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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 24 · 15 December 2005
Julian Barnes salutes George Braque
- Georges Braque: A Life by Alex Danchev
- 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
Peter Campbell on the Regent Street lights
Susan Eilenberg: The Detachment of Muriel Spark
Michael Hofmann: Zagajewski’s Charm
- Selected Poems by Muriel Spark 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’s book on the Sixties – called The Sixties – comes out in July.
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 published by Faber.
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, which won the James Tait Black biography prize, is now in paperback.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
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 teaches at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His first novel, All the Colours of the Town, is out in August.
Adam Mars-Jones is the author of The Waters of Thirst, a novel, and Blind Bitter Happiness, a collection of essays.
Ilan Pappe is chair of the history department at the University of Exeter and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine came out in 2007.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
