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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 9 · 8 May 2003
David Runciman: Blair’s Masochism
Paul Osterrieth, Hilary Koprowski, Stanley Plotkin, Vivian Wyatt, Jonathan Bland, Edward Pearce, David Edgerton, Chris Baldick, Evan Riley, Michael Fried, Jeremy Bernstein, Robert Olby, Richard Wrigley, Patricia Miller, Martin Harries
Danny Karlin: Melville goes under
- Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. II: 1851-91 by Hershel Parker
John Mullan on Umberto Eco
- Baudolino by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
Peter Campbell on London’s new art gallery
Anatol Lieven on the consequences of the new imperialism
Thomas Jones on Thomas Pynchon
Charles Glass: After the Invasion
Yitzhak Laor on Israel’s War
Lorraine Daston on Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin: Vol. II: The Power of Place by Janet Browne
P.N. Furbank on Jocelyn Brooke
- 'The Military Orchid' and Other Novels by Jocelyn Brooke
John Sturrock on Raymond Queneau
- Oeuvres complètes: Tome II: Romans I by Raymond Queneau, edited by Henri Godard
Matthew Reynolds on Ciaran Carson’s Dante
- The ‘Inferno’ of Dante Alighieri a new translation by Ciaran Carson
Laura Quinney: Allusion v. Influence
- Allusion to the Poets by Christopher Ricks
Hal Foster on ‘Lingua Franca’
- Quick Studies: The Best of ‘Lingua Franca’ edited by Alexander Star
James Francken on Janet Davey
- English Correspondence by Janet Davey
Eve Blake returns to Friern Hospital
Contributors
Eve Blake lives in London.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Harry Clifton’s most recent book of poems is God in France: A Paris Sequence 1994-98.
Lorraine Daston, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has written on the history of probability, wonders and scientific objectivity.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
P.N. Furbank is general editor, with W.R. Owens, of The Works of Daniel Defoe. His other books include Unholy Pleasure, E.M. Forster: A Life and Behalf.
Charles Glass has recently published two books on the Middle East, The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in France during the German occupation.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Danny Karlin, who teaches English at University College London, is the author of Browning’s Hatreds.
Stephen Knight is the author of two collections of poems, Flowering Limbs and Dream City Cinema, and of Mr Schnitzel, a novel.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
Anatol Lieven reported from Moscow for the Times from 1990 to 1996 and is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. His latest book is Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World.
John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.
Laura Quinney is the author of Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth and The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. She teaches at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Matthew Reynolds’s last book was The Realms of Verse; he is now reading a lot of literary translations.
David Runciman’s new book is Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, which ran in the LRB from March to September 2003, is out from Viking.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
