rory Stewart: Does anyone know how to govern Iraq?
John Bossy: Etruscan haruspicy
- The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery by Ingrid Rowland Buy this book
Jeremy Harding searches for his parents
Thomas Jones: Michael Jackson’s frailties
Theo Tait: Holmes and the Holocaust
Peter Campbell: Caravaggio’s final years
Thomas Karshan on John Updike
Michael Friedman: The embarrassing cousin
- The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity by Raymond Knapp Buy this book
Gillian Darley: Betjeman’s bêtes noires
Andrew Saint charts the course of British urbanism
Susan Pedersen: Down and Out in Victorian London
- Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London by Seth Koven Buy this book
Tom Vanderbilt: The View from Above
Contributors
John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.
T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on a book about Picasso between the wars.
Gillian Darley’s Villages of Vision is published in a revised edition this month.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Michael Friedman is a composer and lyricist who lives in New York.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Thomas Karshan is writing a PhD thesis on Nabokov at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
John Lanchester has been given this year’s E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Family Romance, is out in paperback.
Susan Pedersen teaches British and European history and political thought at Columbia University.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London.
Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between describes his walk across Afghanistan in 2001. He has worked for the British government in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, and is now a fellow of the Carr Centre at Harvard.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Tom Vanderbilt is the author of Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America. He lives in Brooklyn.
