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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 16 · 23 August 2001
Mary Beard on Cicero
- Cicero: A Turbulent Life by Anthony Everitt
Leo Abse, Claude Romney, Axel Harvey, Steve Fuller, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, Henry Schermer, J.G. Finlayson, J.F. Darycott
John Lanchester
- Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous by Don Foster
Andrew Sugden
- Extinct Birds by Errol Fuller
Patrick Wright
- A History of Bombing by Sven Lindqvist, translated by Linda Haverty Rugg
- The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive 1939-45 by Robin Niellands
- Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald
Alex de Waal
- Like Water on Stone: The Story of Amnesty International by Jonathan Power
- Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21st Century by Michael Edwards
- East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia by Daniel Bell
Thomas Jones: 10,860 novels
Terry Eagleton on Claude Rawson
- God, Gulliver and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination 1492-1945 by Claude Rawson
John Mullan
- Fanny Burney: A Biography by Claire Harman
- Fanny Burney: Her Life by Kate Chisholm
- Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III by Hester Davenport
Hal Foster on Frank Gehry
- Frank Gehry: The Art of Architecture edited by Jean-Louis Cohen et al
Gilberto Perez
- John Cassavetes: Lifeworks by Tom Charity
- Cassavetes on Cassavetes edited by Ray Carney
Jessica Olin
- Crawling at Night by Nani Power
Robert Macfarlane
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke
- The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill
Jeremy Harding: Pilger pictures
Contributors
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
Jonathan Dollimore’s books include Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture and Sex, Literature and Censorship.
Terry Eagleton is, among other things, professor of cultural theory at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His latest book is Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Robert Macfarlane teaches at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination won the Guardian First Book Award.
Sarah Maguire is the only living English-language poet with a book in print in Arabic - her selected poems, Haleeb Muraq, translated by Saadi Yousef.
John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.
Jessica Olin lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Gilberto Perez is the author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Andrew Sugden, an editor at Science in Cambridge, used to be a forest ecologist in tropical America.
Alex de Waal is programme director at the Social Science Research Council and the author, with Julie Flint, of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War.
Patrick Wright’s Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War, will be published in October by Oxford. The sequel, which will appear next year, is concerned with Rex Warner, Barbara Castle, Stanley Spencer, Clement Attlee, A.J. Ayer and the other British delegates who visited China in 1954, the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the People’s Republic.
