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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 5 · 2 March 2000
Terry Eagleton spears Stanley Fish
- The Trouble with Principle by Stanley Fish
Roy Porter on HIV and Aids
- The River: A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and Aids by Edward Hooper
Michael Wood: Billy Wilder
- Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe
William Phillips, Aidan Foster-Carter, Peter Moore, Elizabeth Lowry, David Borchard, Joseph White, Douglas Hall, Tim Knapman, A.E. Roberts, John Alpe, Alice Burnett
Zoë Heller
- Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris
Michael Rogin
- Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison, edited by John Callaghan
Ian Hamilton
- No Other Book: Selected Essays by Randall Jarrell, edited by Brad Leithauser
- Remembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic and Teacher Randall Jarrell by Mary von Schrader Jarrell
Theo Tait
- Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
J. Arch Getty
- Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Roger Hardy
- Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism by John Cooley
James Davidson
- A World Full of Gods: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire by Keith Hopkins
Colin Burrow
- Virgil’s Experience: Nature and History; Times, Names and Places by Richard Jenkyns
Rosemary Dinnage
- Identity’s Architect: A Biography of Erik Erikson by Lawrence Friedman
Contributors
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Rosemary Dinnage is a writer on literary and psychoanalytical subjects who lives in London.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
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.
Penelope Fitzgerald, a frequent and much-missed contributor to the London Review, died in 2000. She wrote three biographies and ten works of fiction, all in print.
J. Arch Getty is the author of The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks 1932-39. He is a professor of history at UCLA.
Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels - and on football - to the LRB. He died on 27 December 2001.
Roger Hardy is a freelance journalist who has specialised for many years in the Middle East.
Zoë Heller’s novel, Everything You Know, came out in 1999.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
John Kinsella’s most recent book of poems is The New Arcadia.
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.
Roy Porter, who died in March 2002, was a regular, much admired and much envied contributor to the LRB: he was the author of an astonishing number of books, including London: A Social History (1994), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997) and Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2000).
Michael Rogin died in November 2001. Stephen Greenblatt wrote about him in the LRB of 3 January 2002.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.