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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 13 · 2 July 1998
Charles Nicholl on the story of Beatrice Cenci
Michael Wood: Film theory
- The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium by Gilberto Perez
- On the History of Film Style by David Bordwell
- Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine by D.N. Rodowick
- The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema by Jean Mitry, translated by Christopher King
- Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen
Alexander Stille: D’Annunzio and the Pursuit of Glory
- Gabriele D’Annunzio: Defiant Archangel by John Woodhouse
Charles Simic, Adrian Mitchell, Peter Gillman, William Logan, Anthony Barnett, John Bayley, David Hooper, Eric Thompson, David Rose
Nick Cohen: Treachery at the FO
- First Annual Report on Human Rights Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- The Great Deception by Mark Curtis
John Bossy: Abelard’s Final Fling
- Abelard: A Medieval Life by M.T. Clanchy
Michael Rogin: David Mamet in a Cul de Sac
- The Old Religion by David Mamet
Steven Shapin: Edmund Halley
- Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas by Alan Cook
Nicholas Penny: Correggio
- Correggio by David Ekserdjian
- The 'Divine' Guido by Richard Spear
Richard Horton: Notes on the NHS
- The National Health Service: A Political History by Charles Webster
Christopher Hitchens slums it with the Almanach de Gotha
Contributors
John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.
Nick Cohen’s Cruel Britannia is published by Verso.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
Richard Horton edits the Lancet and is the author of Preventing Coronary Artery Disease.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Charles Nicholl’s most recent book is The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Michael Rogin died in November 2001. Stephen Greenblatt wrote about him in the LRB of 3 January 2002.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Alexander Stille’s Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism and Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic are both published by Vintage.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
