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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 21 · 3 November 2005
Sheila Fitzpatrick on Snitching
- Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero by Catriona Kelly Buy this book
Jasper Tomlinson, Klaus Dodds, Jim Lederman, Eric Hobsbawm, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Giancarlo de Vivo, Penelope Crick, John Christensen
Adam Phillips on Edmund White
James Davidson: Captain Cook’s Mistake
- Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins Buy this book
Sara Roy: Trapped in Gaza
Virginia Tilley: The One State Solution
David Garrioch: Making peasants into Frenchmen
- The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Buy this book
Thomas Jones on ‘The Constant Gardener’
Lorraine Daston: The Weather Watchers
- Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology by Katharine Anderson Buy this book
D. Graham Burnett on the power of maps
- Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection by Mark Monmonier Buy this book
Richard Hamblyn explores the ocean floor
- Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea by Helen Rozwadowski Buy this book
Catherine Gallagher on the 18th-century family
- Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture 1748-1818 by Ruth Perry Buy this book
Gillian Bennett on self-impersonation
Fatema Ahmed on P.G. Wodehouse
Daniel Soar on Barry McCrea
Thomas de Waal: War in the North Caucasus
Contributors
Fatema Ahmed works at Granta.
Gillian Bennett’s Bodies: Sex, Violence, Disease and Death in Contemporary Legend is published by Mississippi.
D. Graham Burnett teaches at Princeton. He is the author of Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography and a British El Dorado (2000).
Lorraine Daston, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has written on the history of probability, wonders and scientific objectivity.
James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
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.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Catherine Gallagher is a professor of English at Berkeley. The Body Economic: Life, Death and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel will be published by Princeton.
David Garrioch teaches in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University in Melbourne. His most recent book is The Making of Revolutionary Paris.
Richard Hamblyn’s The Invention of Clouds was shortlisted for the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize. He is a postdoctoral research fellow at Nottingham University.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Kinsella’s most recent book of poems is The New Arcadia.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
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.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Virginia Tilley is currently working at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg. She is the author of The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock.
Thomas de Waal has been covering the Caucasus and Chechnya since 1994, as Caucasus editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London. He is researching a book on the Black Sea.
