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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 15 · 10 August 2000
Colm Tóibín on Brian Moore
- Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist by Denis Sampson
Diana Coyle, David Sogge, Kieron O’Hara, Chris Purnell, Eileen Shubb Lottman, John Langton, Toby Young, John Lanchester, Esther Allen, Sally Minogue, Richard Fortey, Timothy Stunt, Fay Zwicky, Jane Brady, Edward Luttwak, Alexandra Stamp, Stuart Pierson, Neil Ferguson
James Wood: Homage to Verga
- Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories by Giovanni Verga, translated by G.H. McWilliam
Stephen Sedley on freedom of information
Marjorie Garber: Messy Business
- Cooking with Mud: The Idea of Mess in 19th-Century Art and Fiction by David Trotter
Elaine Showalter goes shopping
- Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End by Erika Diane Rappaport
Christopher Hitchens: The PR Crowd
- Partisans: Marriage, Politics and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals by David Laskin
David Wootton: Tudor Microhistory
- Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy
- A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the Second Earl of Castlehaven by Cynthia Herrup
Alison Jolly
- Mother Nature: Natural Selection and the Female of the Species by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Nicholas Penny: Caravaggio in the Studio
- Caravaggio by Catherine Puglisi
- Caravaggio' Secrets by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit
- M by Peter Robb
- Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History by Mieke Bal
- Doubting Thomas: A Novel About Caravaggio by Atle Naess, translated by Anne Born
- Caravaggio: A Life by Helen Langdon
Dinah Birch
- John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton
Inga Clendinnen: Hairy Humbert
- Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings edited by Brian Boyd and Michael Pyle
- Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates
Steven Shapin
- Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne by Anita Guerrini
William Ian Miller
- Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions by Jon Elster
Ruth Scurr
- The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt
Sam Gilpin
- The Forger by Paul Watkins
Landeg White
- In Search of Africa by Manthia Diawara
Jon Cannon visits the Chinese – North Korean border
Contributors
Dinah Birch’s new book, Our Victorian Education, will be published later this year.
Jon Cannon is writing a book about English cathedrals. He lives in Wiltshire.
Inga Clendinnen’s most recent books are Reading the Holocaust and Tiger’s Eye: A Memoir.
Marjorie Garber teaches English at Harvard. Quotation Marks and, with Nancy Vickers, The Medusa Reader are both due from Routledge.
Sam Gilpin is writing his first novel.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
Alison Jolly is a biologist at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Lucy’s Legacy and Lords and Lemurs.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Christopher Logue’s memoir, Prince Charming, came out in 1999.
William Ian Miller is the author of The Anatomy of Disgust; The Mystery of Courage,
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Ruth Scurr has been appointed to a post-doctoral fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge.
Stephen Sedley is a Lord Justice of Appeal for England and Wales and a contributor of legal biographies to the DNB.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
Landeg White’s verse translation of Luís Vaz de Camões’s The Lusiads appeared in 1997.
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.
David Wootton’s Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates will be published by Oxford in June. He teaches early modern history at the University of York, where he is an Anniversary Professor.
