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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 9 · 9 May 2002
Michael Wood on Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman
- The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War by Jean Franco
Fedele Confalonieri, Michael Cruickshank, Tobias Jones, Eva Goldsworthy, David Craig, Marguerite Helmers, Stuart Hood, Anthony Buckley, Ian Gilmour, Richard Hughes, Paul Pritchard, Nancy Griffin, N.S. Roseman, Joe Higham, Kamal Ahmed, Paul Turnbull, Andrew Sheppard, Ian Moore, David Cutler
Jon Beasley-Murray in Caracas
Alfred Appel Jr: Homage to Fats Waller
Nicholas Penny: Peggy Guggenheim’s Eye
- Peggy Guggenheim: The Life of an Art Addict by Anton Gill
Hal Foster on Reyner Banham
- Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future by Nigel Whiteley
Jonathan Rée: Automata
- Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen by Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak
- The Secret Life of Puppets by Victoria Nelson
- Living Dolls: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood
Yitzhak Laor: Israel’s Imago
David A. Bell: Bloodletting in Paris
- Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris 1789-1945 by Richard D.E. Burton
Donald MacKenzie: The Science Wars Revisited
- The One Culture? A Conversation about Science edited by Jay Labinger and Harry Collins
Jerry Coyne: Darwinian Christians
- Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? The Relationship between Science and Religion by Michael Ruse
Peter Campbell: Hamish Fulton
John Upton on George Carman
- No Ordinary Man: A Life of George Carman by Dominic Carman
E.S. Turner stands and delivers
- Outlaws and Highwaymen: The Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the 19th century by Gillian Spraggs
Dan Jacobson on Leonid Tsypkin
- Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin, translated by Roger Keys and Angela Keys
Jenny Turner on Stewart Home
- 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess by Stewart Home
Jeremy Harding on the French Presidential Elections
Contributors
Alfred Appel Jr’s Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce is published by Knopf. He is a professor emeritus of English at Northwestern University and editor of The Annotated Lolita.
Jon Beasley-Murray is co-director of Manchester University’s Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies.
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jerry Coyne, who teaches at the University of Chicago, is writing a book on the origin of species.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
Donald MacKenzie’s Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed will be published by Oxford. He teaches sociology at Edinburgh University.
Bill Manhire, who teaches at Victoria University, Wellington, is the editor of The Wide White Page, an anthology of poetry and fiction (from Dante to Michael Chabon) about Antarctica. His Collected Poems came out in 2001.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Jonathan Rée is a member of the philosopher’s group of the British Humanist Association. He co-edited The Kierkegaard Reader.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
Jenny Turner’s novel, The Brainstorm, is published by Cape.
John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
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.
