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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 3 · 5 February 2004
John Lanchester: What is Murdoch after?
- The Murdoch Archipelago by Bruce Page
- Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Media Wizard by Neil Chenoweth
- Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs and Money Guys who Mastered and Messed up Big Media by Michael Wolff
Martin Summers, Nick Simpson, Julian Bell, Edward Pearce, Vanessa Coode, Martin Ward, Rupert Read, John Higgins, David Craig, Gavin Bell, Alison Macleod, Tuvia Blumenthal, Jonathan Sawday, John Price, John Heath
Martin Jacques: The Nation-state isn’t dead
- Empire of Capital by Ellen Meiksins Wood
- Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan by Michael Ignatieff
- Global Civil Society? by John Keane
- Global Civil Society: An Answer to War by Mary Kaldor
Amartya Sen: Sustainability
Mary Hawthorne: The Luck of Walker Evans
- Walker Evans by James Mellow
Terry Eagleton: Lawrence Sanitised
- D.H. Lawrence and ‘Difference’: Post-Coloniality and the Poetry of the Present by Amit Chaudhuri
Thomas Jones: Godot on a bike
Wyatt Mason on Tobias Wolff and fictions of the self
Fatema Ahmed on James Salter
- Cassada by James Salter
- Light Years by James Salter
Robert Macfarlane on the men who invented flight
- First to Fly: The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright by James Tobin
- The Wright Brothers: The Aviation Pioneers who Changed the World by Ian Mackersey
- Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman
- Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity to the First World War by Richard Hallion
Adrian Woolfson on a theology of evolution
- Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris
Hugh Pennington on the rise and rise of tuberculosis
- The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the ‘New’ Tuberculosis edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla
Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Virginia Woolf and Harriet Martineaun in the sick room
- Life in the Sick-Room by Harriet Martineau, edited by Maria Frawley
- On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf, edited by Hermione Lee
Peter Campbell: Philip Guston fouls the nest
Colm Tóibín on the women who invented beauty
- War Paint: Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry by Lindy Woodhead
- Diana Vreeland by Eleanor Dwight
Sophie Harrison cuts up a corpse
Contributors
Fatema Ahmed works at Granta.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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.
Sophie Harrison is a first-year medical student.
Mary Hawthorne is on the staff of the New Yorker.
Martin Jacques, a visiting fellow at the LSE Asia Research Centre, is completing a study of East Asian modernities.
Clive James is working on the fourth volume of his unreliable memoirs.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Lanchester is a contributing editor at the LRB. His latest book is Family Romance, a memoir.
James Lasdun’s novel, The Horned Man, appeared in 2002. His most recent book of poetry is Landscape with Chainsaw.
Robert Macfarlane teaches at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination won the Guardian First Book Award.
Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.
Wyatt Mason is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. His translation of Rimbaud’s works is published by Scribner.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak.
Amartya Sen was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004. He is Lamont University Professor at Harvard.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
Adrian Woolfson is the author of the The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics and Life without Genes: The History and Future of Genomes. He teaches medicine at Clare College, Cambridge.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English at Yale. Her new book is Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.
