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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 22 · 16 November 2000
William Flesch, Hal Foster, Hugh Perkins, Charles Homsy, Isobel Grundy, W.S. Milne, Maurice Marks, Chris Price, Ron Haggart, Peter Williams, Peter Landers, D.A. Reichardt
Adam Phillips on Charm
- Lost Years: A Memoir 1945-51 by Christopher Isherwood, edited by Katherine Bucknell
James Meek writes about Promiscuity by Tim Birkhead
- Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict by Tim Birkhead
Elizabeth Spelman: Martha Nussbaum
- Sex and Social Justice by Martha Nussbaum
- Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach by Martha Nussbaum
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
- Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters by Linda Hunt Beckman
Daniel Soar
- Hey Yeah Right Get a Life by Helen Simpson
Peter Wollen: Tank by Patrick Wright
Thomas Jones: Dead Babies
Peter Campbell: Painting the Century
Sam Gilpin
- Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
Ian Sansom
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Gregory Woods
- The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck by John W.M. Hallock
Frances Wilson
- Felicia Hemans: ‘Records of Woman’ with Other Poems edited by Paula Feldman
James Buchan
- The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter Bernstein
Simon Schaffer
- Isaac Newton: The ‘Principia’ Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy translated by I. Bernard Cohen
Contributors
James Buchan’s books include Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money, Crowded with Genius and, most recently, Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Gerard Fanning’s latest collection is Water & Power.
Sam Gilpin is writing his first novel.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Simon Schaffer teaches the history of science at Cambridge. His collection of essays on inquiry and invention from the Renaissance to early industrialisation, co-edited with Lissa Roberts and Peter Dear, is due next year.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Elizabeth Spelman teaches philosophy at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is working on a slim book exploring the nature of abundance.
Megan Vaughan teaches at Cambridge. Psychiatry and Empire was published last year.
Frances Wilson is the author of Literary Seductions. She teaches at Reading University.
Peter Wollen teaches at UCLA.
Gregory Woods is the author of A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English at Yale. Her new book is Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.
