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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 8 · 21 April 2005
David Runciman: Selling the NHS
- Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Healthcare by Dennis Thompson Buy this book
- NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Healthcare by Allyson Pollock Buy this book
- Brown’s Britain by Robert Peston Buy this book
Martin Schifino, Oliver Streets, Bernard Crick, Christopher Small, Natasha Carver, Alex Simpson, Phil Edwards, Marilyn Francis, Gerrard Roots, Alan Bernheimer, Mike Killingworth, Christopher Prendergast
Colm Tóibín: The Ruthless Truman Capote
- The Complete Stories by Truman Capote Buy this book
- Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote edited by Gerald Clarke Buy this book
Retort on the takeover of Iraq
Michael Wood: The Project of Sanity
Tessa Hadley on Marilynne Robinson
Thomas Jones hunts down Basingstoke’s Paisleyite
Frank Kermode: Ishiguro’s Nightmares
John Barrell finds a hero for Howard
- The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for a Free Press by Ben Wilson Buy this book
R.W. Johnson on the other crooked Reggie
- Reggie: The Life of Reginald Maudling by Lewis Baston Buy this book
Peter Campbell: The ultimate in controlled habitat-imitation
Hugh Pennington advises soap and water
- Return of the Black Death: The World’s Greatest Serial Killer by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan Buy this book
- The Great Plague: The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year by Lloyd Moote and Dorothy Moote Buy this book
- Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World’s Most Dangerous Disease by Wendy Orent
Adam Kuper investigates police rituals
Anne Hollander: Fascist Fashions
- Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich by Irene Guenther Buy this book
- Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt by Eugenia Paulicelli Buy this book
Eric Hobsbawm: Gorbachev, My Hero
Contributors
John Barrell has coedited, with Jon Mee, an eight-volume edition of political trials of the 1790s for Pickering and Chatto. He teaches at the University of York.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Tessa Hadley teaches at Bath Spa University. A collection of stories, Sunstroke, and a novel, The Master Bedroom, were published last year.
Eric Hobsbawm’s most recent book is Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism.
Anne Hollander wrote the text for Woman in the Mirror, Richard Avedon’s last collection of photographs. She is now at work on a study of literary clothing.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Adam Kuper, whose most recent book is The Reinvention of Primitive Society, is a professor of anthropology at Brunel University.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Retort, a ‘gathering of antagonists to capital and empire’, is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This essay was written by Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts. Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War, which deals with many aspects of post-September 11 global politics, is out from Verso.
David Runciman’s new book is Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
Matthew Sweeney’s most recent collection is Black Moon.
Hsien Min Toh has published two collections of poetry, Iambus and The Enclosure of Love. He lives in Singapore.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
