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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 18 · 19 September 2002
Dinah Birch: A Victorian Naturalist
- Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse 1810-88 by Ann Thwaite
Diego Gambetta, Ian Thomson, David Walker, Peter Conradi, Kate Hutchinson, Henry Tattersall, Martin Watts, Alison Macleod, Sabah Salih, Wolfgang Eisermann, Mark Valentine, John Bayley, Canon John Giles, Michael Goldman, Simon Renouf, Pauline Asher
Terry Eagleton: T.S. Eliot’s Politics
- The ‘Criterion’: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Interwar Britain by Jason Harding
Ross McKibbin on Stafford Cripps
- The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps by Peter Clarke
Jeremy Waldron on Equality of Opportunity
- Against Equality of Opportunity by Matt Cavanagh
John Sturrock on the Rosetta Stone
- Keys of Egypt by Lesley Atkins and Roy Atkins
- The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics by Robert Solé and Dominique Valbelle, translated by Steven Rendall
- Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson
- The Man who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris by Andrew Robinson
Mary Beard on Gwen Raverat
Patrick Collinson: London Burnings
- The Antichrist’s Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England by Peter Lake and Michael Questier
Stephen Sedley on Human Rights and the Courts
- Sceptical Essays on Human Rights edited by Tom Campbell and K.D. Ewing
John Kerrigan on Valentine Cunningham
- Reading after Theory by Valentine Cunningham
Peter Campbell in Chelsea
Peter Lagerquist: Private Defence
James Wolcott on Rick Moody
- The Black Veil by Rick Moody
Sean Wilsey: With Cantor Fitzgerald
James Francken on Giles Foden’s Zanzibar
Contributors
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
Dinah Birch’s new book, Our Victorian Education, will be published later this year.
Jason Burke is on the staff of the Observer.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University.
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.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Kerrigan is a professor of English at Cambridge. Archipelagic English: Literature, History and Politics 1603-1707 is due this month.
John Kinsella’s most recent book of poems is The New Arcadia.
Peter Lagerquist is a journalist who lives in Jerusalem.
Ross McKibbin, a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, is the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Stephen Sedley is a Lord Justice of Appeal for England and Wales and a contributor of legal biographies to the DNB.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University Law School, is the author of Law and Disagreement and God, Locke and Equality.
Sean Wilsey is an editor at McSweeney’s. His memoir, Oh the Glory of It All is out from Penguin.
James Wolcott is a columnist for Vanity Fair. His novel, The Catsitters, is out in paperback.
