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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 13 · 1 July 1999
Richard Fortey: Noah’s Flood
- Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History by William Ryan and Walter Pitman
Mark Greenberg: the doomsday argument
- The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie
Steven Shapin on Kary Mullis
- Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis
John Upton
- The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry by Sir William Macpherson
- The Case of Stephen Lawrence by Brian Cathcart
Judith Butler, Mustapha Marrouchi, Andrew Rubin, Hamid Dabashi, John Byrne, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Linda Montague, Audrey Gillan, John Sweeney, Hugh Lyon, Tom Paulin, Nicholas Mann
Edmund White
- Gilbert & George: A Portrait by Daniel Farson
Jenny Diski
- Lillie Langtry: Manners, Masks and Morals by Laura Beatty
- Véra (Mrs Vladimir Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage by Stacy Schiff
Ian Hacking
- I See a Voice: A Philosophical History of Language, Deafness and the Senses by Jonathan Rée
James Wood
- Canaan by Geoffrey Hill
- The Truth of Love: A Poem by Geoffrey Hill
Jamie McKendrick
- Eugenio Montale: Collected Poems 1920-54 translated by Jonathan Galassi
James Francken
- Matyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane by Sarah Farmer
Dan Jacobson
- The Collected Works of Bruno Schulz edited by Jerzy Ficowski
Justine Jordan
- Other Stories and Other Stories by Ali Smith
Edward Said
- The Right Set: The Faber Book of Tennis edited by Caryl Phillips
Contributors
Jenny Diski’s new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published in November. She is currently bobbing about on the South Atlantic.
Paul Farley’s Tramp in Flames will be published by Picador next autumn. He won the 2005 Forward Prize for the best single poem published last year.
Richard Fortey is a research scientist at the Natural History Museum and visiting professor of palaeobiology at Oxford. The Earth: An Intimate History was shortlisted for the Aventis science writing prize 2005.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Mark Greenberg is Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice. In the academic year that has just ended he was a member of the philosophy and law faculties at Oxford
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Justine Jordan works at the Guardian.
Jamie McKendrick edited the Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems. His collections include Ink Stone, Sky Nails and The Marble Fly.
Paul Muldoon is the author of a libretto, Bandanna, and a translation, with Richard Martin, of Aristophanes’ The Birds. He teaches at Princeton and is Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
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.
Christine Stansell’s latest book is American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century. She is a professor of history at Princeton.
John Tranter’s collections of poems include Late Night Radio (1998). He co-edited the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry and edits the Internet magazine, Jacket
John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.
Edmund White is a novelist and the author of a biography of Proust.
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.
