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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 4 · 17 February 2000
Neal Ascherson: The Incomparable Tom Nairn
- After Britain: New Labour and the Return of Scotland by Tom Nairn
Andy Beckett on Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City by Dave Haslam
- Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City by Dave Haslam
Thomas Jones on Molesworth
- Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
Peter Wollen: How art becomes kitsch
- The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience by Celeste Olalquiaga
Jeremy Treglown, Pat Hutley, Sylvia Elias, Michael Byers, Frank Kermode, L.P.E. Edwards, Ivor Kraft, D.J. Taylor, Charles Landon, Alex de Waal, Jeffrey Sievert, David Wootton, Christopher Dolan
Michael Dobson
- In My End Is My Beginning: A Life of Mary Queen of Scots by James Mackay
- Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation by Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
- Ancestry and Narrative in 19th-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy by Sophie Gilmartin
Adam Phillips
- Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters by Ted Cohen
John Mullan
- The Dunciad in Four Books by Alexander Pope, edited by Valerie Rumbold
Derek Jarrett
- Edmund Burke. Vol. I: 1730-84 by F.P. Lock
Mary Beard: What’s left of John Soame
- John Soane: An Accidental Romantic by Gillian Darley
- John Soane, Architect: Master of Space and Light by Margaret Richardson and Mary-Anne Stevens
- Sir John Soane and the Country Estate by Ptolemy Dean
Wendy Doniger: Harry Potter Explained
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
John Bayley
- The Charterhouse of Parma by Henri B. Stendhal, translated by Richard Howard
Graham Robb
- La Grand Thérèse or The Greatest Swindle of the Century by Hilary Spurling
Richard Gott: Hugo Chávez and the Venezuelan Revolution
Contributors
Neal Ascherson’s books include The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea. He is an honorary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
John Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford from 1974 to 1992.
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.
Andy Beckett’s Pinochet in Piccadilly is out in paperback. He is writing a book about Britain in the 1970s.
Allen Curnow, a poet often published and much admired by the LRB, died in September 2001. Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems, 1941-97 is available from Carcanet. The Bells of Saint Babel’s has just been published in paperback.
Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of, among other books, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India and The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.
Vesna Goldsworthy’s Inventing Ruritania came out in 1998.
Richard Gott has written several books about Latin America, including Cuba: A New World.
Derek Jarrett’s edition of Memoirs of the Reign of King George III by Horace Walpole, was published in 2000.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
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.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century was published in 2003.
Peter Wollen teaches at UCLA.
