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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 2 · 22 January 2004
John Upton: Terror, Muslims and the Met
Stephen Green, Michael Pollak, Michael Brearley, Rob Close, Richard Thomas, Ian Leslie, Keith Flett, Graham Brown, John Lloyd, Colin Armstrong, J.H. Stape, John Sutherland, Don Locke, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Manfred Schulz, Anne-Marie Smith
Thomas Jones on Princess Di and Laura Palmer
T.J. Clark: Three Poussin Poems
Mary Beard: Tacitus and the Emperors
- Tacitus: Histories I edited by Cynthia Damon
John Mullan: on the high road with Bonnie Prince Charlie
- The ’45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising by Christopher Duffy
- Samuel Johnson in Historical Context edited by J.C.D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill
Jonathan Rée looks for Spinoza
- Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
Frank Kermode on Lady Gregory
Peter Campbell: Living, Dying and Enlightenment
Miranda Seymour: Birds’ claw omelettes with Vernon Lee
- Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography by Vineta Colby
Caroline Murphy: Camilla and the sex-motherers
- Camilla: An Intimate Portrait by Rebecca Tyrrel
Michael André Bernstein reads Norman Rush
John Sutherland on the crisis in academic publishing
Contributors
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
Michael André Bernstein’s novel, Conspirators, is due from Faber this year.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His book about Courbet, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, was published in 1973. His study of two Poussin landscapes, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing, is out in paperback.
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.
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.
Caroline Murphy works for Elle.
Jonathan Rée is a member of the philosopher’s group of the British Humanist Association. He co-edited The Kierkegaard Reader.
Miranda Seymour’s most recent biography was of Mary Shelley. Her Life of Robert Graves will be reissued next month.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.