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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 12 · 19 June 2003
Edward Said: The Future of the Middle East
Roger Lancaster, Denys Trussell, Phil Edwards, Michael Dibdin, Fred Matthews, T.J. Stiles, Nicholas Jacobs, Dan Jameson, Ray Crozier, F. Crawford
Terry Eagleton: For and Against Orwell
- George Orwell by Gordon Bowker
- Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor
- Orwell: Life and Times by Scott Lucas
Jenny Diski drinks a cup of tea
- Green Gold: The Empire of Tea by Alan Macfarlane and Iris Macfarlane
Alex de Waal: The War on Aids
- Aids in the 21st Century: Disease and Globalisation by Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside
James Hamilton-Paterson on the Tasaday
- Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday by Robin Hemley
Sean Wilsey: Life on a Skateboard
John Sturrock on Iraq’s Invisible Weapons
John Upton on David Blunkett, the Lifers and the Judges
Bernard Rudden on Property and the Law
- Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England: The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply by Michael Taggart
Andrew O’Hagan on Peter Saville
Frank Kermode on Privacy
- Privacy: Concealing the 18th-Century Self by Patricia Meyer Spacks
David Simpson on ‘Vehement Passions’
- The Vehement Passions by Philip Fisher
Nina Auerbach: The Cult of Zelda
- Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline
Graham Robb on Napoleon III
- Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza by David Baguley
- The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power by Roger Price
Patrick McGuinness on Victor Hugo
- The Distance, The Shadows: Selected Poems by Victor Hugo, translated by Harry Guest
- Selected Poetry by Victor Hugo, translated by Steven Monte
- Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition edited by E.H. Blackmore and A.M. Blackmore
Benjamin Markovits on Siri Hustvedt
- What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
Thomas Jones on Ardashir Vakil
- One Day by Ardashir Vakil
Tariq Ali goes back to Pakistan
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power will be published next year.
Nina Auerbach teaches at the University of Pennsylvania; she writes frequently about ghosts, ghostly creatures and vampires.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Jenny Diski’s new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published in November. She is currently bobbing about on the South Atlantic.
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.
James Hamilton-Paterson lives in Italy. His most recent novel, Cooking with Fernet Branca is published by Faber.
Alan Jenkins is the author of The Drift and Little Black Book, among other collections.
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.
Patrick McGuinness, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, is the author of Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.
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.
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century was published in 2003.
Bernard Rudden, emeritus professor of comparative law at Oxford, is the author of The New River: A Legal History and The Law of Property.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
David Simpson teaches English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern will come out from Cambridge next year.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Matthew Sweeney’s Selected Poems came out in 2002. His most recent collection, Sanctuary, was published by Cape last autumn.
John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.
Alex de Waal is programme director at the Social Science Research Council and the author, with Julie Flint, of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War.
Sean Wilsey is an editor at McSweeney’s. His memoir, Oh the Glory of It All is out from Penguin.
