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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 13 · 5 July 2001
Nick Ainsley, Murray Sayle, Adrian Bowyer, John Stow, Chris Purnell, Zachary Leader, Daniel Eisenstein, Peter Wollen, William Lamont
Ross McKibbin wonders whether the election will improve New Labour’s grasp on reality
Ian Gilmour on why Kenneth Clarke should lead the Tories
Colin Burrow on George Gascoigne
- A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres by George Gascoigne, edited by G.W. Pigman
Thomas Jones: the biography of stuff
Patrick Collinson
- Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story by John Bossy
Thomas Nagel
- republic.com by Cass Sunstein
Peter Campbell: Vermeer and de Hooch
John Sutherland: the future of books
- Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future by Jason Epstein
Joanna Kavenna
- A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
Contributors
Christopher de Bellaigue is the Economist’s reporter in Tehran. He is writing a book about Iran for HarperCollins.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.
Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died on 21 September 2007.
Jorie Graham’s new collection, Sea Change, will be out in the spring.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule is published by Viking. She currently holds a writing fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.
Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays is his most recent book.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
David Sylvester, who wrote many memorable pieces for this paper, died on 19 June 2001.
