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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 21 · 1 November 2001
Lorraine Daston
- The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography by J.B. Harley, edited by Paul Laxton
- Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination by Denis Cosgrove
Christopher Prendergast, Todd Ojala, Claude Rawson, Alan Bloxham, Nicholas Simpson, Laleh Khalili, Guy Deutscher, Richard Davenport-Hines, John Palattella, Martin Murray, Christina Gombar, Barth Landor, Charles Plouviez, Anthony Arblaster, Neguin Yavari, Rolf Rembe, Robert Chandler, Geoffrey Ridley Barrow, Harvey Mitchell, Peter Morris, Ralph Garber, Keith Flett
James Davidson
- Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction edited by A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham
Elaine Showalter: Up and Down the Academic Ladder
Susan Eilenberg: The Sins of Hester Thrale
- According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Anthony Grafton
- Latin, or the Empire of a Sign: From the 16th to the 20th Centuries by Françoise Waquet, translated by John Howe
Patrick Collinson
- The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s by R.W. Hoyle
Thomas Jones: Darwinians & Creationists
Michael Wood
- The Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida, translated by Pascale-Anne Brault
- A Taste for the Secret by Jacques Derrida and Maurizio Ferraris, translated by Giacomo Donis
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
- The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors by William Dean Howells et al
- Publishing the Family by June Howard
Peter Campbell: Indian photography
Philip Kitcher
- Investigations by Stuart Kauffman
August Kleinzahler. For Christopher Logue
Andrew Saint
- The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Vol. III, 1840-1950 edited by Martin Daunton
Paul Seabright in Toulouse
Bruce Robbins
- Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress edited by Samuel Huntington and Lawrence Harrison
- Culture/Metaculture by Francis Mulhern
- Culture: The Anthropologists’ Account by Adam Kuper
Contributors
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.
Lorraine Daston, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has written on the history of probability, wonders and scientific objectivity.
James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Susan Eilenberg teaches in the English department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Anthony Grafton’s many books include Joseph Scaliger and The Footnote. The latest is Leon Battista Alberti.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Philip Kitcher, a professor of philosophy at Columbia, is the author of Science, Truth and Democracy, among other books.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Jessica Olin lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Bruce Robbins, the author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, teaches English at Rutgers.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London.
Paul Seabright is a professor of economics at the University of Toulouse-1.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
David Wheatley, whose collections include Thirst, Misery Hill and Mocker, teaches at Hull.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English at Yale. Her new book is Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.