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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 18 · 22 September 2005
David Runciman: Beyond the Ashes
A.W.B. Simpson, Rob Stradling, Eric Griffiths, Alistair Dixon, Michael Debbané, A.J. Nicholson, Richard Davenport-Hines, Simon Barley
T.J. Clark: A Savonarolan Bonfire
Frank Kermode: Lowell’s Letters
- The Letters of Robert Lowell edited by Saskia Hamilton Buy this book
Stephen Mulhall asks how we can ground our values
- Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics and Law by Gianni Vattimo, translated by William McCuaig Buy this book
Daniel S. Greenberg: Bush’s Scientists
Jenny Diski: Bush’s women
- Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species by Laura Flanders Buy this book
Thomas Jones questions John Humphrys
Ferdinand Mount: Little Rosebery
Colin Burrow investigates murder mysteries
- A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels and Systems of Thought by Stephen Kern Buy this book
Jacqueline Rose: ‘Specimen Days’
- Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
Christopher Tayler on Rachel Cusk
J.L. Heilbron on a Copernican monomaniac
- The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich Buy this book
James Davidson visits Persia’s ‘Forgotten Empire’
John Jones on Leigh Hunt’s sense of woe
- Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt by Nicholas Roe Buy this book
- The Wit in the Dungeon: A Life of Leigh Hunt by Anthony Holden Buy this book
Eliot Weinberger at a poetry festival in Chengdu
Contributors
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
T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on a book about Picasso between the wars.
James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Mark Doty is the author of Firebird, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Source.
Daniel S. Greenberg is a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington. He is the author of Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion.
J.L. Heilbron is a professor of history and the vice chancellor, emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley; he is also a research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford.
Clive James is working on the fourth volume of his unreliable memoirs.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Jones reported football for the Observer and was later Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Ferdinand Mount’s Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes is out soon.
Stephen Mulhall is a fellow of New College, Oxford. His books include Philosophical Myths of the Fall and Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard.
Jacqueline Rose teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity, edited with Anne Karpf, Brian Klug and Barbara Rosenbaum, will be published by Verso.
David Runciman’s new book is Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Eliot Weinberger’s recent books include What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, An Elemental Thing and The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry.
John Hartley Williams’s most recent collection is The Ship. A new volume of poems will appear in the spring.
