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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 8 · 25 April 2002
Richard Poirier: Henry James Memoirs
- A Small Boy and Others: Memoirs by Henry James
Hideki Matsuoka, Andrew Makinson, Graham Kemp, Michael Barber, Joseph Nuttgens, Stephen Sedley, Ellis Corbett, Mike Sanders, Bill Patterson, Peter Green, Paul Pfalzner, Evan Whitton, Richard Smyth, Margaret Philip, Eric Rauth, Stephen Holt, Caroline Selai
Thomas Jones on Francis Spufford
Frank Kermode on Rohinton Mistry
- Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Terry Eagleton exhumes I.A. Richards
- I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-38 edited by John Constable
Peter Campbell: How Rainbows Work
- The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth and Science by Raymond Lee and Alistair Fraser
Rita Giacaman: Under Curfew
Steven Shapin: The Original Dr Strangelove
- Memoirs: A 20th-Century Journey in Science and Politics by Edward Teller and Judith Shoolery
John Sturrock: The Evil List
Patrick Collinson
- The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy
Bernard Porter: Rudyard Bloody Kipling
- The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
R.W. Johnson goes to ground in Zimbabwe
Richard Gott on the Oxford History of the British Empire
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. I: The Origins of Empire edited by William Roger Louis and Nicholas Canny
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. II: The 18th Century edited by William Roger Louis and P.J. Marshall
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. III: The 19th Century edited by William Roger Louis and Andrew Porter
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. IV: The 20th Century edited by William Roger Louis and Judith Brown
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. V: Historiography edited by William Roger Louis and Robin Winks
David Craig: Mountain Art
Maria Margaronis on Sotiris Dimitriou
- May Your Name Be Blessed by Sotiris Dimitriou, translated by Leo Marshall
Jenny Diski: The Trouble with Sonia Orwell
- The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling
David Reynolds on the Real Mrs Miniver
- The Real Mrs Miniver by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
- Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther
John Lanchester on Intellectual Property
Contributors
Jonathan Aaron teaches writing and literature at Emerson College in Boston.
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.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Rita Giacaman is director of the Department of International Community Health at Birzeit University.
Richard Gott has written several books about Latin America, including Cuba: A New World.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
John Lanchester has been given this year’s E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Family Romance, is out in paperback.
Derek Mahon’s Collected Poems were published by the Gallery Press in 1999. A Selected Poems came out from Penguin last year.
Maria Margaronis is London correspondent for the Nation.
Richard Poirier, founding editor of Raritan, is chairman of the board of the Library of America.
Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.
David Reynolds’s From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt’s America and the Origins of the Second World War came out in 2001. He is a fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
