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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 17 · 11 September 2003
Michael Hofmann: Read Robert Lowell!
- Collected Poems by Robert Lowell, edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter Buy this book
John Rettie, Patrick Collinson, Yitzhak Laor, Bennett Lovett-Graff, Parina Douzina Stiakaki, Mona Baker, Alan Locke, Masao Miyoshi, Yovanka Malkovich, Amit Chaudhuri, Robert Palter, Leslie Wilson, Mark McLean, Marta Knobloch, Kendall Wild, Editor, ‘London Review’, Mike Harding
Peter Clarke explains why he once supported Tony Blair and now believes he should go
Daniel Soar: Hutton’s Big Top
Christopher Tayler: Amis Recycled
- Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
Jeremy Noel-Tod on Andrew Motion
Peter Campbell: The Art of the Digital File
Steven Shapin on the Entrepreneurial University
- MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science by Henry Etzkowitz
- Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialisation of Higher Education by Derek Bok
Thomas Jones: Hatchet Jobs
Andrew O’Hagan: Cowboy Simplicities
- Searching for John Ford: A Life by Joseph McBride
Michael Wood on Katharine Hepburn
- Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg
John Sturrock: Accents and Attitudes
- Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol by Lynda Mugglestone
Stephen Mulhall: The Soul Hypothesis
- The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them by Owen Flanagan
Hugh Pennington: Symptoms of Syphilis
- Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden
Katha Pollitt: Bringing up Babies
- I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
- A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk
- The Truth about Babies: From A-Z by Ian Sansom
- What Are Children For? by Laurie Taylor and Matthew Taylor
- The Commercialisation of Intimate Life by Arlie Russell Hochschild
David Craig: The Call of the Abyss
Contributors
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Peter Clarke’s book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Indian independence in August.
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Stephen Mulhall is a fellow of New College, Oxford. His books include Philosophical Myths of the Fall and Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard.
Jeremy Noel-Tod is about to start a PhD in modern poetry at Cambridge.
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.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Katha Pollitt is the author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics and Culture.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
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 Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
