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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 5 · 4 March 1999
Peter Campbell: Ingres-flesh
- Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch edited by Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee
- Velázquez: The Technique of Genius by Jonathan Brown and Carmen Garrido
Jenny Diski on A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook
- A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook
David Edgar: The Brecht Centenary
- War Primer by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett
- Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches by John Willett
- Brecht and Method by Fredric Jameson
Christopher Hitchens, Adam Thorpe, Deborah McVea, Jeremy Treglown, Conrad Dehn, Sheldon Watts, Stuart Silverman
Nick Cohen: Get Mandy
- Mandy: The Authorised Biography of Peter Mandelson by Paul Routledge
Olivier Todd: Bad Duras
- Marguerite Duras by Laure Adler
- No More by Marguerite Duras
Alexander Nehamas: Iris Murdoch
Ian Sansom: The Unhappy Laureate
- Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis by Albert Gelpi
Ian Hamilton: Schmidt’s List
- Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt
- A Critical Difference: T.S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919-28 by David Goldie
Denis Donoghue: Jon Stallworthy
- Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems by Jon Stallworthy
Steven Shapin: Fraud in the Lab
- The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character by Daniel Kevles
John Ray: Whose Troy?
- Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik by Susan Heuck Allen
Simon Goldhill: Greek Gynaecology
- Hippocrates’ Women: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece by Helen King
R.W. Johnson: Goodbye Zimbabwe
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Nick Cohen’s Cruel Britannia is published by Verso.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
Denis Donoghue teaches English, Irish and American literature at New York University. His recent books include Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot (2000) and The American Classics (2005).
David Edgar is currently adapting Julian Barnes’s Arthur and George for the stage and writing a new play for Out of Joint.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He teaches at University College London.
Simon Goldhill, the author of Foucault’s Virginity, is a reader in Greek literature and culture at Cambridge, and a fellow of King’s College.
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.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Alexander Nehamas chairs the programme in Hellenic Studies at Princeton. His books include The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault.
John Ray is Herbert Thompson Reader in Egyptology at Cambridge.
Mark Rudman’s last collection was Sundays on the Phone; he is working on a new one, to be called On the Firing Line.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Olivier Todd is the author of Albert Camus: A Life.
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.