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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 11 · 6 June 2002
Terry Eagleton: Faking It
- The Forger’s Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature by Nick Groom
Christopher Lord, Paul Seabright, Jeremy Harding, Tim Andrews, Lisa Taraki, Yoshida Masayuki, Chang-rae Park, Peter Regent, Giancarlo de Vivo, David Miller, Pete Hutton, David Mason, W.S. Milne, Tony Sharpe, Graham Kemp, Rick Osborn, Paul Stephens, Danny Karlin, Michael Ruse
David Runciman: After the Nation State
- The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt
- Reordering the World: The Long-Term Implications of 11 September edited by Mark Leonard
John Mullan: Sterne’s Foibles
Ian Gilmour: Lady Thatcher’s Latest
- Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the 20th Century by E.H.H. Green
- Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World by Margaret Thatcher
Michael Kammen
- Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Colm Tóibín: The Discretion of Jackie Kennedy
- Janet & Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Jan Pottker
- Mrs Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years by Barbara Leaming
Thomas Jones: A Quick Bout of Bardiness
Alex Clark
- The Hunters: Two Short Novels by Claire Messud
David Goldie
- New Selected Letters by Hugh MacDiarmid, edited by Dorian Grieve
Dror Wahrman
- The Perreaus and Mrs Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in 18th-Century London by Donna Andrew and Randall McGowen
- The Smart: The True Story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the Unfortunate Perreau Brothers by Sarah Bakewell
Francis Spufford goes supersonic
Helen Cooper
- Parzival and the Stone from Heaven: A Grail Romance Retold for Our Time by Lindsay Clarke
- Merlin and the Grail: ‘Joseph of Arimathea’, ‘Merlin’, ‘Perceval’ The Trilogy of Arthurian Romances Attributed to Robert de Boron translated by Nigel Bryant
- Le Livre du Graal. Tome I: ‘Joseph D’Arimathie’, ‘Merlin’, ‘Les Premiers Faits du Roi Arthur’ edited by Daniel Poirion and Philippe Walter
Peter Campbell: Tourist Trouble
Jonathan Lethem: My Spidey
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Alex Clark is a freelance journalist who lives in London.
Helen Cooper is a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge and the author of The English Romance in Time.
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.
Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died on 21 September 2007.
David Goldie, who teaches in the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde, is an editor of Beyond Scotland: Scottish Literature in the 20th Century, due later this year.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Michael Kammen teaches at Cornell. American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century came out in 2000.
Jonathan Lethem’s novels include Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude.
Edwin Morgan’s most recent book is Tales from Baron Munchausen (Mariscat). The Play of Gilgamesh is due from Carcanet this year.
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.
David Runciman’s new book is Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
Francis Spufford’s The Child that Books Built is out from Faber. He is working on a book about technology in Britain since the 1970s.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
Dror Wahrman teaches in Bloomington at Indiana University. The Making of the Modern Self is forthcoming from Yale.
