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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 24 · 13 December 2001
Andrew O’Hagan: American Beauties
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- Ghost World directed by Terry Zwigoff (2001)
- Storytelling directed by Todd Solondz (2001)
Jon Snow, Ian Birchall, Richard Cummings, Paul Hillier, H. Sivyer, David Simpson, Mark Andrews, John Roberts, Trevor Kerslake, Jonathan Williams, Richard Maxwell, Roderick A. Jacobs, Gillian Darley
Zachary Leader
- John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
Michael Wood: Apocalypse Regained
- Apocalypse Now Redux directed by Francis Ford Coppola (re-release, 2001)
- Marlon Brando by Patricia Bosworth
James Wolcott
- The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan edited by John Lahr
John Mullan: The Laziness of Thomas Gray
- Thomas Gray: A Life by Robert Mack
Edward Said: Elegy for Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
Thomas Jones: Ulysses vs. Ulysses
Julian Bell
- Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney
Diana Souhami
- Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier edited by Marilyn McCully, translated by Christine Baker
Benjamin Markovits
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
John Sutherland
- Red Dog by Louis de Bernières
- Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World by Louis de Bernières
Gabriele Annan
- No Saints or Angels by Ivan Klíma, translated by Gerald Turner
Ruth Franklin
- Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich by Gordon A. Craig
Stefan Collini
- The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose
Peter Campbell at the V&A
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.
Julian Bell is the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which came out last month.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jon Cannon is writing a book about English cathedrals. He lives in Wiltshire.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics.
Ruth Franklin is associate literary editor at the New Republic.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Zachary Leader has edited The Letters of Kingsley Amis, and plays tennis with Martin.
Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.
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.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Christopher Prendergast is a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and was the general editor of the Penguin Proust.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Diana Souhami is the author of Gluck, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall and Selkirk’s Island.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
James Wolcott is a columnist for Vanity Fair. His novel, The Catsitters, is out in paperback.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
