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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 22 · 20 November 2003
Chalmers Johnson on Japan, the US and stolen gold
- Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold by Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave
Paul Taylor, Christopher May, Wilhelm Schmid, Lindesay Irvine, Peter Womack, Martha Bridegam, L.P. Harvey, Christopher Prendergast, Jeremy Harding, Brian Cosgrove
Elizabeth Drew on JFK
- John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-63 by Robert Dallek
Steven Shapin on the changing rind of Camembert
- Camembert: A National Myth by Pierre Boisard, translated by Richard Miller
Linda Colley: William Cobbett, forerunner of the Sun
- William Cobbett: Selected Writings edited by Leonora Nattrass
- Rural rides by William Cobbett, edited by Ian Dyck
Peter Campbell in Bloomsbury
Thomas Jones on cold fish at the royal household
Fredric Jameson on Kenzaburo Oe
- Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by Philip Gabriel
Slavoj Žižek on Henning Mankell
- The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell, translated by Laurie Thompson
James Wood on D.B.C. Pierre
- Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
David Trotter: Good Fetishism
- A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature by Bill Brown
Nicholas Penny on Botticelli
Leofranc Holford-Strevens on the Oxford English Dictionary
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Erika Hagelberg on Adam, Eve and genetics
- The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Astonishing Story that Reveals How Each of Us Can Trace Our Genetic Ancestors by Bryan Sykes
- Mapping Human History: Unravelling the Mystery of Adam and Eve by Steve Olson
- The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells
Jenny Diski: V is for Vagina
- The Story of V: Opening Pandora’s Box by Catherine Blackledge
Michael Wood in the City of Good Air
Contributors
John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air won the 2008 Griffin International Poetry Prize. The first volume of his collected poems will be published by the Library of America.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her latest book is The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Elizabeth Drew is a Washington journalist who has published 12 books.
Erika Hagelberg is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Oslo.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens is consultant scholar-editor at OUP.
Fredric Jameson teaches at Duke University. His many books include A Singular Modernity.
Chalmers Johnson was a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the CIA from 1967 to 1972. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, is out this month.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
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.
David Trotter is a professor of English at Cambridge and the author of The English Novel in History, The Making of the Reader and, most recently, Cinema and Modernism.
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.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.
