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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 6 · 16 March 2000
Jane Binyon writes about rail safety
Terry Castle: A Garland for Colette
- Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
David Rose writes about accidents in the construction and demolition industries
John Vincent: Reforming the Lords
- Reforming the House of Lords: Lessons from Overseas by Meg Russell
Edward Luttwak, Theresa Wells-King, Donald John Lachowicz, Freeman B. Crouch III, Richard Thompson, Julian Burgess, Nicholas Murray, Richard Gott, John Kane-Berman, Christine Sypnowich, Lindesay Irvine, Bernard Bergonzi, Phyllis Wright King, Michael Coates, Jim Cook, Diana Hendry
Inga Clendinnen
- Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography by Susanna Egan
Zachary Leader
- Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse
John Upton
- King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick
- Muhammad Ali: Ringside edited by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi
Richard Rorty on H.-G. Gadamer
Patrick Carnegy
- In House: Covent Garden, 50 Years of Opera and Ballet by John Tooley
- Never Mind the Moon: My Time at the Royal Opera House by Jeremy Isaacs
John Reader
- The Politics of the Independence of Kenya by Keith Kyle
Richard Davenport-Hines
- Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels 1830-47 by Juliet John
Jason Brown
- Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age by John Jakle and Keith Sculle
Contributors
Jane Binyon worked in various capacities for the Heath and Safety Executive for 24 years, interrupted by a secondment to the CBI, where she reported on ‘safety cultures’. She retired in 1998.
Jason Brown’s collection of stories, Driving the Heart, is published by Cape.
Stephen Burt’s The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence came out last year; he teaches at Harvard. A collection of his essays on contemporary poets will appear next year.
Patrick Carnegy is working on a book to be called Wagner and the Art of the Theatre.
Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com
Inga Clendinnen’s most recent books are Reading the Holocaust and Tiger’s Eye: A Memoir.
Richard Davenport-Hines has written the entries on Jack the Ripper and other serial killers for the New Dictionary of National Biography. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics 1500-2000 was published in 2001.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Zachary Leader has edited The Letters of Kingsley Amis, and plays tennis with Martin.
Charles Nicholl’s most recent book is The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street.
Dennis O’Driscoll works for Customs in Dublin. His fifth volume of poems, Weather Permitting, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
John Reader was a photo-journalist based in Nairobi from 1969 to 1979. Africa: A Biography of the Continent is out from Penguin.
Richard Rorty, whose books included Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Truth and Progress, was professor emeritus of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. He died in June 2007.
David Rose is on the staff of the London Review of Books
John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.
John Vincent is a professor of history at the University of Bristol. His books include The Formation of the Liberal Party, Disraeli and An Intelligent Person’s Guide to History.
A.N. Wilson is the author of many works of fiction and non-fiction.
