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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 19 · 5 October 2000
Edward Luttwak: Put up the price of oil
Julian Roach, Glen Newey, Anatol Lieven, Jamie Wetherall, Martha Nell Smith
Andrew O’Hagan: A Paean to Boswell
- Boswell's Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman
- James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: Research Edition: Vol. II edited by Bruce Redford and Elizabeth Goldring
- Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author by Lawrence Lipking
- Dr Johnson's London by Liza Picard
William Gass: Prologomania
- The Book of Prefaces edited by Alasdair Gray
Elizabeth Lowry: Anne Carson
- Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) by Anne Carson
- Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
Patrick McGuinness: Kray Sisters et al
- The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
- Her Book: Poems 1988-98 by Jo Shapcott
- Zero Gravity by Gwyneth Lewis
Thomas Laqueur: On Death Row
- Proximity to Death by William McFeely
- Death Row: The Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment edited by Bonnie Bobit
Thomas Jones: National Poetry Day
Peter Campbell: Gerrit Dou
Margaret Anne Doody: Iris and Laura
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
E.S. Turner
- A Monkey among Crocodiles: The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of Mrs Georgina Weldon by Brian Thompson
Murray Sayle: How Sydney got its Opera House
- The Masterpiece: Jørn Utzon, a Secret Life by Philip Drew
- Jørn Utzon: The Sydney Opera House by Françoise Fromonot, translated by Christopher Thompson
Anne Enright writes about becoming a mother
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Margaret Anne Doody is John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She is the author of The True Story of the Novel
Anne Enright’s novel The Gathering is out from Cape. There will be a book of stories in the spring.
William Gass is director of the International Writers’ Center at Washington University in St Louis.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Tom Lowenstein’s latest collection is Ancestors and Species: New and Selected Ethnographic Poetry.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, will be published by Quercus in July.
Edward Luttwak is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. His books include The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire and, more recently, Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace.
Patrick McGuinness, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, is the author of Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.
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.
Murray Sayle is a veteran foreign correspondent who has been living in Japan.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
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.
