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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 21 · 6 November 2003
Stefan Collini: The Business of Higher Education
- The Future of Higher Education
Mary Elkins, Mattias Brinkman, Stephen Sedley, John Clayton, Gareth Dixon, Frank Kermode, John Yandell, Jules Greavey, Adrian Bowyer, Stanley’s Joke, Leon Lewis, Rebecca Solnit
Thomas Jones on Bob Dylan
- Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks
Virginia Tilley considers the future of Israel and Palestine
Uri Avnery: In Arafat’s Compound
Anne Hollander: The Art of War
- From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672 by David Kunzle
Colin Burrow: Montaigne’s Tower
- Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher by Anne Hartle
John Sturrock on Blair’s wars
Blair Worden on 17th-century poets and politics
- The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament: Literary and Historical Perspectives edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies
- The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair 1603-60 by Alastair Bellany
Peter Campbell on the Survey of India
Michael Dobson on images of Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s Face: The Story behind the Newly Discovered Portrait by Stephanie Nolen
- Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions by Stephen Orgel
- Shakespeare in Art by Jane Martineau et al
- In Search of Shakespeare by Michael Wood
John Mullan on Byron
- Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy
Gary Indiana: It’s Schwarzenegger!
Liam McIlvanney on Jonathan Raban and the ‘novel-sized city’
Leo Benedictus on Magnus Mills
- The Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills
Edward Pearce on a poet of Chartism
- Ernest Jones, Chartism and the Romance of Politics 1819-69 by Miles Taylor
Ben Sonnenberg: Two Poems
Contributors
Uri Avnery is a former member of the Knesset and a leader of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc.
Leo Benedictus is a journalist who lives in London.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
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.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics.
Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.
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.
Gary Indiana has written several novels, plays and works of non-fiction. He is preparing a study of Andy Warhol.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Liam McIlvanney is the author of Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late 18th-Century Scotland, which won the Saltire First Book Award in 2002. He teaches at the University of Aberdeen.
John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.
Edward Pearce is the author of Denis Healey. Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act is out this month.
Carl Rakosi began publishing poetry in the early 1920s. He died in June 2004.
Ben Sonnenberg started the magazine Grand Street in 1982 and gave it up in 1991. Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy has been reprinted by Counterpoint.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Virginia Tilley is currently working at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg. She is the author of The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock.
Blair Worden is research professor in history at Royal Holloway College in London. Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England is coming out in the autumn.
