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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 12 · 10 June 1999
Jay Griffiths on the streets
- The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Protest edited by Brian MacArthur
- DIY Culture: Party and Protest in Nineties Britain edited by George McKay
Nicholas Jose on Chinese art
- Inside Out: New Chinese Art edited by Gao Minglu
- Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the 20th Century by Wu Hung
- A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of 20th-Century China by Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen
W.G. Runciman: The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
- The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
K. Sinclair-Loutit, Nikhil Pal Singh, Alys Eve Weinbaum, David Kazanjian, Brent Edwards, Josefina Saldana, George Hornby, J.P. Roos, Amanda Hopkinson, Andrew Horn, Stephen Howe, Gerald Moore, David Freedberg, Alexander Hutchison, Valentin Lyubarsky, Malcolm Hurwitt, Peter Wright
John Sutherland visits the Isherwood archive and considers where best to store the family silver
John Bayley
- Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School by Jeffrey Cox
Lorraine Daston
- Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences by Philip Fisher
Jonathan Rée
- The Cambridge History of 17th-Century Philosophy edited by Daniel Garber and Michael Ayres
Robert Irwin
- The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism 1798-1836 by Todd Porterfield
Simon Walker
- England’s Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422 by Paul Strohm
Paul Smith
- Acton and History by Owen Chadwick
E.S. Turner
- The London Rich: The Creation of a Great City from 1666 to the Present by Peter Thorold
- The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture by Mordaunt Crook
Geoffrey Best
- Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart by Alex Danchev
- Studies in British Military Thought: Debates with Fuller and Liddell Hart by Brian Holden Reid
David Craig
- Nature: Western Attitudes since Ancient Times by Peter Coates
Christopher Tayler
- Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell
Tony Wood
- The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
- The Clay Machine-Gun by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
- A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield
Contributors
John Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford from 1974 to 1992.
Geoffrey Best’s Churchill and War was published in 2005. He taught history at Sussex for many years.
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
Allen Curnow, a poet often published and much admired by the LRB, died in September 2001. Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems, 1941-97 is available from Carcanet. The Bells of Saint Babel’s has just been published in paperback.
Lorraine Daston, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has written on the history of probability, wonders and scientific objectivity.
James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Anne Enright won the Booker Prize in 2007.
Jay Griffiths is the author of Pip Pip.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
Nicholas Jose lives in Sydney. His novels include The Rose Crossing and The Custodians.
Jonathan Rée recently presented a series about William Hazlitt on Radio 3.
W.G. Runciman is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a former president of the General Council of British Shipping.
Paul Smith’s edition of Bagehot’s English Constitution came out this year.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Christopher Tayler is the Guardian’s chief fiction reviewer and lives in London.
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.
Simon Walker taught history at the University of Sheffield. He died in 2004.
Michael Wood’s books include America in the Movies, The Magician’s Doubts, The Road to Delphi and, most recently, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. He teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton.
Tony Wood works at NLR, and is the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence.
