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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 2 · 20 January 2005
Stefan Collini: The New DNB
- The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison
Chris Hardy, Peter Morris, L.J. Hurst, Timothy Brennan, Peter Connolly, John Henn, Paul Tickell, David McDowall, Rod Eastwood, Gerry Harrison, Rory O’Keeffe
Colin Burrow on speculating about Shakespeare
Richard Rorty: After Kripke
- Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century: Vol. I: The Dawn of Analysis by Scott Soames Buy this book
- Philosophical Analysis in the 20th Century: Vol. II: The Age of Meaning by Scott Soames Buy this book
Jeremy Adler takes on Peter Singer
- Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer Buy this book
Art Spiegelman: Singing the Inauguration Day blues
Jonathan Rée on the relationship between Camus and Sartre
- Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It by Ronald Aronson Buy this book
Ruth Bernard Yeazell on the Golden Age of Dutch painting
- Dutch 17th-century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution by Wayne Franits Buy this book
Stephen Sedley: The case for a national DNA register
Ian Gilmour on why Wordsworth sold a lot less than Byron
- The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period by William St Clair
Peter Campbell visits the art collection of a soap magnate
Thomas Jones on a mathematical murder mystery
- The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martínez, translated by Sonia Soto Buy this book
Christian Parenti meets the opium farmers of Afghanistan
Contributors
Jeremy Adler is a senior research fellow at King’s College London. His edition of Elias Canetti’s Aufzeichnungen für Marie-Louise appeared in 2005.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics.
Mark Doty is the author of Firebird, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Source.
Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died on 21 September 2007.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Christian Parenti, whose latest book is The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, is a research fellow at the City University of New York’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics.
Jonathan Rée is a member of the philosopher’s group of the British Humanist Association. He co-edited The Kierkegaard Reader.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Richard Rorty, whose books included Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Truth and Progress, was professor emeritus of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. He died in June 2007.
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?’
Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, which ran in the LRB from March to September 2003, is out from Viking.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell teaches literature at Yale. Her books include Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature and, most recently, Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.
