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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 1 · 3 January 2002
Barbara Taylor: Heroine Chic
- Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage by Elaine Showalter
Geoffrey Bucknell, Sameera Hartsough, Lynsay Gott, Rod Edmond, Editor, ‘London Review’, David Craig, Paul Seabright, Elise Godsell, Jeremy Newmark, Howard Cooper, Thomas Laqueur, Roger Stuveras, A.W.B. Simpson, John Owen, Brian Bosworth, Liz Willis, J.F. Darycott, Jerome Shipman, Michael Dobson, Andrew Ross
Wendy Doniger
- The Mirror: A History by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet, translated by Katharine Jewett
Edward Said: Israel’s Dead End
James Wood: Italo Svevo’s Last Cigarette
- Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, edited by William Weaver
- Memoir of Italo Svevo by Livia Veneziani Svevo, translated by Isabel Quigly
- Emilio's Carnival by Italo Svevo, translated by Beth Archer Brombert
James Francken: The big book prizes
Daniel Soar
- Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett, edited by Kirby McCauley and Martin Greenberg et al
- Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921-60 edited by Richard Layman and Julie Rivett
Thomas Jones
- Sister Crazy by Emma Richler
India Knight
- The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary Lovell Buy this book
- Nancy Mitford: A Memoir by Harold Acton
Adam Kuper
- Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post by J.D.F. Jones
Patrick McGuinness
- Electric Light by Seamus Heaney
- Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Karl Miller by Karl Miller
Ian Glynn
- The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Ageing by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes
R.T. Murphy
- The Making of Modern Japan by Marius Jansen
Contributors
Jonathan Aaron teaches writing and literature at Emerson College in Boston.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of, among other books, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India and The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Ian Glynn, emeritus professor of physiology at Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College, is the author of An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind.
Stephen Greenblatt’s most recent book is Hamlet in Purgatory. He is working on a biographical study of Shakespeare.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
India Knight writes a column for the Sunday Times. Her second novel will be published in May.
Adam Kuper, whose most recent book is The Reinvention of Primitive Society, is a professor of anthropology at Brunel University.
James Lasdun’s novel, The Horned Man, appeared in 2002. His most recent book of poetry is Landscape with Chainsaw.
Patrick McGuinness, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, is the author of Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
R.T. Murphy teaches political economy at Tsukuba University. He is the author of The Weight of the Yen and, with Mikuni Akio, of the forthcoming Japan’s Policy Trap.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances appeared last year. Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire, a documentary fiction, will come out in 2009.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Barbara Taylor teaches history at the University of East London. Women, Gender and Enlightenment (edited with Sarah Knott) will appear in paperback in May.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
