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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 6 · 20 March 2003
Edward Said: From Birmingham to Jamaica
- Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-67 by Catherine Hall
John Glenn, Kate Soper, Dick Pountain, Oliver Pretzel, Neil Mackenzie, Anatol Lieven, Charles Lindholm, John Theakstone, Robert Creamer, David Pollack, Clive James, Michel Carton, Peter Campbell
Michael Gilsenan on Being ‘Arab’
Mary Beard: No Asp for Zenobia
- Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth by Michel Chauveau, translated by David Lorton
- The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations by Maria Wyke
Robert Olby on Rosalind Franklin
- Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
Hal Foster on plans for Ground Zero
R.W. Johnson on LBJ
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Vol. III: Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
Thomas Jones: Boycotting Bristol
Art Spiegelman‘s comic continues
Joseph J. Ellis on Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan
Mark Ford on Harry Mathews
- The Human Country: New and Collected Stories by Harry Mathews
- The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays by Harry Mathews
Peter Campbell on the Academy of the Lincei
- The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg
Jonathan Lamb on 18th-century seafaring
- Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason by Glyn Williams
- Voyage to Desolation Island by Jean-Paul Kauffmann, translated by Patricia Clancy
Iain Sinclair on Margate
- All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook
Megan Vaughan: Vampires in Malawi
Contributors
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
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.
Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He teaches at University College London.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Michael Gilsenan is professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. His books include Lords of the Lebanese Marches.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Nick Laird’s second collection of poems, On Purpose, is due in August. He lives in Rome.
Jonathan Lamb teaches English at Princeton. Preserving the Self in the South Seas was published in 2001.
Robert Olby is researching a Life of Francis Crick.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances appeared last year. Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire, a documentary fiction, will come out in 2009.
Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, which ran in the LRB from March to September 2003, is out from Viking.
Megan Vaughan, a fellow of King’s College, teaches history at Cambridge. Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in 18th-Century Mauritius came out in March 2004.
