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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 6 · 18 March 2004
David Thomson on where Joan Didion was from
- Where I Was From by Joan Didion
Patrick Wormald, Daniel Dennett, John Welch, Wilfred Beckerman, Lee Goodare, Mark Erickson, Reuven Kaminer, William Schober, Leonard Benardo, Robert Macfarlane
Ross McKibbin: Thatcher
- Margaret Thatcher, Vol. II: The Iron Lady by John Campbell
Jacqueline Rose on David Grossman
- Death as a Way of Life: Dispatches from Jerusalem by David Grossman
- Someone to Run With by David Grossman
Peter Campbell: Roy Lichtenstein
David Edgar: Arthur Miller and the Oblong Blur
- Arthur Miller: A Life by Martin Gottfried
Michael Wood: ‘The Master’
Theo Tait on Paul Auster
- Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Thomas Jones: Alastair Campbell, Good Bloke
Christopher Tayler: Adventures with Robert Stone
- Bay of Souls by Robert Stone
Tessa Hadley reads Anne Tyler
- The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
Stephen Fender on the Federal Writer’s Project’s American epic
- Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers’ Project by Jerrold Hirsch
John Sutherland: The Great John Murray Archive Disaster
John Gittings: Chiang Kai-shek
- Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost by Jonathan Fenby
Geoffrey Best on Dracula in Churchill’s toyshop
- Prof: The Life of Frederick Lindemann by Adrian Fort
Graham Robb on the world’s first anti-hero rogue cop
- Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime
Brian Barder explains why he resigned from the Special Immigration Appeals Commission
Patrick Cockburn reports from Baghdad
Contributors
Brian Barder was British ambassador to Ethiopia, Poland and Benin, and high commissioner in Nigeria and Australia. He retired in 1994.
Geoffrey Best’s Churchill and War was published in 2005. He taught history at Sussex for many years.
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.
David Edgar is currently adapting Julian Barnes’s Arthur and George for the stage and writing a new play for Out of Joint.
Stephen Fender teaches at the University of Sussex. He is writing a book on the New Deal and the rural poor.
John Gittings first visited China during the Cultural Revolution and was the Guardian China specialist from 1983 to 2003. He is now a research associate at the Centre of Chinese Studies at SOAS.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. A collection of stories, Sunstroke, and a novel, The Master Bedroom, were published last year.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.
Ruth Padel’s The Poem and the Journey is out from Chatto.
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century was published in 2003.
Jacqueline Rose teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity, edited with Anne Karpf, Brian Klug and Barbara Rosenbaum, will be published by Verso.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
David Thomson is the author of A Biographical Dictionary of Film and Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles, among other books. He is a British expatriate who lives in California.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
