Articles marked 
are available to registered subscribers to the print edition of the London Review of Books. For information about subscribing to the LRB, click here. If you are already a subscriber and you wish to register for online access, click here. Articles marked 
are not currently available in the LRB online archive.
Contents
Vol. 20 No. 20 · 15 October 1998
Richard Lloyd Parry on Alex Garland
- The Beach by Alex Garland
- The Tesseract by Alex Garland
Jonathan Rée on Richard Rorty
- Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in 20th-Century America by Richard Rorty
- Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Vol. III by Richard Rorty
Andrew O’Hagan meets E.S. Turner
Constance Blackwell, Howard Davies, John Sturrock, Thomas Jones, Stephen Mulhall, Ben Pimlott, Sarah Rigby, Misha Simic, Dick Sargent, Kenneth Collier
James Buchan: An Iranian Revolutionary
- An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati by Ali Rahnema
Frank Kermode: Bad Father, Good Son
- The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton and Blake by A.D. Nuttall
Alexander Murray
- The Conversion of Europe: From Paganism to Christianity, 371-1386 AD by Richard Fletcher
Helen Cooper
- The Beggar and the Professor: A 16th-Century Family Saga by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Christopher Haigh
- Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy
Rogers Brubaker
- Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Thomas Ertman
Nicholas Penny: One Tate or Two
Philip Kitcher
- Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behaviour by Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson
John Bayley
- I am well, who are you? by David Piper, edited by Anne Piper
David Blackbourn
- Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-49 edited by Hans Wysling, translated by Don Reneau
Hari Kunzru
- The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Proud Highway: The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. I by Hunter S. Thompson, edited by Douglas Brinkley
Wendy Doniger
- Field of 13 by Dick Francis
Richard Popkin: Spinoza v. the Synagogue
- The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study by Richard Mason
- Spinoza, Liberalism and the Question of Jewish Identity by Steven Smith
Contributors
John Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford from 1974 to 1992.
David Blackbourn, whose Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany was reviewed in the LRB by Neal Ascherson, teaches history at Harvard.
Rogers Brubaker’s books include Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany and Nationalism Revisited. He teaches at UCLA.
James Buchan’s books include Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money, Crowded with Genius and, most recently, Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty.
Helen Cooper is a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge and the author of The English Romance in Time.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of, among other books, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India and The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.
Peter Ghosh is a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford.
Christopher Haigh is the author of English Reformations.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Philip Kitcher, a professor of philosophy at Columbia, is the author of Science, Truth and Democracy, among other books.
Hari Kunzru writes fiction, essays and journalism.
Richard Lloyd Parry is the Asia editor of the Times, based in Tokyo. His book about Indonesia and East Timor, In the Time of Madness, is out in paperback.
Alexander Murray is Praelector of University College, Oxford.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Richard Popkin’s revised and expanded History of Scepticism from Savonarola to Pierre Bayle is due from Oxford this year. His piece was written with the assistance of Stephanie Chasin.
Jonathan Rée is a member of the philosopher’s group of the British Humanist Association. He co-edited The Kierkegaard Reader.
