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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 16 · 20 August 1998
Jenny Diski: Jewish Seafarers
- The Children of Noah: Jewish Seafaring in Ancient Times by Raphael Patai
Jacqueline Rose on the cult of celebrity
James Davidson
- The Greeks and Greek Civilisation by Jacob Burckhardt, edited by Oswyn Murray, translated by Sheila Stern
David Craig, Joseph Nuttgens, Tim Sharp, Peter Platt, Lesley Chamberlain, John Kay, Terence Hawkes, Richard L. Spear, Alfred Webb, Arthur Marwick, Patrick McGuinness, D.P. Morgan, Catherine Wilson, Charles Swann, Very Rev. Alfred Jowett
Michael Rogin
- Celebrity Caricature in America by Wendy Wick Reaves
John Sturrock pads up with W.G. Grace
- W.G. Grace: A Life by Simon Rae
- W.G.'s Birthday Party by David Kynaston
Boyd Hilton
- Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 by Anthony Howe
- The Origins of War Prevention: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1730-1854 by Martin Ceadel
Dan Jacobson
- King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes by Neil Parsons
John Lloyd
- Bitter Waters: Life and Work in Stalin’s Russia by Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov, translated by Ann Healy
Perry Anderson: My Father’s Last Years in China
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
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.
Boyd Hilton teaches modern British history at Cambridge and is a fellow of Trinity College. He is the author of Corn, Cash and Commerce: The Economic Policies of the Tory Government 1815-30 and of The Age of Atonement.
Mark Hudson’s Our Grandmothers’ Drums won the Somerset Maugham Award and Coming Back Brockens won the NCR award.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
John Lloyd is a former labour editor of the Financial Times and the author of An Anatomy of Russia and Loss without Limit, about the miners’ strike of 1984-85.
Michael Ondaatje’s books include Anil’s Ghost and The English Patient.
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.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Michael Rogin died in November 2001. Stephen Greenblatt wrote about him in the LRB of 3 January 2002.
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.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
