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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 9 · 5 May 2005
James Meek: The Tale of the Tube
- The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City For Ever by Christian Wolmar Buy this book
Hilary Fanning, Paul Taylor, Chris Purnell, Liz Willis, Katharine Fletcher, Harvey Francis, Ana María Sánchez-Arce, David Dyzenhaus, Fiona Allen, Robert Brain
Michael Byers picks at à la carte multilateralism
Tom Nairn challenges Hardt and Negri
Andrew O’Hagan: If something happens to me . . .
Maurice Keen on the diabolical Sir John Hawkwood
- Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders Buy this book
Thomas Jones fails to see The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Nick Laird: A Week in Mid-Ulster
Peter Clarke examines the anti-establishment establishment Jo Grimond
- Liberal Lion: Jo Grimond, a Political Life by Peter Barberis Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Like a badly iced cake
John Sutherland on the pushiness of young men in a hurry
- Publisher by Tom Maschler Buy this book
- British Book Publishing as a Business since the 1960s by Eric de Bellaigue Buy this book
- Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane by Jeremy Lewis
John Mullan: How caricature can be sharp perception
- The One v. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel by Alex Woloch Buy this book
Joanna Kavenna steers through Tim Parks’s Rapids
Daniel Soar on Svetislav Basara’s fictions
- Chinese Letter by Svetislav Basara, translated by Ana Lucic Buy this book
Moustafa Bayoumi: In Beirut’s Tent City
Contributors
Moustafa Bayoumi teaches English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He co-edited The Edward Said Reader and is working on a book to be called How Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Dispatches from Arab America.
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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.
Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes, a translation of Sophocles’ Antigone, is out in paperback from Faber.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule is published by Viking. She currently holds a writing fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge.
Maurice Keen is an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, where he was tutor in medieval history from 1961 to 2000. His books include Chivalry (1984) and Origins of the English Gentleman (2002).
Stephen Knight is the author of two collections of poems, Flowering Limbs and Dream City Cinema, and of Mr Schnitzel, a novel.
Nick Laird’s second collection of poems, On Purpose, is due in August. He lives in Rome.
James Meek’s novel We Are Now Beginning Our Descent was published in February. The People’s Act of Love won the Ondaatje Prize.
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.
Tom Nairn is a researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, concerned with nationalism and the political and cultural effects of globalisation.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
