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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 23 · 1 December 2005
Colm Tóibín: The Dangers of a Priestly Education
- The Ferns Report by Francis Murphy, Helen Buckley and Laraine Joyce
Jim Harper, Neil Forster, Barry Inder, Keith Flett, Anna Berger, Hilde Bojer, Chris Campbell
Matthew Kelly: Myths of 1916
- Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion by Charles Townshend
Tim Parks: Surrender by Gondola
- The Siege of Venice by Jonathan Keates
James Meek: Ivan the Terrible
- Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia by Isabel de Madariaga Buy this book
Adam Phillips on Bret Easton Ellis
- Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Thomas Jones: Is it just me?
Curtis Sittenfeld on Sean Wilsey’s memoir
Craig Clunas: Art of the Emperors
Isaac Land: Nelson the Populist
Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Lytton Strachey’s letters
Andy Clark: The Birth of the Computer
- Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker edited by Christof Teuscher Buy this book
Andrew Saint: Pre-Raphaelite Houses
- Philip Webb: Pioneer of Arts and Crafts Architecture by Sheila Kirk Buy this book
Peter Campbell: Why Trees Matter
- The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
Jeremy Harding: Among the Arsonists
Contributors
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Andy Clark holds the Chair in logic and metaphysics at Edinburgh. His latest book is Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence.
Craig Clunas is professor of the history of art at Oxford. His most recent book is Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Matthew Kelly lectures in history at the University of Southampton. His first book, The Fenian Ideal and Irish Nationalism 1882-1916, came out this year.
Isaac Land teaches history at Indiana State University. He is writing a book to be entitled Astonish’d Ocean: Sailors and Modernity.
James Meek’s novel We Are Now Beginning Our Descent was published in February. The People’s Act of Love won the Ondaatje Prize.
Tim Parks teaches literary translation at IULM University in Milan and is the author of Translating Style, an analysis of Italian translations of British Modernists. A collection of essays, The Fighter, is published this month.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacy, written with Leo Bersani, is due in April. Penguin have just reissued his first book, about Donald Winnicott.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London.
Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of a novel, Prep, published by Picador, which was reviewed by Jessica Olin in the issue of 6 October. She lives in Philadelphia.
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.
Jenny Turner’s novel, The Brainstorm, is published by Cape.
Robert VanderMolen lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Breath appeared in 2000.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English at Yale. Her new book is Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.
