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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 23 · 28 November 2002
Ross McKibbin: The Great Secondary School Disaster
Göran Nilsson, Jeffrey Frankland, Andrew Stilwell, William Gavin, Duncan Forbes, Gerald Moore, D.M. Roskies, Derick Schilling, Barbara Lewalski, Nick Matthews, Hywel Griffiths, P.N. Furbank, Judith Willson, Robin Thompson
Thomas Jones goes back to school
Joseph Frank: Great Russians
- Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
George O’Brien: The Sniper
Brendan Simms: Wrotizla, Breslau, Wroclaw
- Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse
Neal Ascherson: Berlin 1945
- Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor
Michael Hofmann on Hjalmar Söderberg
- Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg, translated by Paul Britten Austin
- The Serious Game by Hjalmar Söderberg, translated by Eva Claeson
Ruth Bernard Yeazell on A.S. Byatt
- A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt
Iqbal Ahmed: Oh to be in England
Frank Kermode: Angry Young Men
- The Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s by Humphrey Carpenter
Paul Laity: Are the English human?
- Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000 by Richard Weight
- Pariah: Misfortunes of the British Kingdom by Tom Nairn
- Identity of England by Robert Colls
- Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
Peter Campbell on Gainsborough
David Reynolds: The ‘Lusitania’ Effect
- Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the ‘Lusitania’ by Diana Preston
- Lusitania: Saga and Myth by David Ramsay
- Woodrow Wilson by John Thompson
Martin Jay: Where are you coming from?
- Situatedness; Or, Why We Keep Saying Where We’re Coming From by David Simpson
Stephen O’Shea: Should Turkey be worried?
Carl Elliott: The Ethics of Bioethics
Contributors
Iqbal Ahmed has lived in London since 1993.
Neal Ascherson’s books include The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea. He is an honorary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Carl Elliott is a visiting associate professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, and the author of Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream.
Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Stanford. The fifth and final volume of his Life of Dostoevsky was published in 2002.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
Martin Jay is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent work is Refractions of Violence.
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.
Paul Laity edited the Left Book Club Anthology. Formerly an editor at the London Review, he now works at the Guardian.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.
George O’Brien teaches English at Georgetown University in Washington DC. His memoir, The Village of Longing, was reissued in 2001.
Stephen O’Shea’s The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars was published in 2000; he is writing a study of Muslim-Christian clashes in the Middle Ages.
Carl Rakosi began publishing poetry in the early 1920s. He died in June 2004.
David Reynolds’s From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt’s America and the Origins of the Second World War came out in 2001. He is a fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge.
Brendan Simms, a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, is the author of The Impact of Napoleon and, with Alexander Nicoll, of Bosnia.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English at Yale. Her new book is Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.
