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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 4 · 17 February 2005
Bruce Ackerman: The Supreme Court under Threat
Joanna Ryan, Simon Blackburn & Jeremy Waldron, Thomas Nagel, Judith Crosher, Will Podmore, Adrian Bowyer, Harold Reynolds
Sara Roy: On-campus syllabus-control
Andrew O’Hagan on Robert Louis Stevenson
Joseph Frank charts Chekhov’s career
- Chekhov: Scenes from a Life by Rosamund Bartlett Buy this book
- Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips Buy this book
Catherine Merridale: A Russian starlet in Hitler’s Berlin
Mary Hawthorne: In the Munro mould
Marina Warner: Girls Are Rubbish
- Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from around the World by Mineke Schipper Buy this book
David Simpson: Abasing language, abusing prisoners
- Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror by Mark Danner Buy this book
- The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib edited by Karen Greenberg and Joshua Dratel Buy this book
Thomas Jones: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Mary Celeste
Peter Campbell: The Triumph of Painting
J. Hoberman: The Strangest Personality Ever to Lead the Free World
- Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief by Mark Feeney Buy this book
Ferdinand Mount takes Gladstone seriously
- The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics by David Bebbington Buy this book
Brian Rotman: Why did the eternal one arrive so late?
Malcolm Schofield: Aristotle’s legacy
- A New History of Western Philosophy, Vol. I: Ancient Philosophy by Anthony Kenny Buy this book
Leofranc Holford-Strevens: The difficulties of reading Pindar
- Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity and the Classical Tradition by John T. Hamilton Buy this book
- The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets by Michael Schmidt Buy this book
John Mullan: Betrothed to Christ and in a muddle
Patrick Cockburn on the Iraqi elections
Contributors
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author, most recently, of Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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.
Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Stanford. The fifth and final volume of his Life of Dostoevsky was published in 2002.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Mary Hawthorne is on the staff of the New Yorker.
J. Hoberman is senior film critic for the Village Voice and the author of The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens is consultant scholar-editor at OUP.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Jamie McKendrick edited the Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems. His collections include Ink Stone, Sky Nails and The Marble Fly.
Sarah Manguso’s The Captain Lands in Paradise was published in 2002. She is a Hodder Fellow at Princeton.
Catherine Merridale, a lecturer in history at Bristol University, is the author of Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia.
Ferdinand Mount’s Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes is out soon.
John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.
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.
Brian Rotman is a member of the faculty of comparative studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Signifying Nothing (about zero) and of Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing’s Machine.
Sara Roy, the author of The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development, is a senior research scholar at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. She wrote about the Israeli withdrawl from Gaza in the summer issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Malcolm Schofield is co-editor of The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy.
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.
Marina Warner’s books include From the Beast to the Blonde, Indigo and most recently, Phantasmagoria. She teaches at the University of Essex.
