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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 1 · 7 January 1999
Ian Hamilton on Poets Laureate
John Sutherland on intellectual property in the digital age
Ludovic Kennedy, David Selbourne, Melanie Phillips, Jeremy Harte, A.N. Wilson, Keith Hughes, Bill Gilmour, Peter Ghosh, Duncan Bush, Peter Briggs, Matthew Price, Keith Flett
Stephen Greenblatt: Disenchantment
- Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park
Perry Anderson: Goodbye to Bonn
Gabriele Annan: The Lovely Langhornes
- The Langhorne Sisters by James Fox
Penelope Fitzgerald: Poor John Lehmann
- John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure by Adrian Wright
Michael Mason
- What is Love? Richard Carlile’s Philosophy of Sex edited by M.L. Bush
Michael Dobson
- Shakespeare: A Life by Park Honan
- Shakespeare: The ‘Lost Years’ by E.A.J. Honigmann
Colin Burrow
- Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660 edited by Peter Davidson
E.S. Turner
- Gout: The Patrician Malady by Roy Porter and G.S. Rousseau
Christopher Hitchens: The Wrong Stuff
- A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
Thomas Jones
- Deadmeat by Q.
- King Rat by China Miéville
Paul Foot: Highway Robbery
- Stagecoach: A Classic Rags-to-Riches Tale from the Frontiers of Capitalism by Christian Wolmar
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.
Colin Burrow, a senior research fellow at All Souls, Oxford, edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare and introduced Troilus and Cressida for Penguin.
Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.
Penelope Fitzgerald, a frequent and much-missed contributor to the London Review, died in 2000. She wrote three biographies and ten works of fiction, all in print.
Paul Foot died in July 2004. He wrote 60 pieces for the LRB – on subjects including Leon Britain, the Birmingham Six, MI5, Tiny Rowland, Neil Hamilton, Gordon Brown and (often) Shelley.
Stephen Greenblatt’s most recent book is Hamlet in Purgatory. He is working on a biographical study of Shakespeare.
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.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Michael Mason is the author of The Making of Victorian Sexuality.
Aidan Mathews’s books include According to the Small Hours.
Aleksandar Ristovic (1933-94) was the author of more than twenty books of poetry as well as a book of criticism. He lived in Belgrade, where he received several major prizes for his work.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
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.
