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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 17 · 6 September 2001
Nicholas Jenkins
- Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams by Mark Ford
Rupert Forbes, Christopher Small, John Coles, Nick Potter, Keith Flett, Chris Morrissey, Peter Lipton, Harold Dorn, Claude Rawson, Peter Mackridge
Frank Kermode
- Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
Jenny Diski on Misogyny: The Male Malady by David Gilmore
- Misogyny: The Male Malady by David Gilmore
Katha Pollitt
- The Curse: Confronting the Last Taboo, Menstruation by Karen Houppert
Daniel Soar
- Schooling by Heather McGowan
Thomas Jones: Jonathan Lethem
Conor Gearty
- To Raise up a New Northern Ireland: Articles and Speeches 1998-2000 by David Trimble
John Sturrock at the Test Match
Michael Byers writes about Canada’s reluctance to stand up for itself
Christopher Turner
- Cities for a Small Country by Richard Rogers and Anne Power
- Urban Futures 21: A Global Agenda for 21st-Century Cities by Peter Hall and Ulrich Pfeiffer
David A. Bell
- Napoleon the Novelist by Andy Martin
James Meek considers the never-ending wish to write about the Second World War
- Ghost MacIndoe by Jonathan Buckley
- The Twins by Tessa de Loo
- Riptide by John Lawton
- The Day We Had Hitler Home by Rodney Hall
- Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
- The Fire Fighter by Francis Cottam
- The Element of Water by Stevie Davies
- The Bronze Horsewoman by Paullina Simons
- The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Rosemary Hill
- The Buildings of England: A Celebration Compiled to Mark 50 Years of the Pevsner Architectural Guides edited by Simon Bradley and Bridget Cherry
Sarah LeFanu
- Gwen John: A Life by Sue Roe
Dinah Birch
- Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman by Catherine Robson
Peter Campbell: Children’s clothes
Rory Stewart walks across Iran
Contributors
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
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.
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at the LSE, has written a number of books on terrorism and human rights.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Nicholas Jenkins teaches at Stanford University. He is completing The Island: W.H. Auden and the Making of Post-National Poetry.
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.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Sarah LeFanu lives in Claverham, near Bristol. She is researching a biography of Rose Macaulay.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
Katha Pollitt is the author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics and Culture.
Robin Robertson’s Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea was published by Vintage this year.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between describes his walk across Afghanistan in 2001. He has worked for the British government in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, and is now a fellow of the Carr Centre at Harvard.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Christopher Turner’s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Britain and Farrar, Straus in the US.
