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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 15 · 7 August 2003
Ross McKibbin: Origins of the Present Mess
Marilyn Bowering, David Rose, Brian Towers, Anthony Summers, Wilhelm Schmid, Michael McManus, Jill Kitson, Brian Winston, Edward Hooper, Martin Staniforth, Charles Glass
Barbara Everett: Coleridge the Modernist
- Coleridge’s Notebooks: A Selection edited by Seamus Perry
- The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works I: Poems (Reading Text) edited by J.C.C. Mays
- The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works II: Poems (Variorum Text) edited by J.C.C. Mays
- The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works III: Plays edited by J.C.C. Mays
Ferdinand Mount: Tea with Sassoon
- Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet 1886-1918 by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
- Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches 1918-67 by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
- Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil by Peter Stansky
David Reynolds: Ole Man Churchill
- Churchill by John Keegan
- Man of the Century: Winston Churchill and His Legend since 1945 by John Ramsden
- Clementine Churchill: The Revised and Updated Biography by Mary Soames
- Churchill at War 1940-45 by Lord Moran
- Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy by Klaus Larres
Helen King: The Invention of Sparta
- Spartan Women by Sarah Pomeroy
John Sturrock: Spun and Unspun
Ingrid Rowland: The Pazzi Conspiracy
- April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici by Lauro Martines
M.F. Burnyeat: How Plato Works
- The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues by Ruby Blondell
Michael Peel reports from Liberia
Stanley Uys: The President’s African Safari
Robert Irwin: How the Koran Works
- The Koran translated by N.J. Dawood
James Meek on Fat
- The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Peter Campbell: Medical Curiosities
Benjamin Markovits on Alice McDermott
- Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
James Francken on Toby Litt
- Finding Myself by Toby Litt
Kathleen Jamie: Gannets, Whaups, Skuas
Contributors
M.F. Burnyeat has returned to Robinson College, Cambridge after ten years as senior research fellow in philosophy at All Souls. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato, among other books.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Barbara Everett’s books include Young Hamlet and Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
Helen King is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Departments of Classics and History at the University of Reading. She is the author of Hippocrate’s Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece, published by Routledge.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Ross McKibbin, a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, is the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.
James Meek’s novel We Are Now Beginning Our Descent was published in February. The People’s Act of Love won the Ondaatje Prize.
Ferdinand Mount’s Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes is out soon.
Michael Peel is the West Africa correspondent of the Financial Times.
David Reynolds’s From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt’s America and the Origins of the Second World War came out in 2001. He is a fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge.
Ingrid Rowland is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at the American Academy in Rome. She is completing a biography of Giordano Bruno.
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.
Stanley Uys was political editor of the Johannesburg Sunday Times for most of the apartheid years.
