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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 4 · 22 February 2001
R.W. Johnson, Michael Neve, Mary-Kay Wilmers, Stuart Griffiths, Caryle Adams, Joseph Nuttgens, J.S.F. Parker, Lucy Penhaligon, C.K. Stead, Neil Forster, Helen Robertson, Margaret Morgan, Nora Crook, J. D.
John Bossy
- The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman by Barbara Howard Traister
- Dr Simon Forman: A Most Notorious Physician by Judith Cook
Frank Kermode: Auden’s Shakespeare
- Lectures on Shakespeare by W.H. Auden, edited by Arthur Kirsch
Colin Burrow
- Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso, translated by Anthony Esolen
Justine Jordan
- MotherKind by Jayne Anne Phillips
Mary Hawthorne
- The Diaries of Dawn Powell 1931-65 edited by Tim Page
Thomas Jones: Anna Karenina, New Puritans, Books on Cooking the Books
Michael Rogin: Josephine Baker
- The Josephine Baker Story by Ean Wood
- Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s by Petrine Archer-Straw
David Kennedy
- Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy by Desmond King
R.W. Johnson talks to Wilfred Mhanda
Paul Foot
- Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain by George Monbiot
- No Logo by Naomi Klein
Terry Eagleton
- In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway
Rosemary Hill
- The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius and Laughter in Literary London, 1817 by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
Christopher Tayler
- London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Peter Campbell: Century City
Contributors
John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.
Colin Burrow, a senior research fellow at All Souls, Oxford, edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare and introduced Troilus and Cressida for Penguin.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Allen Curnow, a poet often published and much admired by the LRB, died in September 2001. Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems, 1941-97 is available from Carcanet. The Bells of Saint Babel’s has just been published in paperback.
Terry Eagleton’s Ideology: An Introduction has been reissued with a new preface.
Paul Foot died in July 2004. He wrote 60 pieces for the LRB – on subjects including Leon Britain, the Birmingham Six, MI5, Tiny Rowland, Neil Hamilton, Gordon Brown and (often) Shelley.
Wynne Godley was a professional oboe player for some years in his twenties; in his thirties he joined the Treasury, where he reached the rank of Under-Secretary; in 1970 he became a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge and, later, was appointed director of the Department of Applied Economics. He now lives in the US and is writing an autobiography and a treatise on macro-economics.
Mary Hawthorne is on the staff of the New Yorker.
Rosemary Hill, whose biography of Pugin is just out and much acclaimed, is writing a PhD thesis on antiquaries.
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.
Justine Jordan works at the Guardian.
David Kennedy is Donald McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-45 won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Alison Light teaches English at Newcastle. Mrs Woolf and the Servants came out last summer.
Chuma Nwokolo’s African Tales at Jailpoint was published in Nigeria in 1999. ‘Diary of a Dead African’ is part of a work in progress.
Michael Rogin died in November 2001. Stephen Greenblatt wrote about him in the LRB of 3 January 2002.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
