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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 7 · 1 April 1999
Thomas Nagel: natural selection
- Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
- The Pattern of Evolution by Niles Eldredge
David Sylvester views Jackson Pollock at the Tate
- Jackson Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel
- Interpreting Pollock by Jeremy Lewison
Verity Hawkes, Richard Beeston, John Sutherland, Deborah McVea, Jeremy Treglown, John Sturrock, H.T. Dixon, Malcolm Jack, Arlene Blade, Brendan Simms, John Willett, Abla Mouhawi, Marilyn Bowering, Harvey Roy Greenberg, Stuart Hood
Adewale Maja-Pearce watches Nigeria march away from democracy
Dan Jacobson
- King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Central Africa by Adam Hochschild
John Lewis Gaddis
- The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons by Jonathan Schell
Michael Rogin
- The American Century by Harold Evans
- The Time of Our Time by Norman Mailer
Lorna Scott Fox: Who was Calvert Casey?
- The Collected Stories by Calvert Casey
John Butt
- Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stainton
Patrick McGuinness
- The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 edited by Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford
- The Firebox: Poetry from Britain and Ireland after 1945 edited by Sean O’Brien
Joanna Kavenna
- The Radical Twenties: Aspects of Writing, Politics and Culture by John Lucas
Michael Mason
- Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
Contributors
Jeremy Bernstein is preparing a biography of Warren Hastings.
John Butt teaches in the Spanish Department at King’s College, London.
John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale. We Now Know: Rethinking the Cold War History came out in 1997.
Anthony Grafton’s many books include Joseph Scaliger and The Footnote. The latest is Leon Battista Alberti.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule is published by Viking. She currently holds a writing fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge.
Stephen Knight is the author of two collections of poems, Flowering Limbs and Dream City Cinema, and of Mr Schnitzel, a novel.
Frank Lentricchia teaches at Duke University in North Carolina.
Patrick McGuinness, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, is the author of Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.
Adewale Maja-Pearce is the author of In My Father’s Country and How Many Miles to Babylon? He lives in Lagos.
Michael Mason is the author of The Making of Victorian Sexuality.
Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays is his most recent book.
Michael Rogin died in November 2001. Stephen Greenblatt wrote about him in the LRB of 3 January 2002.
Lorna Scott Fox is an editor and translator who lives in London.
David Sylvester, who wrote many memorable pieces for this paper, died on 19 June 2001.
