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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 14 · 20 July 2000
Ross McKibbin tells Tony Blair what to do
George Braddon, Patrick McGuinness, Andrew Cowan, Scott Ashley, David Hawkes, Lynne Segal, Marion Kozak, Jo Kelly, Adrian Bowyer, Philip Russell, A. Duane, William Gilbert, Fergus Carroll, Steven Maynard, Michael Payne, Henry Gee, Julian Connerty, Jeffrey Frankland, Robert Fraser, Martin Murray
Andrew O’Hagan
- The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky edited by Joan Acocella, translated by Kyril Fitzylon
- Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
James Meek writes about A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes by Lee Goff
- A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solves Crimes by Lee Goff
Michael Wood
- Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Volume II: Revolution and Reunciation, 1790-1803 by Nicholas Boyle
- Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Williams
John Mullan
- To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury
Thomas Jones
- Mainly about Linsay Anderson by Gavin Lambert
Jerry Fodor writes about the Threefold Cord: Mind, Body and World by Hilary Putnam
- The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body and World by Hilary Putnam
Peter Wollen at Tate Modern
Stephen Burt
- In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art by Russell Ferguson
- The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets by David Lehman
- Frank O’Hara: Poet among Painters by Marjorie Perloff
Lorna Scott Fox
- Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight by Adrian Shubert
Gabriele Annan
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Luke Hughes
- Ghosts of Everest: The Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory & Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb and Larry Johnson
- Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine by Peter Firstbrook
- The Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory by David Breashears and Audrey Salkeld
Andrew Sugden
- Killer Algae: The True Tale of Biological Invasion by Alexandre Meinesz, translated by Daniel Simberloff
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.
John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air won the 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize. The first volume of his collected poems will be published by the Library of America.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
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.
Harry Clifton’s most recent book of poems is God in France: A Paris Sequence 1994-98.
Jerry Fodor is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
Luke Hughes is a furniture designer based in Covent Garden. He has climbed the North Face of the Eiger and to within a thousand feet of the summit of Everest.
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.
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.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
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.
Reviel Netz won a Runciman award for The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study of Cognitive History. He teaches classics at Stanford.
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.
Lorna Scott Fox is an editor and translator who lives in London.
Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between describes his walk across Afghanistan in 2001. He has worked for the British government in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, and is now a fellow of the Carr Centre at Harvard.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Andrew Sugden, an editor at Science in Cambridge, used to be a forest ecologist in tropical America.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Peter Wollen teaches at UCLA.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.