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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 8 · 19 April 2001
Christopher Small, Murray Sayle, Mary King, Christopher Prendergast, Michael Howard, Lois Oppenheim, Editor, ‘London Review’, Janet Whatley, Fergal Tobin, Michael Dibdin
Terry Eagleton
- Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume One edited by Robert Denham
- Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume Two edited by Robert Denham
Colm Tóibín
- The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis
Peter Campbell: Stanley Spencer
Michael Wood
- Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels by Tabish Khair
- An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
- The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
- The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
James Wood: John Updike’s Licks of Love
- Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, ‘Rabbit Remembered’ by John Updike
Stephen Holmes on Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia by Stephen Cohen
- Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia by Stephen Cohen
Lawrence Hogben follows the chase
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power will be published next year.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels - and on football - to the LRB. He died on 27 December 2001.
Lawrence Hogben was the first Royal Naval Instructor Officer ever to win a DSC. Subsequently, his forecasts helped persuade Eisenhower to postpone D-Day from the stormy 5 June to the more clement 6 June (an episode he recounted in the LRB in 1994).
Stephen Holmes teaches at New York University School of Law. His most recent book is The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Charles Nicholl’s most recent book is The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street.
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.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
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.