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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 23 · 25 November 1999
Helen Cooper on Chrétien de Troyes
- Perceval: The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes, translated by Burton Raffel
Glen Newey on Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover
- Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover
Peter Wollen on The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism by J. Hoberman
- The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism by J. Hoberman
Perry Anderson
- History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the Nineties by Timothy Garton Ash
Michael Howard, Jessamy Harvey, Frank Grace, Iain Edwards, David Dyzenhaus, Faye Crompton, Elizabeth Lowry, Ruth Evans, James Wood, Eva Tucker, Harold Love, Andrew Hussey, Peter John Shreve
Tom Paulin: Life and Vowels of Andrew Marvell
- World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell by Nicholas Murray
- Marvell and Liberty edited by Warren Chernaik and Martin Dzelzainis
- Andrew Marvell edited by Thomas Healy
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
- Henry James: A Life in Letters edited by Philip Horne
- A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art by Lyndall Gordon
E.S. Turner
- The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display by Jeffrey Auerbach
Dan Jacobson on sexual favours in colonial East Africa
Richard Fortey
- The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indochina by Roger Osborne
Jenny Diski
- Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
- Adventures in Marxism by Marshall Berman
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air won the 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize. The first volume of his collected poems will be published by the Library of America.
Helen Cooper is a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge and the author of The English Romance in Time.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
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.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Glen Newey is a reader in politics at Strathclyde University.
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.
Neil Rollinson’s Demolition will be published by Cape in September.
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.
Leslie Wilson’s most recent book is Last Train from Kummersdorf. She lives in Berkshire.
Peter Wollen teaches at UCLA.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English at Yale. Her new book is Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.