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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 12 · 27 June 2002
David Blackbourn
- Im Krebsgang: Eine Novelle by Günter Grass
Christopher Prendergast, Nick Groom, Anne Carson, Hugh Turner, Graham Brown, John Sullivan, D. Duggan, Mike Taylor, John Bayley, Gennady Gorelik, Gillian Fisher, Constance Blackwell, John Birtwhistle, Des Cranston, Frank Phillips, W.S. Milne, Mary Ann Harrell, Philip Stine, Editor, ‘London Review’, Henry Cohen, C.N. Campbell, George Haycock, Elaine Jordan, Liz Young, Alasdair Sinclair
Barbara Everett: Ashbery, Larkin and Eliot
James Wood: The ‘TLS’
- Critical Times: The History of the ‘Times Literary Supplement’ by Derwent May
Iain Sinclair explores the Lea Valley
Eric Foner
- The Strange Death of American Liberalism by H.W. Brands
Colin Burrow looks into Chapman’s Homer
- Chapman’s Homer: The ‘Iliad’ edited by Allardyce Nicoll Buy this book
- Chapman’s Homer: The ‘Odyssey’ edited by Allardyce Nicoll Buy this book
P.N. Furbank
- Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d’Orcia by Caroline Moorehead
Gilberto Perez: Kiarostami et Compagnie
- Close-Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and Future by Hamid Dabashi
Dinah Birch: Anita Brookner
- The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner
Peter Campbell: Great Nations of Europe Coming Through
- Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834 by Anthony Farrington
William Doyle
- The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism 1680-1800 by David A. Bell
Julian Jackson
- Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire. Volume I: The State by Pierre Nora, translated by Mary Trouille
Alex Oliver
- The Warden of English: The Life of H.W. Fowler by Jenny McMorris
Andrew O’Hagan deserts the Tartan Army
Contributors
Dinah Birch is the author of Our Victorian Education. She teaches at Liverpool University and is the general editor of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
David Blackbourn, whose Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany was reviewed in the LRB by Neal Ascherson, teaches history at Harvard.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
William Doyle is the author of The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, among other books. He teaches at the University of Bristol.
Barbara Everett’s books include Young Hamlet and Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin.
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Our Lincoln, an edited volume, will be published in the autumn.
P.N. Furbank is general editor, with W.R. Owens, of The Works of Daniel Defoe. His other books include Unholy Pleasure, E.M. Forster: A Life and Behalf.
Lavinia Greenlaw’s novel Mary George of Allnorthover is available in paperback.
Julian Jackson is professor of French at the University of Wales, Swansea. His latest book is France: The Dark Years 1940-44.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Michael Longley’s Snow Water is out from Cape.
Patrick McGuinness, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, is the author of Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Alex Oliver is a fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge.
Gilberto Perez teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York and is the author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium.
Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances appeared last year. Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire, a documentary fiction, will come out in 2009.
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.
