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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 13 · 10 July 2003
Anne Barton: Variations on Elizabeth I
- England’s Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy by Michael Dobson and Nicola J. Watson
Marjorie Enders, David Craig, Sarah Hutton, S. Daniel, Lorna Scott Fox, Garth Eaglesfield, Laura Spira, Roger Lancaster, Stanley Plotkin, Edward Hooper, Jan van Luxemburg, George Kramer, Marc Hudson, Rachel Foxley
James Davidson pays tribute to the Persians
- From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire by Pierre Briant, translated by Peter Daniels
- Ancient Persia from 550 BC to 650 AD: reissue by Josef Wiesehöfer, translated by Azizeh Azodi
David Runciman on the uses of referendums
Thomas Jones on mobile phones
Andy Beckett on the BBC
- Panorama: Fifty Years of Pride And Paranoia by Richard Lindley
- The Harder Path: The Autobiography by John Birt
Blair Worden: A Play for Plotters
Simon Walker on Edward IV
- Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV by Jonathan Hughes
Nicholas Penny: Manet/Velázquez
- Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting by Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre et al
Valerie Curtis on animal self-medication and Alison Jolly
- Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn from Them by Cindy Engel
Daniel Soar on Percival Everett
- Erasure by Percival Everett
Barry Schwabsky on Bridget Riley
George O’Brien on Hugo Hamilton
- The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton
John Lanchester falls out with New Labour
Contributors
Anne Barton, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is the author, most recently, of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean and a study of Byron’s Don Juan.
Andy Beckett’s Pinochet in Piccadilly is out in paperback. He is writing a book about Britain in the 1970s.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Valerie Curtis is senior lecturer in hygiene promotion at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She leads a programme on handwashing in developing countries.
James Davidson is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Alison Jolly is a biologist at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Lucy’s Legacy and Lords and Lemurs.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Lanchester is a contributing editor at the LRB. His latest book is Family Romance, a memoir.
Sarah Maguire is the only living English-language poet with a book in print in Arabic - her selected poems, Haleeb Muraq, translated by Saadi Yousef.
George O’Brien teaches English at Georgetown University in Washington DC. His memoir, The Village of Longing, was reissued in 2001.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
David Runciman’s Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell will be published by Princeton.
Barry Schwabsky is the author of The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, which ran in the LRB from March to September 2003, is out from Viking.
John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.
Simon Walker taught history at the University of Sheffield. He died in 2004.
Blair Worden is research professor in history at Royal Holloway College in London. Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England is coming out in the autumn.
