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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 11 · 1 June 2000
Ian Hamilton on Kingsley Amis
Edward Said describes an encounter with J-P Sartre
John Upton is back in court
Terry Philpot, Julian Roach, Douglas Kretzmann, Gloria Grove-Stephensen, R.W. Johnson, Alfred Jowett, Anthony Beck, Julian Burgess, Kevan Martin, Geoffrey Lock, Paul Romney, Leo Zaibert, Myron Kaplan, Charley Seavey, F.S. Schwarzbach, Michael Brookes, Catherine Conybeare, Editor, ‘London Review’
R.W. Johnson: The Land Wars of Southern Africa
David Trotter: The Sorrows of Young Ford
- Return to Yesterday by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Bill Hutchings
- War Prose by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Max Saunders
Colin Burrow: Kermode’s Shakespeare
John Bossy: Renaissance Astrology
- Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Grafton
Brian Rotman
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
- In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery
- Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau
Iain Sinclair goes to Hoxton
- 45 by Bill Drummond
- Crucify Me Again by Mark Manning
Eric Foner
- Working-Class New York: Life and Labour Since World War Two by Joshua Freeman
Martin Jay
- The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy by Russell Jacoby
- Utopias: Russian Modernist Texts 1905-40 edited by Catriona Kelly
- The Faber Book of Utopias edited by John Carey
- The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert Proctor
Paul Smith
- Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values by Philip Williamson
Bernard Porter
- The Struggle for Civil Liberties: Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in bBritian 1914-1945 by K. D. Ewing and C.A. Gearty
Terry Eagleton in confessional mode
- Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature by Peter Brooks
James Wood: Speaking our Minds
Mark Rudman
- Approximately Nowhere by Michael Hoffman
Contributors
John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.
Colin Burrow, a senior research fellow at All Souls, Oxford, edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare and introduced Troilus and Cressida for Penguin.
Terry Eagleton’s Ideology: An Introduction has been reissued with a new preface.
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. His most recent book is Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Raymond Friel’s collections of poems include Seeing the River and Renfrewshire in Old Photographs.
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.
Martin Jay is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent work is Refractions of Violence.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Robert Macfarlane teaches at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination won the Guardian First Book Award.
Les Murray was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1999; he is published in the UK by Carcanet.
Ruth Padel’s The Poem and the Journey is out from Chatto.
Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.
Brian Rotman is a member of the faculty of comparative studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Signifying Nothing (about zero) and of Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing’s Machine.
Mark Rudman’s last collection was Sundays on the Phone; he is working on a new one, to be called On the Firing Line.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Iain Sinclair has edited London, City of Disappearances, which will be published in the autumn.
Paul Smith’s edition of Bagehot’s English Constitution came out this year.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
David Trotter is a professor of English at Cambridge and the author of The English Novel in History, The Making of the Reader and, most recently, Cinema and Modernism.
John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.