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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 17 · 3 September 1998
Michael Gilsenan on Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples by V. S. Naipaul
- Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples by V. S. Naipaul
Robert Irwin on Khalil Gibran
- Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins
- Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran by Robin Waterfield
Ross McKibbin: Amnesia at the Top
Herman Reichenbach, Andrew Hillier, Eleanor Fishman, Thomas Laqueur, Michael Ward
Ben Pimlott
- Crosland’s Future: Opportunity and Outcome by David Reisman
Susan Eilenberg
- Wordsworth and the Victorians by Stephen Gill
- The Five-Book Prelude by William Wordsworth, edited by Duncan Wu
Linda Colley
- The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Victorian England by Amanda Vickery
Ian Gilmour
- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
- Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain by K.D. Reynolds
- Lady Byron and Earl Shilton by David Herbert
Lorna Sage
- All around Atlantis by Deborah Eisenberg
Michael Wood
- Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard
- Havana Dreams by Wendy Gimbel
Edmund White
- Pleasured by Philip Hensher
Nuruddin Farah writes about the travails of Mogadishu
Richard Jenkyns
- Lucretius: ‘On the Nature of the Universe’ translated by Ronald Melville
Simon Goldhill
- Magic in the Ancient World by Fritz Graf
Andy Beckett
- Scepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler
Peter Lipton
- How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organised Criticality by Per Bak
Contributors
Andy Beckett’s Pinochet in Piccadilly is out in paperback. He is writing a book about Britain in the 1970s.
Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her latest book is The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.
Susan Eilenberg teaches in the English department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Nuruddin Farah’s novels include the trilogy Sweet & Sour Milk, Sardines and Close Sesame
Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died on 21 September 2007.
Michael Gilsenan is professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. His books include Lords of the Lebanese Marches.
Simon Goldhill, the author of Foucault’s Virginity, is a reader in Greek literature and culture at Cambridge, and a fellow of King’s College.
Gerald Hammond’s books include The Making of the English Bible and Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems 1616-60. He is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
Richard Jenkyns, Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford, is the author of The Victorians and Ancient Greece, and, most recently, of Virgil’s Experience.
John Kinsella’s most recent book of poems is The New Arcadia.
Peter Lipton teaches the history and philosophy of science at Cambridge, and is a fellow of King’s College.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.
Ben Pimlott was from 1998 the Warden of Goldsmiths College, London. His books include Labour and the Left in the 1930s (1977), and biographies of Hugh Dalton (1985) and Harold Wilson (1992). He died on 10 April 2004.
Lorna Sage died in January 2001. Part of her autobiography, Bad Blood, for which she won the Whitbread Biography Prize, was first published in the LRB in 1993.
Edmund White is a novelist and the author of a biography of Proust.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
