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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 18 · 16 September 1999
Mary Beard: Pompeii
- Pompeii: Public and Private Life by Paul Zanker, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider
Mark Ford on John Cale
- What’s Welsh for Zen? The Autobiography of John Cale by John Cale and Victor Bockris
Stephen Sedley: What will happen to the Law Lords?
- The House of Lords: Its Parliamentary and Judicial Roles edited by Brice Dickson and Paul Carmichael
- Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years edited by Robert Hazell
- The Law and Parliament edited by Dawn Olivier and Gavin Drewry
- Crown Powers: Subject and Citizens by Christopher Vincenzi
Anthony Sampson, Margaret Kennedy, P.S. Joll, A.J. Caston, Roger Deakin, William Harshaw, Michael Prior, Dan Jacobson, David Norbrook
Germaine Greer: Rochester as New Man
- The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester edited by Harold Love
Thomas Jones
- Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler
Peter Campbell
- Anthony van Dyck 1599-1641 by Christopher Brown and Hans Vlieghe
- Anthony van Dyck: A Life, 1599-1641 by Robin Blake
Avi Shlaim on why peace with Syria and the Palestinians is getting closer
E.H.H. Green
- Bonar Law by R.J.Q. Adams
Peter Bradshaw
- Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill edited by Mary Soames
Will Woodward at the Iowa Straw Poll
James Peach
- My Phantom Husband by Marie Darrieussecq, translated by Helen Stevenson
Tom Paulin: Summer in Donegal
Contributors
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
Peter Bradshaw’s novel Lucky Baby Jesus was published in 1999.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He teaches at University College London.
E.H.H. Green is the author of The Crisis of Conservatism: The Politics, Economics and Ideology of the Conservative Party, 1880-1914.
Germaine Greer’s The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work has been reissued. She teaches English at the University of Warwick.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
James Peach has completed a diploma at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.
Mark Rudman’s last collection was Sundays on the Phone; he is working on a new one, to be called On the Firing Line.
Stephen Sedley is a Lord Justice of Appeal for England and Wales and a contributor of legal biographies to the DNB.
Avi Shlaim, a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, is the author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.
Matthew Sweeney’s Selected Poems came out in 2002. His most recent collection, Sanctuary, was published by Cape last autumn.
Will Woodward is a reporter for the Guardian.