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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 23 · 29 November 2001
Nicholas Penny defends Anthony Blunt
Colm Tóibín, Geoffrey O’Brien, Denis McQuail, Richard Taruskin, Mark Rose, Anura Fernando, Lesley Chamberlain, Paul Winstanley, Samuel Wong, Frank Dux, Julie Beddoes, Adam Elgar, Joseph Forte, Andrew Rawlinson, Bernard Wasserstein, Chris Miller, Charmian Cannon, Paul Denman, Bill Sanderson, Richard Davies, Anthony Rudolf
P.N. Furbank
- Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall by Paul Bailey
Conor Gearty: Blunkett’s Folly
- Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention by A.W.B. Simpson
Hal Foster on Rem Koolhaas
- Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping by Rem Koolhaas et al
- Great Leap Forward by Rem Koolhaas et al
Gillian Darley
- In Ruins by Christopher Woodward
Thomas Jones: friendsreunited.com
Hugh Pennington on the history of anthrax
Miles Taylor
- The Chartist Movement in Britain 1838-50 edited by Gregory Claeys
Peter Campbell on Pisanello
Catherine Merridale
- Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia 1804-24 by Aleksandr Nikitenko, translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson
Christopher Tayler
- Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah
Cristina Nehring
- Blue Angel by Francine Prose
Kathleen Jamie: Whale Watching
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Gillian Darley’s Villages of Vision is published in a revised edition this month.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
P.N. Furbank is general editor, with W.R. Owens, of The Works of Daniel Defoe. His other books include Unholy Pleasure, E.M. Forster: A Life and Behalf.
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.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Robert Macfarlane teaches at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination won the Guardian First Book Award.
Catherine Merridale, a lecturer in history at Bristol University, is the author of Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia.
Cristina Nehring teaches at Paris-XIII. She is writing a book about love in the Western world.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Miles Taylor teaches history at the University of York. His life of the Chartist Ernest Jones came out last year.
Helen Vendler has written books on Yeats, Herbert, Keats, Stevens and Heaney. The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets appeared in 1997.