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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 19 · 1 October 1998
Richard Fortey: The Burgess Shale
- The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway Morris
John Sutherland reports on the Drudge Report
Michael Wood
- Primo Levi: The Tragedy of an Optimist by Myriam Anissimov, translated by Steve Cox
Bruce Bucknell, Christopher Price, Don Miller, James Wood, H.V.F. Winstone, Rosemary Seton, Graham Mitchell
Marina Warner
- Bodies of Law by Alan Hyde
Geoffrey Hawthorn
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes
- The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
Dinah Birch
- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Rebel by Pam Hirsch
Ian Hamilton
- Osbert Sitwell by Philip Ziegler
James Wood
- Damascus Gate by Robert Stone
Contributors
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Dinah Birch’s new book, Our Victorian Education, will be published later this year.
Richard Fortey is a research scientist at the Natural History Museum and visiting professor of palaeobiology at Oxford. The Earth: An Intimate History was shortlisted for the Aventis science writing prize 2005.
Michael Gilsenan is professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. His books include Lords of the Lebanese Marches.
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.
Geoffrey Hawthorn has just retired as a professor of politics at Cambridge.
Edward Luttwak is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. His books include The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire and, more recently, Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace.
Andrew Motion’s memoir In the Blood is out from Faber.
John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
John Tranter’s collections of poems include Late Night Radio (1998). He co-edited the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry and edits the Internet magazine, Jacket
Marina Warner’s books include From the Beast to the Blonde, Indigo and most recently, Phantasmagoria. She teaches at the University of Essex.
Nigel Wheale’s selection of poems, Phrasing the Light, is published by the Many Press.
A.N. Wilson is the author of many works of fiction and non-fiction.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
