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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 18 · 23 September 2004
David Simpson: Clinton on Clinton
Jim Harper, Julian Rathbone, Phyllis Goldberg, Christopher Wintle, Nick Sweeney, Hamilton Scott, Güneli Gün, Gail Levin, Joe Baker
Andrew O’Hagan in Bushland
Perry Anderson: The Normalising of France
- Le Rappel à l’ordre: Enquête sur les nouveaux réactionnaires by Daniel Lindenberg
- Esquisse pour une auto-analyse by Pierre Bourdieu
- La République mondiale des lettres by Pascale Casanova
Nicholas Penny: A Fascination with Atrocity
Peter de Bolla: Deleuze on Bacon
- Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation by Gilles Deleuze, translated by Daniel Smith Buy this book
Thomas Jones: Not by Henry James
Theodore Ziolkowski on a rich translation of Hölderlin
- Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin, translated by Michael Hamburger Buy this book
Terry Eagleton on Lodge’s James
Andy Beckett: David Peace does the miners’ strike
Tessa Hadley on Kate Atkinson’s latest
Peter Campbell on fashion photography
Lorraine Daston on serendipidity
- The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science by Robert Merton and Elinor Barber Buy this book
James Morone: Gore Vidal on the venal history of America
- Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal
James Hamilton-Paterson on what’s happened to the sea
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Andy Beckett’s Pinochet in Piccadilly is out in paperback. He is writing a book about Britain in the 1970s.
Peter de Bolla, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Art Matters and the forthcoming The Education of the Eye.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Lorraine Daston, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has written on the history of probability, wonders and scientific objectivity.
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.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. A collection of stories, Sunstroke, and a novel, The Master Bedroom, were published last year.
James Hamilton-Paterson lives in Italy. His most recent novel, Cooking with Fernet Branca is published by Faber.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Kinsella’s most recent book of poems is The New Arcadia.
James Morone is a professor of politics at Brown University and the author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. His next book will be George Washington’s Revenge.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
David Simpson teaches English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern will come out from Cambridge next year.
Theodore Ziolkowski’s Hesitant Heroes: Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis and Clio: The Romantic Muse have both appeared this year. He is professor emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton.
