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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 24 · 18 December 2003
Charles Glass: Terror on the High Seas
John Carey, Martyn Goff, James Wood, Eva Gillies, Rex Winsbury, Derek Robinson, Bruce Clunies Ross, Mattias Brinkman, E.S. Turner, Carol Reid, Marius Pope
Marian FitzGerald on the Great Prison Disaster
- Prisongate: The Shocking State of Britain’s Prisons and the Need for Visionary Change by David Ramsbotham
Terry Castle: Art Pepper and Me
Gregory Dart on Leigh Hunt
- The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt edited by Robert Morrison and Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Michael Wood: Literature and the Taste of Knowledge
John Sturrock: A Bath in the Dock
Robert Macfarlane: Vanishing Victorians
- The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny, translated by Ralph Freedman
A.W. Moore on Infinity
- Everything and More: A Compact History of ∞ by David Foster Wallace
- A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable by Brian Clegg
- The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
Kathleen Jamie: A Winter Solstice
Hal Foster on Pop Surrealism
Richard Fortey: The Last 20,000 Years
- After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC by Steven Mithen
P.N. Furbank on Norman Lewis
- The Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis
John Jones: Iris, Hegel and Me
Contributors
Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com
Gregory Dart is a lecturer in the English Department at University College London. Unrequited Love: On Stalking and Being Stalked came out in April.
Mark Doty is the author of Firebird, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Source.
Marian FitzGerald is a visiting research professor at the LSE’s Mannheim Centre. From 1988 to 1999 she worked in the Research and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office.
Richard Fortey is a research scientist at the Natural History Museum and visiting professor of palaeobiology at Oxford. The Earth: An Intimate History was shortlisted for the Aventis science writing prize 2005.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
John Fuller’s most recent collection of poems is Now and for a Time; his latest novel is The Memoirs of Laetitia Horsepole, by Herself: both are published by Chatto.
P.N. Furbank is general editor, with W.R. Owens, of The Works of Daniel Defoe. His other books include Unholy Pleasure, E.M. Forster: A Life and Behalf.
Charles Glass has recently published two books on the Middle East, The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in France during the German occupation.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
John Jones reported football for the Observer and was later Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
Robert Macfarlane teaches at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination won the Guardian First Book Award.
Bill Manhire directs the creative writing programme at Victoria University in Wellington. His newest book of poems is Lifted.
A.W. Moore is a fellow in philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. A second edition of The Infinite was published in 2001.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
