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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 21 · 28 October 1999
Iain Bamforth on the poetry of Günter Grass
- Selected Poems: 1956-93 by Günter Grass, translated by Michael Hamburger
Paul Foot: the Labour Party’s vacillation over rail privatisation
Slavoj Žižek: Václav Havel
- Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts by John Keane
Geoffrey Elliott, Anthony Lewis, V.M. Hunt, David Brokensha, Oleg Gordievsky, Tom Paulin, David Stirzaker, John Jolliffe, Paul Usherwood, Jonathan Mirsky, William Myers, Pasquale Montagna, Phil Edwards, Elizabeth Lowry, Thomas Ingram
Jonathan Steinberg
- The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson
John Mullan
- Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Volume I by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, edited by Philip Ayres
- Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Volume II by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, edited by Philip Ayres
Tony Harrison: ‘Fruitility’
Frank Kermode
- Basil Street Blues: A Family Story by Michael Holroyd
John Reader
- The Physician and the Slave Trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone Expeditions, and the Crusade against Slavery in East Africa by Daniel Liebowitz
Alan Ryan
- The Cambridge Apostles 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life by W.C. Lubenow
Francis Spufford: Britain’s space programme
Frances Wilson
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Selected Poetry edited by Judith Higgens and Michael Bradshaw
Patrick Sims-Williams
- The Atlantic Celts: Ancient People or Modern Invention? by Simon James
James Francken
- For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
Nick Cohen
- Living on Thin Air: The New Economy by Charles Leadbeater
Robert Tombs
- Le Monde retrouvó de Louis-François Pinagot: Sur let Traces d’un Inconnu, 1798-1876 by Alain Corbin
Contributors
Iain Bamforth, who lives in Strasbourg, is preparing a collection of essays on literature and medicine.
Nick Cohen’s Cruel Britannia is published by Verso.
Paul Foot died in July 2004. He wrote 60 pieces for the LRB – on subjects including Leon Britain, the Birmingham Six, MI5, Tiny Rowland, Neil Hamilton, Gordon Brown and (often) Shelley.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.
John Reader was a photo-journalist based in Nairobi from 1969 to 1979. Africa: A Biography of the Continent is out from Penguin.
Alan Ryan’s books include Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill. He is warden of New College, Oxford.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Patrick Sims-Williams, a native of Kent, is profesor of Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the editor of Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies.
Francis Spufford’s The Child that Books Built is out from Faber. He is working on a book about technology in Britain since the 1970s.
Jonathan Steinberg, Reader in Modern European History at Cambridge, is the author of The Deutsche Bank and its Gold Transactionsin the Second World War.
Robert Tombs is a fellow St John’s College, Cambridge and the author of Paris Commune, 1871.
Frances Wilson is the author of Literary Seductions. She teaches at Reading University.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.
