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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 2 · 22 January 1998
Jerry Fodor on Pinker and Plotkin
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- Evolution in Mind by Henry Plotkin
Tom Paulin on Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Gilbert Adair, Aidan Foster-Carter, Patrick Nairne, Ian Buruma, Norman Cantor, Eric Foner, Terence Hawkes, Peter Lamarque, Christopher Small, Leo Baxendale, Alison Walker, Richard Davies
Frank Kermode
- Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics and the Translation of Empire by Heather James
R.W. Johnson
- The British General Election of 1997 by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh
- Labour's Landslide by Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge
- Britain Votes 1997 edited by Pippa Norris and Neil Gavin
- Collapse of Stout Party: The Decline and Fall of the Tories by Julian Crtitchley and Morrison Halcrow
- Les Election Legislatives, 25 Mai-1er Juin 1997: Le president desavoue
Ian Hamilton
- Assassination of a Princess by Ahmad Ata
- Diana: A Princess Killed by Love by Ilham Sharshar
- Who Killed Diana? by Muhammad Ragab
- Harrods: A Place in Knightsbridge by Tim Dale
Margaret Anne Doody
- Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington edited by A.C. Elias
Derek Parfit: Why there is a universe
Audrey Gillan on the drubbing of Mohammad Sarwar
E.S. Turner
- Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras by Terence Grocott
Contributors
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
Margaret Anne Doody is John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She is the author of The True Story of the Novel
Jerry Fodor is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
Audrey Gillan is a reporter on the Guardian.
Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels - and on football - to the LRB. He died on 27 December 2001.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Derek Parfit, a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, is the author of Reasons and Persons.
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.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
