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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 11 · 3 June 2004
Michael Wood: García Márquez tells his story
- Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Lewis Harvey, Jim Harper, Anthony Fenton, Timothy Williams, Virginia Tilley, Bas Sprakes, Joanna Kavenna, Eoin Dillon
David Bromwich: This was Orson Welles
- Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life by Peter Conrad
Perry Anderson on Greens v. Blues in the South China Sea
Peter Campbell: Deep holes and narrow tracks at Paddington
Yitzhak Laor on Israeli militarism
Slavoj Žižek: The Culture of Torture
Alan Bennett on exam-taking and his new play
Thomas Jones on the life expectancy of a Roman emperor
John Sutherland: Christopher Isherwood and his boys
- Isherwood by Peter Parker
Lucy Daniel reads Jeannette Winterson
- Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
Mary Ann Caws: Robert Desnos and Surrealism for the masses
- Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvellous in Everyday Life by Katharine Conley
Simon Schaffer on the evolution of the battery
- Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment by Giuliano Pancaldi
Patrick Wormald on the Normans
- The Battle of Hastings, 1066 by M.K. Lawson
- The Normans: The History of a Dynasty by David Crouch
- Domesday Book: A Complete Translation edited by Ann Williams and G.H. Martin
Richard White on the history of the Sioux
- The Sioux: The Dakota and Lakota Nations by Guy Gibbon
David Wheatley on Irish literary magazines
- Irish Literary Magazines: An Outline History and Descriptive Bibliography
Andrew O’Hagan reads some lad mags
- Stag & Groom Magazine edited by Perdita Patterson
- Zoo edited by Paul Merrill
- Nuts edited by Phil Hilton
- Loaded edited by Martin Daubney
- Jack edited by Michael Hodges
- Esquire edited by Simon Tiffin
- GQ edited by Dylan Jones
- Men’s Health edited by Morgan Rees
- Arena Homme Plus: ‘The Boys of Summer’ edited by Ashley Heath
Christopher Turner on Summerhill School and the real Orgasmatron
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
David Bromwich teaches English at Yale and is the editor of a selection of Burke’s writings, On Empire, Liberty and Reform.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Mary Ann Caws has a short illustrated biography of Salvador Dalí coming in June and a cooking memoir about living in Provence coming in November.
Lucy Daniel is writing a book about Gertrude Stein.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
R.F. Langley’s Collected Poems came out in 2000; The Face of It was published in April.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
Patrick McGuinness, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, is the author of Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Simon Schaffer teaches the history of science at Cambridge. His collection of essays on inquiry and invention from the Renaissance to early industrialisation, co-edited with Lissa Roberts and Peter Dear, is due next year.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Christopher Turner’s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Britain and Farrar, Straus in the US.
David Wheatley, whose collections include Thirst, Misery Hill and Mocker, teaches at Hull.
Richard White is the author of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes Region 1650-1815, among other books. He is the Margaret Byrne Professor of History at Stanford.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Patrick Wormald, the author of Bede and the Conversion of England and many other books, died in September 2004.
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.
