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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 15 · 9 August 2001
John Sturrock: Burying André Malraux
Alistair Elliot, Editor, ‘London Review’, Tam and Kathleen Dalyell, George Schlesinger, Kevin Kopelson, Peter Riley, Jon Newman, Mick McManus, Elaine Windrich, R.W. Johnson, Patrick Hughes
Martin Clark
- L'Informatore: Silone, i Comunisti e la polizia by Dario Biocca and Mauro Canali
R.W. Davies
- Midnight Diaries by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Catherine Fitzpatrick
- Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey through the Yeltsin Era by Roy Medvedev, translated by George Shriver
- Zagadka Putina by Roy Medvedev
Jeremy Waldron
- Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by Ronald Dworkin
Helen Cooper
- The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theatre in Early Modern England by Michael O'Connell
Richard Davenport-Hines
- Letters from Prison by the Marquis de Sade, translated by Richard Seaver
- De Sade's Valet by Nikolaj Frobenius, translated by Tom Geddes
Jeremy Noel-Tod
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Buy this book
- Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
- A View of Delft: Vermeer Then and Now by Anthony Bailey
- Vermeer's Camera by Philip Steadman
Ian Sansom: Tony, Nick and Simon
- One for My Baby by Tony Parsons
- How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
- Little Green Man by Simon Armitage
Amit Chaudhuri on R.K. Narayan
William Wootten
- The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins
Robin Fox
- In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker
Peter Campbell: Michael Andrews
Richard Fortey
- The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science by Simon Winchester
Richard Jenkyns
- A History of Greece: From the Time of Solon to 403 BC by George Grote, edited by J.M. Mitchell and M.O.B. Caspari
Simon Collier
- Liberators: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence, 1810-30 by Robert Harvey
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Martin Clark’s books include Modern Italy 1871-1995 , The Italian Risorgimento and Mussolini: Profiles in Power.
Simon Collier, who teaches at Vanderbilt University, is the co-author of Le Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla.
Helen Cooper is a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge and the author of The English Romance in Time.
Richard Davenport-Hines has written the entries on Jack the Ripper and other serial killers for the New Dictionary of National Biography. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics 1500-2000 was published in 2001.
R.W. Davies is a professor at the Centre for Russian and European Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Paul Durcan’s new book of poems, Cries of an Irish Caveman, will appear from Harvill later this year.
Richard Fortey is a research scientist at the Natural History Museum and visiting professor of palaeobiology at Oxford. The Earth: An Intimate History was shortlisted for the Aventis science writing prize 2005.
Robin Fox founded the department of anthropology at Rutgers in 1967. He has written 13 books, the most recent of which is The Passionate Mind.
Matthew Hughes teaches military history at the University of Salford.
Richard Jenkyns, Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford, is the author of The Victorians and Ancient Greece, and, most recently, of Virgil’s Experience.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Jeremy Noel-Tod is about to start a PhD in modern poetry at Cambridge.
Richard Sanger’s first collection of poems, Shadow Cabinet, was published in 1996.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University Law School, is the author of Law and Disagreement and God, Locke and Equality.
William Wootten sells books, when not reviewing them.