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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 15 · 5 August 2004
Malcolm Coad, Simon Darragh, Mary Kenny, David Turner, Mark Mabberley, Mike Killingworth, John Gittings, Christopher Wintle, Denis Fairfax, John Bourn, Thomas Venning, Martin Hardcastle, Frank Ledwith, David Craig, Hugo Williams
Jerry Fodor on Wagner’s ‘Ring’
- Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner’s ‘Ring’ by Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht
Frank Kermode on B. S. Johnson
Andrew O’Hagan on Gielgud and Redgrave
- Gielgud's Letters edited by Richard Mangan
- Secret Dreams: A Biography of Michael Redgrave by Alan Strachan
Steven Shapin tucks into Atkins
- Dr Atkins’ New Diet Revolution: The No-Hunger, Luxurious Weight Loss Plan that Really Works! by Robert C. Atkins
- Atkins for Life: The Next Level, Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health by Robert C. Atkins
- The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston
David Runciman on non-spurious generalisations and why the crowd will win
- Profiles, Probabilities and Stereotypes by Frederick Schauer
- The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few by James Surowiecki
John Sturrock reads Butler
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff on detention without trial
Alex de Waal: The Road to Darfur
Maurice Keen on a medieval miracle
- The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory and Colonialism in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett
Christopher Tayler on Orhan Pamuk
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely
Peter Campbell on Russian landscapes
Benjamin Markovits reads Mark Costello
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jenny Diski’s new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published in November. She is currently bobbing about on the South Atlantic.
Jerry Fodor is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He teaches at University College London.
Maurice Keen is an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, where he was tutor in medieval history from 1961 to 2000. His books include Chivalry (1984) and Origins of the English Gentleman (2002).
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.
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.
David Runciman’s Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell will be published by Princeton.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, a London solicitor, represents patients detained under the Mental Health Act.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Alex de Waal is programme director at the Social Science Research Council and the author, with Julie Flint, of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War.
