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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 15 · 8 August 2002
Hilary Mantel on The Bondwoman’s Narrative
- The Bondwoman’s Narrative: A Novel by Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates
James Booth, Tania Tamari Nasir, Theresa Heine, Joan Rockwell, Alain Ehrenberg, Rick Livingston, Marc David Baer, Peter van Sommers, C.W. Burke, Peter Hogarth, Lucy Penhaligon, M. Rudonja, David Cormack
Stephen Orgel: Shakespeare’s Poems
- The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare, edited by Colin Burrow
Rosemary Hill: Rosamund Lehmann’s Disappointments
- Rosamond Lehmann by Selina Hastings
Peter Campbell
- Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations edited by Alan Wilkinson
- The Penguin Modern Painters: A History by Carol Peaker
E.S. Turner: The Great Flap of 1940
- Dad’s Army: The Story of a Classic Television Show by Graham McCann
R.W. Johnson
- The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War by Peter Hennessy
- Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World by Percy Cradock
Lorin Stein on The Emperor of Ocean Park
- The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Daniel Soar
- Notable American Women by Ben Marcus
- Assorted Fire Events by David Means
Thomas Jones: Sedan Stories
David Midgley
- Tod eines Kritikers by Martin Walser
Polly Hope
- Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood by Carolyn Slaughter
- Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
- The Healing Land: A Kalahari Journey by Rupert Isaacson
Tom Paulin: Milton and the Regicides
- A Companion to Milton by Thomas N. Corns
- The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography by Barbara K. Lewalski
Robin Holloway
- The Classics of Music: Talks, Essays and Other Writings Previously Uncollected by Donald Francis Tovey, edited by Michael Tilmouth
Contributors
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.
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Robin Holloway, a composer and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, lectures on music at Cambridge.
Polly Hope is a television and radio researcher working in London.
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.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
J.D. McClatchy’s selected poems, Division of Spoils, will appear from Arc in September. He teaches at Yale.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
David Midgley is a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He has written on Arnold Zweig and the literature of the Weimar Republic.
Les Murray was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1999; he is published in the UK by Carcanet.
Stephen Orgel’s The Authentic Shakespeare, a collection of essays, is forthcoming from Routledge.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Lorin Stein works in publishing and lives in New York City.
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.
Tony Wood is the deputy editor of New Left Review and the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence.
