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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 17 · 1 September 2005
Neal Ascherson: The Cockburns of Cork
John Palatella, Menachem Kellner, Geoffrey Chandler, Humphrey Cooper George Amory, Robert Kroninger, Edward Luttwak, Derek Robinson, Richard Morris, Simon Skinner
Susan Pedersen: The fear of needles
- Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 by Nadja Durbach Buy this book
Helen Vendler: How not to do Dante
Saree Makdisi on the withdrawal from Gaza
Sheila Fitzpatrick: A Leninist version of Soviet history
- The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin, edited by Gregory Elliott Buy this book
R.W. Johnson reads a spy’s diary
- The Guy Liddell Diaries: Vol. I 1939-42 edited by Nigel West Buy this book
Christopher Tayler on Somerset Maugham
Thomas Jones: Evolution versus Metamorphosis
Elizabeth Cook: Poetry wrested from mud
- The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg edited by Vivien Noakes Buy this book
Theo Tait: Beyond the Barnes persona
Dinah Birch: the man behind Pan
- Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of J.M. Barrie by Lisa Chaney Buy this book
Peter Campbell on sketching out of doors
James Hamilton-Paterson faces north
Steven Shapin on the banality of moon-talk
- Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith Buy this book
Andy Beckett: PiL, Wire et al
- Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-84 by Simon Reynolds Buy this book
Benjamin Markovits likes Austin weird
Contributors
Neal Ascherson’s books include The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea. He is an honorary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Andy Beckett’s Pinochet in Piccadilly is out in paperback. He is writing a book about Britain in the 1970s.
Dinah Birch is the author of Our Victorian Education. She teaches at Liverpool University and is the general editor of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Elizabeth Cook edited Keats’s Major Works for Oxford. Achilles, a work of fiction, is published by Methuen. She lives in East London.
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.
James Hamilton-Paterson lives in Italy. His most recent novel, Cooking with Fernet Branca is published by Faber.
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.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Saree Makdisi teaches English at UCLA. He is the author of William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s, and is working on a book to be called Palestine without a Road Map.
Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.
Susan Pedersen teaches British and European history and political thought at Columbia University.
Christopher Reid’s poetry is published by Faber. Katerina Brac is out in paperback.
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.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Helen Vendler has written books on Yeats, Herbert, Keats, Stevens and Heaney. The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets appeared in 1997.
