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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 11 · 4 June 1998
Thomas Laqueur: the troublesome marriage of Poles and Jews
- Heshel's Kingdom by Dan Jacobson
- Shtetl: The History of a Small Town and an Extinguished World by Eva Hoffman
Richard Poirier on Walt Whitman
- With Walt Whitman in Camden: Vol. VIII: 11 February 1891-30 September 1891 by Horace Traubel, edited by Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac
- With Walt Whitman in Camden: Vol. IX: 11 February 1891-30 September 1891 by Horace Traubel, edited by Jeanne Chapman and Robert MacIsaac
Jeremy Bernstein, Maud Sulter, Trevor Fawcett, James Wood, Harvey Plant, David Andrew, David Tully
David Runciman: Money and the Arts
- Artist Unknown: An Alternative History of the Arts Council by Richard Witts
- In Praise of Commercial Culture by Tyler Cowen
Conor Gearty
- This Time: Our Constitutional Revolution by Anthony Barnett
- The Voice of the People: A Constitution for Tomorrow by Robert Alexander
- The Making and Remaking of the British Constitution by Lord Nolan and Stephen Sedley
Christopher Hitchens: Memoirs of a Revolutionary
- 1968: Marching in the Streets by Tariq Ali and Susan Watkins
- The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968 by Angelo Quattrocchi and Tom Nairn
- The Love Germ by Jill Neville
Zachary Leader: Files on the Fifties
- Previous Convictions: A Journey Through the Fifties by Nora Sayre
Betsy Blair: Files on the Fifties
John Bayley
- The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First Battalion by Rudyard Kipling
- The Irish Guards in the Great War: The Second Battalion by Rudyard Kipling
Sarah Rigby
- Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
Alex Ivanovitch
- Armadillo by William Boyd
- Nat Tate: American Artist, 1928-60 by William Boyd Buy this book
Tom Shippey
- The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, Vol. I, 660-1649 by N.A.M. Rodger
- Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe by Bert Hall
E.S. Turner
- British Spas from 1815 to the Present Day: A Social History by Phyllis Hembry and Leonard Cowie
Contributors
John Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford from 1974 to 1992.
Betsy Blair is writing a Hollywood memoir.
Denis Donoghue teaches English, Irish and American literature at New York University. His recent books include Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot (2000) and The American Classics (2005).
Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at the LSE, has written a number of books on terrorism and human rights.
David Harsent’s Selected Poems have been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. The Minotaur, his opera with Harrison Birtwistle, has just opened at the Royal Opera House.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
Alex Ivanovitch writes reviews and lives in London.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Zachary Leader has edited The Letters of Kingsley Amis, and plays tennis with Martin.
Richard Poirier, founding editor of Raritan, is chairman of the board of the Library of America.
Sarah Rigby edited Patricia Beer’s As I Was Saying Yesterday: Selected Essays and Reviews, published by Carcanet. Some years ago she worked for this paper: now she lives in New York City.
David Runciman’s new book is Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
W.G. Runciman is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a former president of the General Council of British Shipping.
Tom Shippey’s latest book is the edited collection The Shadow-walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous; he is also the editor of Studies in Medievalism.
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.
