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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 16 · 22 August 2002
James Hamilton-Paterson: The Martian Enterprise
- Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World by Oliver Morton
Richard Eyre, Hilary Mantel, Andy Beckett, Bruce Kent, Paul Vaughan, Tom Kuhn, Keith Flett, David Miller, Aidan Hartley, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen & Philippe Pignarre, Robin Holloway
Hal Foster: Handmade Readymades
- Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art by Michael Lobel
Andrew O’Hagan: Homage to Laurel and Hardy
- Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy by Simon Louvish
Colin Burrow: My Favourite Elizabethan
- Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift by Jason Scott-Warren
Jacqueline Rose: Sylvia Plath
Peter Campbell on Thomas Girtin
Stephen Mulhall: Morality by Numbers
- The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life by Jeff McMahan
Thomas Jones: Second Novel Anxiety Syndrome
Richard Fortey
- Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’ by James Secord
Steven Shapin: Big Food
- Eating Right in the Renaissance by Ken Albala
- Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle
Paul Seabright
- The Future of Success by Robert Reich
Christina Gombar
- Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
Frank Kermode is baffled by Alan Warner
- The Man Who Walks by Alan Warner
Christopher Tayler
- The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
Tariq Ali watches al-Jazeera
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power will be published next year.
John Ashbery’s last collection was Where Shall I Wander; the next will be A Worldly Country.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Colin Burrow, a senior research fellow at All Souls, Oxford, edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare and introduced Troilus and Cressida for Penguin.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Richard Fortey is a research scientist at the Natural History Museum and visiting professor of palaeobiology at Oxford. The Earth: An Intimate History was shortlisted for the Aventis science writing prize 2005.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Christina Gombar has worked for several Fortune 100 financial companies, some of which are no longer in business. She is writing a novel set on Wall Street.
James Hamilton-Paterson lives in Italy. His most recent novel, Cooking with Fernet Branca is published by Faber.
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.
Stephen Mulhall is a fellow of New College, Oxford. His books include Philosophical Myths of the Fall and Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Jacqueline Rose teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. Her books include On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World and, most recently, The Question of Zion.
Paul Seabright is a professor of economics at the University of Toulouse-1.
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.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Tom Vanderbilt is the author of Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America. He lives in Brooklyn.
