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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 12 · 21 June 2001
Murray Sayle on climate change
- The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming by David Victor
- Managing the Planet: The Politics of the New Millennium by Norman Moss
Robert Storr, Deborah Friedell, Pamela Oakley, Rev. Tim Russ, Chris Oakley, Adam Roberts, Neal Wade, Phil Edwards, Alexander Evans, Keith Flett, Julian Burgess, Lynn Jones, Yuliy Baryshnikov
R.W. Johnson
- A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide by Linda Melvern
Geoffrey Best
- The ‘Times’ and Appeasement: The Journals of A.L. Kennedy 1932-39 edited by Gordon Martel
- Churchill and Appeasement by R.A.C. Parker
Paul Strohm
- Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life by Herman Pleij, translated by Diane Webb
A.D. Nuttall
- How Milton Works by Stanley Fish
Germaine Greer
- Order and Disorder by Lucy Hutchinson, edited by David Norbrook
Thomas Jones: Britney’s Biggest Fan
Frank Kermode
- Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000 by Jonathan Croall
- John G.: The Authorised Biography of John Gielgud by Sheridan Morley
- John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life by Gyles Brandreth
Zachary Leader: Gore Vidal’s Golden Age
- The Golden Age: A Novel by Gore Vidal
Robert Irwin
- Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac
- Tibet: The Great Game and Tsarist Russia by Tatiana Shaumian
Adam Hochschild
- The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska
Paul Henley
- Anthropologie et cinéma: Passage à l'image, passage par l'image by Marc Henri Piault
- Transcultural Cinema by David MacDougall
Colin Tudge at the zoo
- A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future by David Hancocks
David Wheatley
- The Donkey’s Ears: Politovsky’s Letters Home by Douglas Dunn
- The Year's Afternoon by Douglas Dunn
Peter Campbell: James Gillray
Contributors
Geoffrey Best’s Churchill and War was published in 2005. He taught history at Sussex for many years.
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.
Germaine Greer’s The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work has been reissued. She teaches English at the University of Warwick.
Paul Henley is a professor of visual anthropology at the Granada Centre, University of Manchester. He is currently writing a study of ethnographic documentary-making.
Adam Hochschild is the author of King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Central Africa.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
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.
R.F. Langley’s Collected Poems came out from Carcanet in 2000 and a later collection, The Face of It, also from Carcanet, in 2007. Shearsman Books published his prose Journals in 2006.
Zachary Leader has edited The Letters of Kingsley Amis, and plays tennis with Martin.
A.D. Nuttall’s many books include Dead From the Waist Down, a study of the idea of the scholar in relation to sexuality. He is a fellow of New College, Oxford.
Tim Salmon has spent many years in Greece and has written a book about the Pindos mountains, The Unwritten Places.
Murray Sayle is a veteran foreign correspondent who has been living in Japan.
Paul Smith’s edition of Bagehot’s English Constitution came out this year.
Paul Strohm, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, teaches medieval literature, critical theory and film studies. He is the author of Theory and the Premodern Text.
Colin Tudge is a former member of the Council of London Zoo. The Variety of Life is published by Oxford.
John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.
Robert VanderMolen lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Breath appeared in 2000.
David Wheatley, whose collections include Thirst, Misery Hill and Mocker, teaches at Hull.