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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 23 · 26 November 1998
Eric Korn on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin, edited by Paul Ekman
James Wood on Knut Hamsun
- Knut Hamsun: Selected Letters, Vol. II 1898-1952 edited by Harald Næss and James McFarlane
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun, translated by Sverre Lyngstad
Christopher Hitchens on Isaiah Berlin
- Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff
- The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin by György Dalos
William Millinship, Graham Robb, John Coleby, Richard Evans, Stuart Semmel, Oleg Gordievsky, Ian Angus, Beverley Strauss, John Sutherland
Hugo Young
- The Curse of My Life: My Autobiography by Edward Heath
Michael Wood: on the Comic-Strip Proust
- A la recherche du temps perdu: Combray by Marcel Proust, edited by Stéphane Heuet
- Proust among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie
Paul Driver
- Sibelius. Vol. III: 1914-57 by Erik Tawaststjerna, edited by Robert Layton
Richard Jenkyns
- Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Trelawny by David Crane
Michael Gorra
- A Long Finish by Michael Dibdin
Theo Tait
- The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Paul Seabright
- Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia by John Lloyd
- Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia by David Remnick
Robin Briggs
- Saint-Simon, ou le système de la cour by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Jean-François Fitou
David Coward
- The Figaro Plays by Pierre de Beaumarchais, translated by John Wells
Contributors
Robin Briggs is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and author of Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. A second edition of Early Modern France 1560-1715 was published in 1998.
David Coward is emeritus professor of French at the University of Leeds. His translation of Hedi Kaddour’s Waltenberg will be published next spring.
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
Paul Driver writes about music for the Sunday Times.
Michael Gorra teaches English at Smith College in Massachusetts. He is the author of After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie.
David Harsent’s Selected Poems have been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. The Minotaur, his opera with Harrison Birtwistle, has just opened at the Royal Opera House.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
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.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Eric Korn, an antiquarian bookseller, was recently invited to restock Darwin’s bookshelves with inexpensive volumes of appropriate appearance, for a newly refurbished Down House.
Paul Seabright is a professor of economics at the University of Toulouse-1.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
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.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Hugo Young was a political columnist on the Guardian. His books include One of Us, a biography of Margaret Thatcher, and This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair. He died in September 2003.
