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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 1 · 6 January 2000
Dave Haslam on club culture
- Adventures in Wonderland: A Decade of Club Culture by Sheryl Garratt
- Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton
- Saturday Night For Ever: The Story of Disco by Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen
- DJ Culture by Ulf Poschardt
- Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds
- More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction by Kodwo Eshun
Christopher Hitchens writes about the candidates for the US the presidency (2000)
Andrew O’Hagan: The Girl and Me
- The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe
- The Complete Marilyn Monroe by Adam Victor
- Marilyn Monroe by Barbara Leaming
Timothy Garton Ash, Christopher Hitchens, Guido Franzinetti, Michael Foot, Paul Mountain, Stafford Maclennan, Jerry Fodor, Mike Eaude, Dominic Kirkham, Robert Mackie
E.S. Turner goes romancing
- Passion’s Fortune: The Story of Mills and Boon by Joseph McAleer
- The Romantic Fiction of Mills and Boon 1909-1995 by Jay Dixon
Declan Kiberd
- The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story by Angela Bourke
Hugo Young
- The Isles: A History by Norman Davies
Amit Chaudhuri: India before Kipling
- The Unforgiving Minute by Harry Ricketts
Gabriele Annan: Gish Jen’s Jokes
Suzanne Moore
- Scandal by Amanda Platell
Ross McKibbin
- Addicted by Tony Adams and Ian Ridley
Norman Finkelstein: Uses of the Holocaust
- The Holocaust in American Life by Peter Novick
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Simon Carnell is working on his first collection of poems.
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Norman Finkelstein teaches at the City University of New York and is the author of The Holocaust Industry.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He teaches at University College London.
Dave Haslam is a former Hacienda DJ, now a radio broadcaster on XFM and the author of Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City and Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin, is the author of Inventing Ireland and Irish Classics.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.
Suzanne Moore started out at Marxism Today: she now writes for The Mail on Sunday.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
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.
Alexander Tikhonov, soon gave up engineering for literary journalism and achieved some celebrity in pre-Revolutionary Russia as the editor of Letopis. After the Revolution he was, briefly, the editor of Russkiy Sovremennik, but that folded after its fourth issue. In 1949 his memoir of the years 1898-1905 was published under the title ‘Times and Places’.
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.
Hugo Young was a political columnist on the Guardian. His books include One of Us, a biography of Margaret Thatcher, and This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair. He died in September 2003.