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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 24 · 15 December 2005
Julian Barnes salutes George Braque
- Georges Braque: A Life by Alex Danchev Buy this book
- Landscape in Provence 1750-1920 Montréal Musée des Beaux Arts
- Derain: The London Paintings Courtauld Institute
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Andrew Nathan, Valentin Lyubarsky, Simon Cockshutt
Liam McIlvanney on Magda Szabó
Ilan Pappe: Will Peretz make a difference?
Bruce Cumings: Fantasies of Korea
- Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley Martin
- Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea by Jasper Becker Buy this book
Henry Day on Ibn Battutah’s travels
- The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Maurice Keen: Knightly Pursuits
- A Knight’s Own Book of Chivalry by Geoffroi de Charny, translated by Elspeth Kennedy Buy this book
- The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting by Edward, Duke of York Buy this book
Rosemary Hill on Angelica Kauffman
- Miss Angel: The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman by Angelica Goodden Buy this book
Peter Campbell on the Regent Street lights
Susan Eilenberg: The Detachment of Muriel Spark
Michael Hofmann: Zagajewski’s Charm
- Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh, Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry Buy this book
- A Defence of Ardour: Essays by Adam Zagajewski
Adam Mars-Jones: Protest Dance Pop
- Plat du Jour by Matthew Herbert
Hugh Pennington: Staphylococcus aureus
Tim Flannery: When the British met the Australians
- Dancing with Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians 1788 by Inga Clendinnen
Jenny Diski: The Je Ne Sais Quoi
Contributors
Julian Barnes is the author of, among other books, Arthur and George and Nothing to Be Frightened of.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Bruce Cumings teaches in the history department at the University of Chicago, and is the author of North Korea: Another Country.
Henry Day is writing his doctoral dissertation on Lucan, Seneca and the sublime at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was only recently an intern at the LRB.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about anthropomorphism; her new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published next month by Virago.
Susan Eilenberg teaches in the English department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Tim Flannery is the director of the South Australian Museum and chair of the state’s Science Council. He is the editor of The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier (2000).
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, has just appeared in paperback.
Michael Hofmann’s Selected Poems came out in the spring. He has recently been a poet in residence at the Queensland Poetry Festival.
Maurice Keen is an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He has written a number of books on medieval subjects, including Chivalry and Origins of the English Gentleman.
Liam McIlvanney is the author of Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late 18th-Century Scotland, which won the Saltire First Book Award in 2002. He teaches at the University of Aberdeen.
Adam Mars-Jones is the author of The Waters of Thirst, a novel, and Blind Bitter Happiness, a collection of essays.
Ilan Pappe teaches in the political science department at Haifa University and is the chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Israel.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Robin Robertson’s Swithering won the 2006 Forward Prize. His translation of Medea was published by Vintage this year.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
