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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 4 · 20 February 2003
Maurice Keen: From Venice to Visa
- Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe by Peter Spufford
Anne Summers, Patrick Skelton, Nick Cohen, Paul Seabright, Caryll Faraldi, Hayden Murphy, Ian Wall, Arif Azad, Andrew Sheppard, Jean Elliott
Ruth Padel: ‘The Excavation’, ‘The Watchers’
Conor Gearty on the folly of the impending war
Michael Byers: No Way to Fight a War
David Ramsbotham: Unfair to the Army
James Wood: Pushkin’s Leave-Taking
- Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
Benjamin Markovits: Kundera’s Nostalgia
- Ignorance by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher
Terry Eagleton: Lukács recants
- A Defence of ‘History and Class Consciousness’: Tailism and the Dialectic by Georg Lukács, translated by Esther Leslie
Colm Tóibín: What about George Yeats?
- Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W.B. Yeats by Ann Saddlemyer
Thomas Jones: Dodgy Latin
Peter Campbell: British Art and the French Romantics
E.S. Turner: Combustible Belloc
- Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc by Joseph Pearce
Ian Sansom galoots with Betjeman
- John Betjeman: New Fame, New Love by Bevis Hillier
John Bossy decodes ‘The Ambassadors’
- The Ambassadors’ Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance by John North
Jeremy Harding: Britain in Bosnia
- Indictment at The Hague: The Milosevic Regime and the Crimes of the Balkan Wars by Norman Cigar and Paul Williams
- Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia by Brendan Simms
- Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo by Fred Abrahams
- Milosevic: A Biography by Adam LeBor
Yitzhak Laor: Lament for the Israeli Left
Andrew O’Hagan smiles for the President
Contributors
John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at the LSE, has written a number of books on terrorism and human rights.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Maurice Keen is an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He has written a number of books on medieval subjects, including Chivalry and Origins of the English Gentleman.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
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, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Ruth Padel’s The Poem and the Journey is out from Chatto.
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.
David Ramsbotham, who retired from the Army in 1993, was Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons from 1995 to 2001. He served as an adjutant general in the first Gulf War.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
