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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 22 · 15 November 2001
David Simpson: the politics of commemoration
Mary Beard, Tom Cleary, J. Glenn, Jeremy Waldron, Yitzhak Laor, Barbara Loon, Ruth Jennison, Julian Murphet, Stan Smith, Chris Connors, J.D.A. Wiseman, Jules Greavey, Robin Milner-Gulland, Gilbert Elliott, Robert Callwell, Navraj Ghaleigh, Caroline Lassalle, Siobhan Wall, David Wheatley
Michael Dobson
- The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book Vol. I: An Account of the First Folio Based on Its Sales and Prices, 1623-2000 by Anthony James West
Stephen Sedley
- Fundamental Values edited by Kim Economides et al
Ian Sansom on Jim Crace
- The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace
Jenny Turner: The Hobbit Habit
Iain Sinclair on Steve Dilworth
Sally Mapstone
- Translated Accounts by James Kelman
Jonathan Haslam
- Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan
Douglas Johnson
- La Guerre des écrivains 1940-53 by Gisèle Sapiro
- Correspondance: Marcel Arland-Jean Paulhan 1936-45 edited by Jean-Jacques Didier
- Dialogue des ‘vaincus’: Prison de Clairvaux, janvier-décembre 1950 by Lucien Rebatet and Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, edited by Robert Belot
- The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan
Eugen Weber
- Journal 1935-44 by Mihail Sebastian, translated by Patrick Camiller
E.S. Turner
- Dr Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Historic Saga of the Round-the-World Zeppelin by Douglas Botting
Contributors
Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.
Raymond Friel’s collections of poems include Seeing the River and Renfrewshire in Old Photographs.
Jonathan Haslam is the author of a biography of E.H. Carr which came out in 1999. He teaches the history of international relations at Cambridge.
Douglas Johnson is Emeritus Professor of French History at University College London and a senior member of the Franco-British Council.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Anatol Lieven reported from Moscow for the Times from 1990 to 1996 and is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. His latest book is Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World.
Sally Mapstone, president of the Scottish Text Society, is a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
Don Paterson’s Orpheus, a version of Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus, will be published later this year. His previous collections include Landing Light, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Eyes and God’s Gift to Women.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
David Simpson teaches English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern will come out from Cambridge next year.
Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances appeared last year. Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire, a documentary fiction, will come out in 2009.
Jenny Turner’s novel The Brainstorm is out now in paperback.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
Eugen Weber is the author of Action Française, Varieties of Fascism and Peasants into Frenchmen.
