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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 3 · 6 February 2003
Michael Wood on Thomas Mann
- The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann edited by Ritchie Robertson
- Thomas Mann: A Biography by Hermann Kurzke, translated by Leslie Willson
Nick Davis, Graham Kemp, Martin Blyth, Anthony Buckley, Frank Kermode, Peter Robb, Frank Dux, W.S. Milne, Margery Rowe, John Harding, Emer O’Sullivan
Chalmers Johnson: The Addiction to Secrecy
- Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg
Theo Tait on Richard Yates
- Collected Stories by Richard Yates
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Hilary Mantel concludes her memoir
Robert Brenner: The Continuing Collapse of the US Economy
James Meek on keeping cool
- Cool Comfort: America’s Romance with Air-Conditioning by M. Ackerman
Jenny Diski on not going to the movies
- The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
- Nobody’s Perfect: Writings from the ‘New Yorker’ by Anthony Lane
- Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film by Peter Wollen
Frank Kermode: Wordsworth at Sea
- The Wreck of the 'Abergavenny' by Alethea Hayter
Andrew Saint on the rebuilding of France
Seamus Perry: Byron v. Shelley
- The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time by Ian Gilmour
- Byron and Romanticism by Jerome McGann
Adrian Woolfson on the evolution of evolvability
- A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
Andrew Berry on W.D. Hamilton
- Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W.D. Hamilton. Vol. II: The Evolution of Sex by W.D. Hamilton
Nicholas Penny goes to the races
Contributors
Andrew Berry teaches evolutionary biology at Harvard.
Robert Brenner is the director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, and the author of The Boom and the Bubble, published last year.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
Michael Fried’s books of poems include To the Centre of the Earth. He is the Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Chalmers Johnson was a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the CIA from 1967 to 1972. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, is out this month.
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.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
James Meek’s novel We Are Now Beginning Our Descent was published in February. The People’s Act of Love won the Ondaatje Prize.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Seamus Perry is a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His selection from Coleridge’s notebooks came out in paperback from Oxford in 2003, and his study of Tennyson appeared in 2004.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Jean Sprackland’s third collection, Tilt, won this year’s Costa Award for Poetry.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Adrian Woolfson is the author of the The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics and Life without Genes: The History and Future of Genomes. He teaches medicine at Clare College, Cambridge.
