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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 16 · 24 August 2000
James Davidson writes about The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens by Danielle Allen
- The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens by Danielle Allen
Ross McKibbin, Keith Flett, Peter Best, Michael Stewart, Max Smith, Timothy Knapman, Edward Said, Alistair Stead, Richard Storey
Jenny Diski: The Town that Disney Built
- The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town by Andrew Ross
- Celebration, USA: Living in Disney’s Brave New Town by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
Anatol Lieven: What E.H.Carr Got Right
Tony Wood
- A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine by Anka Muhlstein, translated by Teresa Waugh
Alex Ross: Gustav Mahler
- Gustav Mahler, Vol. III. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904 to 1907) by Henry-Louis de La Grange
- The Mahler Companion edited by Donald Mitchell and Andrew Nicholson
Blair Worden
- The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making by Adrian Johns
- Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe
Ian Sansom
- Where Did It All Go Right? by A. Alvarez
Danny Karlin bows to Emily Dickinson
- The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition edited by R.W. Franklin
- The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition edited by R.W. Franklin
- Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception by Domhnall Mitchell
James Francken
- The Reasons I Won't Be Coming by Elliot Perlman
- Turn of the Century by Kurt Anderson
- Slab Rat by Ted Heller
E.S. Turner: The Beastliness of Saki
- The Unrest-Cure and Other Beastly Tales by Saki
Amit Chaudhuri: a short story
Lewis Nkosi
- Winds Can Wake Up the Dead: An Eric Waldrond Reader edited by Louis Parascandola
Charles Yang writes about Words and Rules: the Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker
- Words and Rules: the Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker
Contributors
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Alex Clark is a freelance journalist who lives in London.
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.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Danny Karlin, who teaches English at University College London, is the author of Browning’s Hatreds.
Anatol Lieven reported from Moscow for the Times from 1990 to 1996 and is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. His latest book is Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World.
Lewis Nkosi, the South-African born critic and novelist, is teaching at the University of Wyoming. His novel, Mating Birds, is published by Ravan Press.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Alex Ross is the New Yorker’s music critic.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
Tony Wood is the deputy editor of New Left Review and the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence.
Blair Worden is research professor in history at Royal Holloway College in London. Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England is coming out in the autumn.
Charles Yang teaches linguistics at Yale and is writing a book about language acquisition in children.
