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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 15 · 29 July 1999
Thomas Laqueur: Medicomania
- The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter Buy this book
Richard Taylor, W.S. Milne, Macneil of Barra, Tom Buscher, George Barnard, Ivan Hewett, John Bale, Bruce Clunies Ross, Sean Callow
John Lanchester on Hannibal by Thomas Harris
- Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Patrick Collinson: Incombustible Luther
- Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death by Richard Marius
John Sutherland
- My Tiny Life: Crime and Punishment in a Virtual World by Donald Dibbell
Hugh Haughton
- Man from Babel by Eugene Jolas
- No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider edited by Maurice Harmon
Martin Jay: Clinton Baiting
- All too Human: A Political Education by George Stephanopoulos
- No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton by Christopher Hitchens
Peter Campbell
- Morandi edited by Ernst-Gerhard Güse and Franz Armin Morat
William Fiennes
- Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez Buy this book
- About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez
Jasper Becker
- The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. III: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-66 by Roderick MacFarquhar
D.J. Enright
- The Chain’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds by Jonathan Spence
E.S. Turner
- The Mysterious Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers by Teresa Ransom
Contributors
Jasper Becker, author of Hungry Ghosts and The Chinese, is the Beijing bureau chief of the South China Morning Post.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.
D.J. Enright was a poet, novelist and academic. He taught for many years in universities in South-East Asia. He died in December 2002.
William Fiennes’s The Snow Geese was published by Picador in 2002.
Jorie Graham’s new collection, Sea Change, will be out in the spring.
Hugh Haughton’s Derek Mahon and Modern Irish Poetry will be published next year. He is working with Valerie Eliot on the letters of T.S. Eliot.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
Martin Jay is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent work is Refractions of Violence.
John Lanchester has been given this year’s E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Family Romance, is out in paperback.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Sarah Rigby edited Patricia Beer’s As I Was Saying Yesterday: Selected Essays and Reviews, published by Carcanet. Some years ago she worked for this paper: now she lives in New York City.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
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.
Mary-Kay Wilmers is the editor of the London Review of Books.
