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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 21 · 29 October 1998
Jerry Fodor on Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
John Upton in the Greenwich Magistrates Court
Neil Forster, William Lamont, Tom Lansburg, Adrian Dannatt, Alan Benfield, L.J. Olivier, Alison Macleod, V.G. Kiernan, George Schlesinger, Nick Bozanic, Chase Madar, Michael and Denise Hope, Ross Pratt, Ian Wylie, Keith Flett,
John Mullan: The Sad End of Swift
- Jonathan Swift by Victoria Glendinning
Stephen Holmes rereads ‘The Communist Manifesto’
- The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Michael Ignatieff: The Roosevelt Problem
- Liberalism and Its Discontents by Alan Brinkley
Ian Hamilton: The Utterly Complete Orwell
- The Complete Works of George Orwell edited by Peter Davidson
John Barrell
- Theatres of Memory, Vol. II. Island Stories: Unravelling Britain by Raphael Samuel, edited by Alison Light
Charles van Onselen writes about the desecration industry in South Africa
Christopher Prendergast
- An Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 by Franco Moretti
Peter Campbell
- Pieter De Hooch 1629-84 by Peter Sutton
- On Reflection by Jonathan Miller
E.S. Turner
- Sugar-Plums and Sherbet: A Prehistory of Sweets by Laura Mason
Tom Vanderbilt
- No Sweat edited by Andrew Ross
Contributors
John Barrell has coedited, with Jon Mee, an eight-volume edition of political trials of the 1790s for Pickering and Chatto. He teaches at the University of York.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jerry Fodor is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
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.
Stephen Holmes teaches at New York University School of Law. His most recent book is The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror.
Michael Ignatieff’s Isaiah Berlin: A Life is out from Chatto.
Justine Jordan works at the Guardian.
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.
Charles van Onselen is a historian based in Johannesburg. The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985 won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Price for Non-Fiction.
Christopher Prendergast is a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and was the general editor of the Penguin Proust.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.
Tom Vanderbilt is the author of Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America. He lives in Brooklyn.
