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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 18 · 25 September 2003
Ian Sansom on D.J. Enright
Margery Rowe, Frank Kermode, Felicity Harper, Alan Davies, Emanuel Goldman, Timothy Burns, Denis MacShane, Max Wright, Sardar Ahmed Shah Jan, Felix Wiedler, Rob Close, Julian Rathbone
Susan Sontag: Anna Banti’s Artemisia
Colin Kidd: The Dark Side of American Liberalism
- Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History by James Morone
Greg Dening on Australia
- The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia by John Gascoigne
- Looking for Blackfella’s Point: An Australian History of Place by Mark McKenna
- Words for Country: Landscape and Language in Australia by Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths
- The Land Is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia edited by Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson
Stephen Sedley: Adversarial or Inquisitorial?
- The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial by John Langbein
- Archbold: International Criminal Courts edited by Rodney Dixon, Richard May and Karim Khan
Rosemary Hill: Hooray for Harriette
- Harriette Wilson's 'Memoirs' edited by Lesley Blanch
- The Courtesan’s Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King by Frances Wilson
Thomas Jones: Anti-Socialism
Jenny Diski: Nietzsche’s Bad Sister
- Nietzsche’s Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche by Carol Diethe
Sally Mapstone: The Variousness of Robert Fergusson
- ‘Heaven-Taught Fergusson’: Robert Burns’s Favourite Scottish Poet edited by Robert Crawford
Stephen Walsh on Prokofiev
- Prokofiev: From Russia to the West 1891-1935 by David Nice
Peter Campbell: London 1753
William Wootten on David Jones
- Wedding Poems by David Jones, edited by Thomas Dilworth
- David Jones: Writer and Artist by Keith Alldritt
David A. Bell: A Nation of Beefeaters
- Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation by Ben Rogers
Miles Taylor on Tony Benn
- Free at Last: Diaries 1991-2001 by Tony Benn
- Free Radical: New Century Essays by Tony Benn
William Skidelsky on Geoff Dyer
- Yoga for People who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
William Deresiewicz on Julio Llamazares
- The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Stuart Kerr: On Trial in Turkey
Contributors
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Greg Dening is emeritus professor of history at the University of Melbourne.
William Deresiewicz has just finished a study of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets. He teaches at Yale.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Martin Harrison is the author of Summer.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Stuart Kerr is a barrister who practises in refugee law.
Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.
Sally Mapstone, president of the Scottish Text Society, is a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
William Skidelsky is an editor at the New Statesman.
Susan Sontag died in December 2004.
Miles Taylor teaches history at the University of York. His life of the Chartist Ernest Jones came out last year.
Stephen Walsh holds a personal chair in music at Cardiff University. He is working on a study of Musorgsky and the Russian nationalists.
William Wootten sells books, when not reviewing them.