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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 10 · 13 May 1999
Terry Eagleton on Gayatri Spivak
- A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Iain Sinclair tries to get to the Dome
Alex Callinicos, Amanda Sebestyen, Joseph Nuttgens, Paul Taylor, Daniel Waissbein, Moira Macdonald, Desia Kurtyanek, Jenny Hinton, Robert Ostermann, Leann Davis Alspaugh, Terry Castle
Landeg White
- Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes by Stephen Howe
A.N. Wilson
- Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship across Five Continents by Paul Theroux
Rosemary Hill: Having your grouse and eating it
- Girlitude: A Memoir of the Fifties and Sixties by Emma Tennant
David Trotter: Modernism plc
- Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture by Lawrence Rainey
- Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study by Tim Armstrong
- Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative by Harold Segel
- Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production by Douglas Mao
Susan Watkins
- Paul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882-1911 by Leslie Derfler
Dinah Birch
- The Journals of George Eliot edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston
- George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes
Jonathan Parry
- The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-86 by Theodore Hoppen
Patricia Beer
- Pushkin by Elizabeth Feinstein
Anatoly Naiman: Akhmatova, Brodsky and Me
Julian Evans
- Trois Chants Funébres pour le Kosovo by Ismail Kadare, translated by Jusuf Vrioni
Contributors
Patricia Beer’s Collected Poems is published by Carcanet. She died in 1999.
Dinah Birch is the author of Our Victorian Education. She teaches at Liverpool University and is the general editor of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Julian Evans is the author of Transit of Venus, a book of travels in the Pacific.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He is a professor of English at University College London.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Tobias Jones, a former editorial assistant at the LRB, is the author of the bestselling Dark Heart of Italy.
Anatoly Naiman had virtually no opportunity to publish his own work until the fall of the Soviet Union. In recent years, however, his poetry, prose and criticism have appeared in several Russian literary journals, and he has received awards from Novy Mir and October.
Jonathan Parry is the author of The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain. He is a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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.
Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances appeared last year. Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire, a documentary fiction, will come out in 2009.
David Trotter is a professor of English at Cambridge and the author of The English Novel in History, The Making of the Reader and, most recently, Cinema and Modernism.
Susan Watkins is the author of Feminism for Beginners and co-author of 1968: Marching in the Streets. She is the managing editor of New Left Review.
Landeg White’s verse translation of Luís Vaz de Camões’s The Lusiads appeared in 1997.
A.N. Wilson is the author of many works of fiction and non-fiction.
