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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 12 · 24 June 2004
Amit Chaudhuri: ‘First in Europe, then elsewhere’
- Provincialising Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Richard Clogg, Patrick Renshaw, David Simpson, Ian Hennessey, Peregrine Worsthorne, Julian Rathbone, Brian Concannon, Andrew McNeillie, Ralph Seliger, Martin Pierce, Geoffrey Thompson, Michael Wright
Tim Flannery on the Holocene summer of social evolution
- The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilisation by Brian Fagan
Mahmoud Darwish translated by Taline Voskeritchian and Christopher Millis
Tom Nairn: popping the bubble of American supremacy
- After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd, translated by C. Jon Delogu Buy this book
- Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power by George Soros
E.S. Turner on ‘the fastest woman in the world’ and the wild early years of motor-racing
Andrew Nathan on the ‘faceless fellow’ of Chinese espionage
- Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
John Connelly on the Warsaw Rising
- Rising ’44: ‘The Battle for Warsaw’ by Norman Davies
Charles Glass on post-Zionist historiography
- A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe
- The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst
- The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited by Benny Morris
Thomas Jones isn’t impressed by good booking men
Nina Auerbach: the haunting of the Hudson Valley
- Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley by Judith Richardson
William Skidelsky on Jonathan Lethem and back-street superheroes
Terry Castle on the vampiric Mercedes de Acosta
- ‘That Furious Lesbian’: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta by Robert Schanke
- Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes de Acosta, edited by Robert Schanke
Gail Levin on how the Tate gets him wrong
- Edward Hopper edited by Sheena Wagstaff
Peter Campbell: good plain painting and men in shirt-sleeves
A.D. Nuttall: Descartes’s botch
Adam Kuper: Lévi-Strauss
- Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Formative Years
Stephen Sedley shares a drink with the man who tried to bring Pinochet to justice
Contributors
Nina Auerbach teaches at the University of Pennsylvania; she writes frequently about ghosts, ghostly creatures and vampires.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
John Connelly teaches the history of East Central Europe at the University of California, Berkeley. He is writing a book about racism and its opponents in the Roman Catholic Church.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Mahmoud Darwish is Palestine’s most eminent poet. The Adam of Two Edens, a selection of work translated into English is available from Syracuse University Press.
Tim Flannery is the director of the South Australian Museum and chair of the state’s Science Council. He is the editor of The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier (2000).
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Adam Kuper, whose most recent book is The Reinvention of Primitive Society, is a professor of anthropology at Brunel University.
Gail Levin organised the first retrospective of Edward Hopper’s work in Britain for the Hayward Gallery in 1981. Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography was published in 1998.
Tom Nairn is a researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, concerned with nationalism and the political and cultural effects of globalisation.
Andrew Nathan is the Class of 1919 Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia. He co-edited The Tiananmen Papers and is the author, with Bruce Gilley, of China’s New Rulers.
A.D. Nuttall’s many books include Dead From the Waist Down, a study of the idea of the scholar in relation to sexuality. He is a fellow of New College, Oxford.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
William Skidelsky is an editor at the New Statesman.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
