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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 1 · 2 January 2003
Alan Bennett: Why I turned down ‘Big Brother’
Bruce Clunies Ross, Richard Davies, Jeremy Hawthorn, R.B. Russell, Rex Winsbury, Joanna Griffiths, Alex Smith, Michael Fry
Hilary Mantel: My Life as a Boy
Stephen Sedley: On Trying War Crimes
Ian Jack reviews the Fleet
- Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-45 by Christopher McKee
- Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy by Peter Padfield
Mary-Kay Wilmers remembers D.A.N. Jones
Barbara Everett: Shakespeare’s Most Peculiar Play
Kathleen Jamie: ‘The Tree House’, ‘Moult’
Christopher de Bellaigue in the Rose Garden of the Martyrs
Andrew O’Hagan: Lulu & Co
- I Don't Want to Fight by Lulu
- Billy by Pamela Stephenson
- Just for the Record by Geri Halliwell
- Learning to Fly by Victoria Beckham
- Right from the Start by Gareth Gates
- Honest by Ulrika Jonsson
Jeremy Harding: Syd Barrett
- Madcap: The Half-Life of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s Lost Genius by Tim Willis
Dan Jacobson: Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiw!
- Way Up Way Out by Harold Strachan
Benjamin Markovits: ‘Shroud’
Alison Jolly: Among Lemurs
Contributors
Christopher de Bellaigue is the Economist’s reporter in Tehran. He is writing a book about Iran for HarperCollins.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Barbara Everett’s books include Young Hamlet and Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin.
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.
Ian Jack is the editor of Granta.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
Alison Jolly is a biologist at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Lucy’s Legacy and Lords and Lemurs.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.
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.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Stephen Sedley is a Lord Justice of Appeal for England and Wales and a contributor of legal biographies to the DNB.
Mary-Kay Wilmers is the editor of the London Review of Books.
