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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 14 · 24 July 2003
Charles Glass reports from Damascus
Patrick Wright, Patrick Collinson, Andrew Shankman, Joe Winter, Paul Simon
Richard Wollheim: Nicolas De Staël
- Nicolas de Staël by Jean-Paul Ameline et al
Anne Hollander: Eadweard Muybridge
Hal Foster on William Gaddis
- Agapē Agape by William Gaddis Buy this book
- The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings by William Gaddis, edited by Joseph Tabbi
David Trotter: Agoraphobia
- Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia by Paul Carter
Jonathan Dollimore: Men and Motors
Thomas Jones on ‘freedom’
E.S. Turner on the Tower Menagerie
- The Tower Menagerie: Being the Amazing True Story of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts by Daniel Hahn
Andrew O’Hagan: Sinatra
- Mr S.: The Last Word on Frank Sinatra by George Jacobs and William Stadiem
J. Hoberman: Disney, Benjamin, Adorno
- Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde by Esther Leslie
R.W. Johnson on the sociology of football
- Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War by Simon Kuper
- Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football by Tom Bower
Robert Crawford on Elizabeth Jennings
- New Collected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings
Peter Campbell on Antony Gormley
Miranda Seymour on Julian Maclaren-Ross
- Fear & Loathing in Fitzrovia: The Bizarre Life of Writer, Actor, Soho Dandy, Julian Maclaren-Ross by Paul Willetts
Elaine Showalter on Margaret Atwood
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Thomas Karshan on Nicholson Baker
- A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
Patrick Cockburn reports from Baghdad
Contributors
John Berger went to Ramallah in June. His most recent book, Shape of a Pocket, is published by Bloomsbury.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent on the Independent and has been visiting Iraq since 1977. Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq was published in April.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Jonathan Dollimore’s books include Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture and Sex, Literature and Censorship.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
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.
J. Hoberman is senior film critic for the Village Voice and the author of The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties.
Anne Hollander wrote the text for Woman in the Mirror, Richard Avedon’s last collection of photographs. She is now at work on a study of literary clothing.
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.
Thomas Karshan is writing a PhD thesis on Nabokov at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
R.F. Langley’s Collected Poems came out in 2000; The Face of It was published in April.
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.
Miranda Seymour’s most recent biography was of Mary Shelley. Her Life of Robert Graves will be reissued next month.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
David Trotter is a professor of English at Cambridge and the author of The English Novel in History, The Making of the Reader and, most recently, Cinema and Modernism.
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.
Clive Wilmer has published five collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Falls.
Richard Wollheim, who died on 4 November 2003, was Grote Professor in the University of London, before moving to the States, where he taught at Columbia and at Berkeley. His last book was On the Emotions (1999).
