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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 3 · 7 February 2002
Michael Hofmann praises James Schuyler
- Last Poems by James Schuyler
- Alfred and Guinevere by James Schuyler
Geoffrey Gershenson, Mark Elf, Gabrielle Parker, Alan MacKichan, Trevor Denning, Adam Czerniawski, G. Colin Jimack, Ian Southern, T. Chertsey, Michael Hampton, Patrick Hughes, Frank St George, I. Brooker, Stuart Hood, Nicholas Jacobs
Tariq Ali: A Secular History of Islam
Peter Campbell on David Sylvester
Bruce Ackerman: States of Emergency
Ronald Stevens
- A Press Free and Responsible: Self-Regulation and the Press Complaints Commission 1991-2001 by Richard Shannon
Paul Myerscough: Iris Murdoch
John Foot
- Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli, translated by Alastair McEwen
Blair Worden: Cromwell’s Bad Idea
- Cromwell’s Major-Generals: Godly Government during the English Revolution by Christopher Durston
W.G. Runciman: The Biology of Belief
- Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors by Pascal Boyer
Terence Hawkes: Eagleton’s Rise
Rebecca Mead
- True Tales of American Life by Paul Auster
Thomas Jones
- Rumours of a Hurricane by Tim Lott
David Coward
- Complete Tales in Verse by Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Guido Waldman
- The Fables of La Fontaine: Wisdom Brought down to Earth by Andrew Calder
- The Craft of La Fontaine by Maya Slater
Contributors
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author, most recently, of Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism.
Tariq Ali’s The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power will be published next year.
Dinah Birch’s new book, Our Victorian Education, will be published later this year.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.
David Coward is emeritus professor of French at the University of Leeds. His translation of Hedi Kaddour’s Waltenberg will be published next spring.
John Foot teaches at University College London. His books include Milan since the Miracle: City, Culture and Identity and Calcio: A History of Italian Football.
Terence Hawkes is an emeritus professor of English at Cardiff University and general editor of the Accents on Shakespeare series. Shakespeare in the Present is due this year.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
Mick Imlah’s collection The Lost Leader will be published in 2002.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Kanan Makiyas books include Republic of Fear (published under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil) and Cruelty and Silence. He was born in Baghdad.
Rebecca Mead is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Paul Myerscough is an editor at the London Review.
W.G. Runciman is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a former president of the General Council of British Shipping.
Ronald Stevens was an industrial correspondent on the Daily Telegraph in the 1960s and, until 2002, managing editor of the British Journalism Review.
Chris Wilmers is a graduate student at Berkeley.
Blair Worden is research professor in history at Royal Holloway College in London. Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England is coming out in the autumn.