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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 17 · 5 September 2002
Susan Eilenberg: The Sexual Life of Iris M.
- Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter Conradi
Stuart Hood, Elizabeth Roberts, Michael Goldman, Jenny Diski, Russell Seitz, Toby Poynder, J.F. Darycott, Stephen Holt, Judith Rascoe, Alan Myers, David Lindley, Charles Coutinho, Sanford Gabin, John O’Byrne
Thomas Laqueur on Primo Levi
- Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics by Robert Gordon
- Primo Levi by Ian Thomson
- The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a Biography by Carole Angier
Michael Wood on Dostoevsky
- Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet 1871-81 by Joseph Frank
Thomas Jones: Flirtation, Seduction and Betrayal
Christopher Harvie on Scotland’s crisis, and some solutions
Jerry Fodor: Stuck with Consciousness
- Thinking about Consciousness by David Papineau
John Lanchester on James Bond
- From Russia with Love, Dr No and Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
Alfred Appel Jr: Wa-Wa-Wa with the Duke
Hugh Pennington: Bioterrorism
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.
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.
Susan Eilenberg teaches in the English department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Jerry Fodor is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
Christopher Harvie, professor of British and Irish Studies at Tübingen University, holds honorary chairs at Strathclyde and Aberystwyth. Scotland: A Short History, published by Oxford in July, is about to go into its second edition.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Lanchester has been given this year’s E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Family Romance, is out in paperback.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Sally Mapstone, president of the Scottish Text Society, is a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
William Skidelsky is an editor at the New Statesman.
Matthew Sweeney’s most recent collection is Black Moon.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
