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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 6 · 17 March 2005
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Jews in the Revolution
J.R. Pole, Charles Coutinho, Moira Dustin, Adam Shatz, W.G. Runciman, Richard Gott, Margret Powell-Joss, Orna Neumann, Augustus Young, David Mason
Slavoj Žižek: Stalin applauded too
Sean Wilsey: Rats!
- Rats: A Year with New York’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan Buy this book
Peter Clarke: The Treasury View
- Keynes and His Critics: Treasury Responses to the Keynesian Revolution 1925-46 edited by G.C. Peden Buy this book
Frank Kermode on Harold Nicolson
Terry Castle remembers Susan Sontag
Denis Donoghue on James Clarence Mangan
- James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings edited by Sean Ryder Buy this book
- The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan: Prose 1832-39 edited by Jacques Chuto, Peter Van der Kamp and Augustine Martin
- The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan: Prose 1840-82 edited by Jacques Chuto, Peter Van der Kamp and Augustine Martin
- James Clarence Mangan: Poems edited by David Wheatley Buy this book
- Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan edited by Jacques Chuto, Rudolf Holzapfel and Peter Van der Kamp
Paul Davis: Networking in 18th-century London
- Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750 by Christine Gerrard Buy this book
Conor Gearty on intercept evidence and terrorism trials
Nicholas Howe: Ippolito d’Este’s excesses
- The Cardinal’s Hat: Money, Ambition and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court by Mary Hollingsworth Buy this book
Peter Campbell on Joseph Beuys and Jannis Kounellis
Kitty Hauser: The motorist who first saw England
- In Search of H.V. Morton by Michael Bartholomew
Katharine Fletcher on the obstacles to seeking asylum
Andrew Berry: Proto-Darwinism
- Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist by Hervé le Guyader, translated by Marjorie Grene Buy this book
Wyatt Mason: Bedtime stories for adults
James Wood: Tales from Michigan
Christopher Prendergast: Piss where you like
Contributors
Andrew Berry teaches evolutionary biology at Harvard.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com
Peter Clarke’s book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Indian independence in August.
Abi Curtis, a PhD student at Sussex and the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, is working on her first poetry collection.
Paul Davis teaches in the English Department at University College London.
Denis Donoghue teaches English, Irish and American literature at New York University. His recent books include Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot (2000) and The American Classics (2005).
Sheila Fitzpatrick teaches at the University of Chicago. She is the editor (with Stuart Macintyre) of Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian History and Politics.
Katharine Fletcher contributed to Asylum Voices, a report for the Churches’ Commission for Racial Justice. She has been on the staff of the LRB for the past year and is due to take up a post at the New Left Review.
Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at the LSE, has written a number of books on terrorism and human rights.
Kitty Hauser is writing a book for Granta about the landscape archaeologist O.G.S. Crawford, to be called Bloody Old Britain. She is currently Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Nicholas Howe, whose latest book is Home and Homelessness in the Medieval and Renaissance World, teaches at Berkeley.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Wyatt Mason is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. His translation of Rimbaud’s works is published by Scribner.
Christopher Prendergast is a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and was the general editor of the Penguin Proust.
Sean Wilsey is the author of Oh the Glory of It All, a memoir, and the editor, with Matt Weiland, of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, which will be published in the US in September.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.
