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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 3 · 3 February 2005
Eliot Weinberger watches and listens
Thomas Davies, Patrick Collinson, Bernard Liengme, Teresa Grant, Andrew Jotischky, Christopher Small, Nick Chapple, Virginia Warren, Phil Edwards, Sylvia Elias, Andrew Sheppard
Thomas Nagel on H.L.A. Hart
- A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream by Nicola Lacey Buy this book
Linda Colley puts the navy in its place
- The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815 by N.A.M. Rodger Buy this book
Rashid Khalidi weighs up Palestine’s options
Terry Eagleton on the failings of Pope John Paul II
- The Pope in Winter: The Dark Face of John Paul II’s Papacy by John Cornwell Buy this book
Thomas Jones on the smothering of Babylon
David Wootton: Turpin Hero?
- Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman by James Sharpe Buy this book
Christopher Tayler: The cult of Godzilla
- Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by William Tsutsui Buy this book
Tessa Hadley: Richler’s happy families
Elizabeth Lowry: Magic realism in Mozambique
- The Last Flight of the Flamingo by Mia Couto, translated by David Brookshaw Buy this book
Peter Campbell: The Rolls-Royce Merlin and other engines
Paul Driver: Anatomising Mendelssohn
Steven Shapin: How good is Château Pavie?
John Whitfield on plate tectonics
Naomi Shepherd: Israel’s longing for normality
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her latest book is The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.
Paul Driver writes about music for the Sunday Times.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia, is the author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, will be published by Quercus in July.
Edwin Morgan’s most recent book is Tales from Baron Munchausen (Mariscat). The Play of Gilgamesh is due from Carcanet this year.
Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays is his most recent book.
Don Paterson’s Orpheus, a version of Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus, will be published later this year. His previous collections include Landing Light, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Eyes and God’s Gift to Women.
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.
Naomi Shepherd is the author of a number of books on Israel and the Middle East, most recently Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-48 (1999) and a book of short stories, Ashes (2001).
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Eliot Weinberger’s recent books include What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, An Elemental Thing and The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry.
John Whitfield is the author of In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy and the Unity of Nature. He lives in London.
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.
