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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 14 · 22 July 2004
David Wootton: Two people, one body
- One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Domurat Dreger
Doreen Elcox, Keith Flett, Nicholas Beale, Michael Costello, Xiaomai Feng, Fred Josephs, Premen Addy, Jonathan Mallalieu, Joe Morison, D.D. Guttenplan, Vladan Vidakovic, Chris Kirtley, Virginia Price Evans, Ross Hibbert, Rosamund Young
Stefan Collini: How innocent was Stephen Spender?
A.W. Moore on the quest to solve the Millenium Problems
- The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time by Keith Devlin
Karl Sabbagh meets the man who believes he has proved the Riemann Hypothesis
Liam McIlvanney: James Kelman’s witterings
- You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman
Terry Eagleton on the life of Lucia Joyce
- Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss Buy this book
Wendy Doniger: The incarnations of Robin Hood
Thomas Jones on politicians v. the press
Patrick Collinson: Recovering the Reformation
Stephen Mulhall on the intolerance of liberalism
- Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law by Martha Nussbaum Buy this book
P.N. Furbank: Medical myths of homosexuality
Bernard Rudden on the history of London’s water supply
Michael Byers on Saddam, Milosevic and Sharon
Yitzhak Laor: The Soldiers’ Stories
Patrick Cockburn on Iraq after the handover
Contributors
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of, among other books, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India and The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.
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.
P.N. Furbank is general editor, with W.R. Owens, of The Works of Daniel Defoe. His other books include Unholy Pleasure, E.M. Forster: A Life and Behalf.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
Liam McIlvanney is the author of Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late 18th-Century Scotland, which won the Saltire First Book Award in 2002. He teaches at the University of Aberdeen.
A.W. Moore is a fellow in philosophy at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. A second edition of The Infinite was published in 2001.
Stephen Mulhall is a fellow of New College, Oxford. His books include Philosophical Myths of the Fall and Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard.
Bernard Rudden, emeritus professor of comparative law at Oxford, is the author of The New River: A Legal History and The Law of Property.
Karl Sabbagh is a writer and TV producer whose book The Riemann Hypothesis is just out in paperback from Farrar, Straus in the US. He is completing a history of Palestine, to be published by Atlantic.
Matthew Sweeney’s most recent collection is Black Moon.
David Wootton’s Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates will be published by Oxford in June. He teaches early modern history at the University of York, where he is an Anniversary Professor.