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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 21 · 31 October 2002
Adam Phillips: This is an Ex-Parrot
- Spix’s Macaw: The Race to Save the World’s Rarest Bird by Tony Juniper
Andrew Glencross, Derick Schilling, Peter Reavy, Agnes Hodgson, L.P. Glover, Sabah Salih, Peter Morgan, Edmond Wright, Tony Lacey, K.M. Kirk, R.B. Russell, Anthony Thwaite
Jeremy Harding on Moby-Dick
- Moby-Dick, or, The Whale by Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker
- Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live in by C.L.R. James
- Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival by Clare Spark
- Lucchesi and the Whale by Frank Lentricchia
Andrew O’Hagan: Scotland’s Self-Pity
Richard Rorty replies to Bernard Williams
- Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy by Bernard Williams
Lorraine Daston: Obliterate the self!
- Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England by George Levine
David Blackbourn: Germany’s Postwar Amnesties
- Adenauer’s Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration by Norbert Frei, translated by Joel Golb
Tristram Hunt: London Governments
Donald MacKenzie: Money Games
- Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science by Philip Mirowski
John Sturrock: Philosophical Quick Fixes
Thomas Jones on Donna Tartt
- The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Christopher Tayler on Richard Flanagan
- Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan
John Sutherland: New Victorian Novels
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Charles Nicholl: The Crimes of Thomas Drury
Ryan Gilbey on Ken Loach
- Sweet Sixteen directed by Ken Loach (2002)
- The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People by Jacob Leigh
Leah Price: Books as Things
- The Book History Reader edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery Buy this book
- Making Meaning: ‘Printers of the Mind’ and Other Essays by D.F. McKenzie, edited by Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez
Peter Campbell on David Wilkie
Jules Lubbock on the Invention of Painting
- Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance by Anthony Grafton
- The Discovery of Pictorial Composition: Theories of Visual Order in Painting, 1400-1800 by Thomas Puttfarken
Joanna Kavenna goes to Tromsø
Contributors
David Blackbourn, whose Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany was reviewed in the LRB by Neal Ascherson, teaches history at Harvard.
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.
Lorraine Daston, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has written on the history of probability, wonders and scientific objectivity.
Ryan Gilbey’s Don’t Worry Me, about American cinema in the 1970s, is due from Faber in March.
John Glenday works as an addictions co-ordinator in the Scottish Highlands. A selection of his poems appeared in New British Poetry.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Tristram Hunt researches Victorian civic thought at King’s College, Cambridge.
Clive James is working on the fourth volume of his unreliable memoirs.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule is published by Viking. She currently holds a writing fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge.
Jules Lubbock is a professor of art at the University of Essex.
Donald MacKenzie’s Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed will be published by Oxford. He teaches sociology at Edinburgh University.
Charles Nicholl’s most recent book is The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street.
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.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacy, written with Leo Bersani, is due in April. Penguin have just reissued his first book, about Donald Winnicott.
Leah Price teaches English at Harvard. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel.
Richard Rorty, whose books included Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Truth and Progress, was professor emeritus of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. He died in June 2007.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
