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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 22 · 11 November 1999
Frank Kermode: Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips
Stephen Sedley settles in
Alison Light
- Flush by Virginia Woolf, edited by Elizabeth Steele
- Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Tim Minogue, D.J. Richards, Paul Trewhela, R.W. Johnson, Steven Rose, Arnold Rattenbury, Alan Myers
John Bossy
- Marx on Suicide edited by Eric Plaut and Kevin Anderson, translated by Gabrielle Edgcomb
- Suicide in the Middle Ages, Vol I: The Violent Against Themselves by Alexander Murray
- A History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture by Georges Minois, translated by Lydia Cochrane
Patrick Collinson
- The World of the Favourite edited by J.H. Elliott and L.W.B. Brockliss
- The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-97 by Paul Hammer
Colin Burrow
- Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life by W.A. Sessions
Alex de Waal
- Soldiers of Diplomacy: The United Nations, Peacekeeping and the New World Order by Jocelyn Coulon
- Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention edited by Jonathan Moore
- New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in the Global Era by Mary Kaldor
Douglas Johnson
- A Les Trósors Retrouvós de la 'Revue des deux Mondes' edited by Jeanne Causse and Bruno de Cessole
- La Guerre d’Algórie par les Documents. Vol. II: Les Portes de la Guerre, 10 Mars 1946 à 31 Dócembre 1954 edited by Jean-Charles Jauffret
- De Gaulle et L’Algóerie: Mon Tómoinage 1960-62 by Jean Morin
Phyllis Birnbaum
- A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi translated by Eugene Soviak
James Wood
- Letters between a Father and Son by V.S. Naipaul
John Sturrock
- George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large by Belinda Jack
David A. Bell
- Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age by Ruth Harris
Gabrielle Spiegel
- The Lord’s First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage by Alain Boureau, translated by Lydia Cochrane
David Wootton
- Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night by Wolfgang Behringer, translated by H.C.Erik Midelfort
- Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Stuart Clark
- Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England by Alan Macfarlane
- The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Football, Witchcraft, Murder and the King of England by James Sharpe
J.D.F. Jones
- Ladysmith by Giles Foden
- Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries
Contributors
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
Phyllis Birnbaum is the author of a collection of biographical essays on Japanese women.
John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.
Colin Burrow, a senior research fellow at All Souls, Oxford, edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare and introduced Troilus and Cressida for Penguin.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Douglas Johnson is Emeritus Professor of French History at University College London and a senior member of the Franco-British Council.
J.D.F. Jones’s most recent novel is The Buchan Papers. He is writing the authorised biography of Laurens van der Post.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Alison Light teaches English at Newcastle. Mrs Woolf and the Servants came out last summer.
Stephen Sedley is a Lord Justice of Appeal for England and Wales and a contributor of legal biographies to the DNB.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Gabrielle Spiegel, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, specialises in medieval history.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Alex de Waal is programme director at the Social Science Research Council and the author, with Julie Flint, of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War.
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.
David Wootton’s Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates will be published by Oxford in June. He teaches early modern history at the University of York, where he is an Anniversary Professor.
