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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 20 · 17 October 2002
M.F. Burnyeat: On Anger
- Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity by William Harris
David Bishop, Edward Tabor, Jonathan Sinclair-Wilson, S.A. Skinner, Chris Purnell, Christopher Harvie, Bruce Kent, Nicholas Joicey, Graham Hamilton, Keith Flett, James Gollata
Bernard Williams: On Truth
Perry Anderson: Hobsbawm’s Histories
Rebecca Mead: Alice Sebold
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Hermione Lee: Eliza and Clara
- The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch by Anne Enright
- Clara by Janice Galloway
John Lanchester: Football and Currie
Frank Kermode: Amis’s Terrible News
- Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis
Edward Said: Palestine, Iraq and ‘Us’
Peter Campbell: Daniel Libeskind
Norman Dombey: Saddam’s Nuclear Incapability
- Saddam’s Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man who Built Iraq’s Secret Weapon by Khidhir Hamza and Jeff Stein
Andrew Saint: George Gilbert Scott Jr
- An Architect of Promise: George Gilbert Scott Jr (1839-97) and the Late Gothic Revival by Gavin Stamp
P.N. Furbank: Denton Welch
- Denton Welch: Writer and Artist by James Methuen-Campbell
Chris McManus: Reckoning the Odds
- Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty by Gerd Gigerenzer
Murray Sayle: The Makiko and Junichiro Show
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
M.F. Burnyeat has returned to Robinson College, Cambridge after ten years as senior research fellow in philosophy at All Souls. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato, among other books.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Norman Dombey is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
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.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
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.
Hermione Lee is the Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at Oxford. Her books include biographies of Virginia Woolf and, most recently, Edith Wharton.
Chris McManus, Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at University College London, is the author of Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures.
Rebecca Mead is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London.
Murray Sayle is a veteran foreign correspondent who has been living in Japan.
Bernard Williams died in June 2003. Thomas Nagel wrote about his posthumously published essays in the LRB of 11 May 2006.
