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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 20 · 23 October 2003
Michael Wood remembers Edward Said
Matthew Scully, Deborah Heller, Andrew O’Hagan, Edward Buscombe, Blair Worden, Simon Gladdish, Thomas Dilworth, Bill Myers, S.L. Barley, John Scott, William Wilson, Mark McLean, Malcolm Hurwitt, E.S. Turner, John Wardroper, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Jon Cannon, Ken Kirk, Fatema Ahmed, Elizabeth Spelman, Editor, ‘London Review’
David Runciman rediscovers the Abbé Sieyès
- Emmanuel Sieyès: Political Writings edited by Michael Sonenscher
Eric Foner on Lincoln
- Lincoln by Richard Carwardine
- Lincoln's Constitution by Daniel Farber
James Wood: Coetzee’s Confessions
- Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons by J.M. Coetzee
Terry Eagleton: The Realism of Erich Auerbach
- Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach
Laura Quinney: ‘With a stink and a stink’
Frank Kermode: Marvell beneath the Notes
- The Poems of Andrew Marvell edited by Nigel Smith
Jonathan Barnes on bickering souls in Ancient Greece and China
- The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece by Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin
Christine Stansell on Whistler
- Whistler, Women and Fashion by Margaret MacDonald and Susan Grace Galassi et al
- Whistler and His Mother: An Unexpected Relationship by Sarah Walden
Nicholas Penny on Goltzius
Ian Campbell Ross on ‘provincial genius’
- Hermsprong; or Man as He Is Not by Robert Bage, edited by Pamela Perkins Buy this book
Hilary Mantel meets her stepfather
Contributors
Jonathan Barnes recently published an edition of Porphyry’s Introduction. He teaches philosophy at the Sorbonne.
Harry Clifton’s most recent book of poems is God in France: A Paris Sequence 1994-98.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. His most recent book is Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Laura Quinney is the author of Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth and The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. She teaches at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Ian Campbell Ross teaches English at Trinity College Dublin, and is the author of Laurence Sterne: A Life.
David Runciman’s Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell will be published by Princeton.
Christine Stansell’s latest book is American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century. She is a professor of history at Princeton.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
