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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 9 · 10 May 2001
Hilary Mantel
- Hellish Nell: Last of Britain’s Witches by Malcolm Gaskill
Edward Luttwak, Premen Addy, Peter Godfrey, Frank Kermode, J.S.F. Parker, Julian Preece, David Buckle, Gwynne Nettler, Phillip Brown
Jonathan Rée: Ventriloquists
- Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism by Steven Connor
Jeremy Harding: The African Galleries
David Bromwich on the Marx Brothers
- Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kanfer
- The Essential Groucho by Groucho Marx, edited by Stefan Kanfer
Thomas Jones: Literary Prizes
Frank Kermode on The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis.
- The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis
Michael Rogin
- I May Not Get there with You: The True Martin Luther King Jr by Michael Eric Dyson
- The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr, Vol. IV: Symbol of the Movement January 1957-December 1958 edited by Clayborne Carson et al
Eric Foner
- Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Life of Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley
Ian Jackman
- Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life by Richard Ben Cramer
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Dinah Birch is the author of Our Victorian Education. She teaches at Liverpool University and is the general editor of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
David Bromwich teaches English at Yale and is the editor of a selection of Burke’s writings, On Empire, Liberty and Reform.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Our Lincoln, an edited volume, will be published in the autumn.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Ian Jackman lives in New York.
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.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Adewale Maja-Pearce is the author of In My Father’s Country and How Many Miles to Babylon? He lives in Lagos.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
Jonathan Rée is a member of the philosopher’s group of the British Humanist Association. He co-edited The Kierkegaard Reader.
Michael Rogin died in November 2001. Stephen Greenblatt wrote about him in the LRB of 3 January 2002.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Hugo Williams’s latest collection is Dear Room.
