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Contents
Vol. 28 No. 24 · 14 December 2006
John Lanchester on Conrad and Barbara Black
- Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge by Tom Bower
Donald Jowett, John Black, Sandor Vaci, David Craig, Malcolm Deas, Isobel Grundy, Sabah Salih, David Wootton, Steven Shapin, Kim Phillips-Fein, Peter Lewis, John Sabapathy, Brian Tilbury, Adam Thorpe
Ian Hacking: Transplants
- Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies and the Transformed Self by Lesley Sharp Buy this book
Peter Mair on the Netherlands
Hugh Pennington on polonium
John Bossy on why Christopher Marlowe was probably not a spy
Colin Kidd: Jacobites
- 1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion by Daniel Szechi Buy this book
Paul Myerscough: Simply Botiful
Paul Laity: Hanging out at River Cottage HQ
Gary Indiana: Nymphomania, antic incest and metaphysical torment
- Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker edited by Amy Scholder, Carla Harryman and Avital Ronell Buy this book
Thomas Jones on Alan Furst
- The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
Stefan Collini on Kingsley Amis
Helen Cooper: The maverick poetry of John Skelton
- John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak by Jane Griffiths Buy this book
Michael Wood watches The Prestige
Simon Schaffer on Pierre Simon Laplace
- Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist by Roger Hahn Buy this book
Mary Beard on set in Tunisia
Contributors
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics. He teaches at Cambridge.
Helen Cooper is a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge and the author of The English Romance in Time.
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Gary Indiana has written several novels, plays and works of non-fiction. He is preparing a study of Andy Warhol.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.
Paul Laity edited the Left Book Club Anthology. Formerly an editor at the London Review, he now works at the Guardian.
John Lanchester’s book about the financial crisis, Whoops, will be published by the Penguin Press, once he’s finished writing it.
Tom Lowenstein’s latest collection is Ancestors and Species: New and Selected Ethnographic Poetry.
Peter Mair teaches comparative politics at Leiden University and the European University Institute in Italy.
Paul Myerscough is an editor at the London Review.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Simon Schaffer teaches the history of science at Cambridge. His collection of essays on inquiry and invention from the Renaissance to early industrialisation, co-edited with Lissa Roberts and Peter Dear, is due next year.
Lorna Scott Fox’s most recent translation is Pablo Picasso-Gertrude Stein: Correspondence.
John Stammers’s latest collection, Stolen Love Behaviour, was a Poetry Book Society Choice. He is convenor of the British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Conference.
Michael Wood’s books include America in the Movies, The Magician’s Doubts, The Road to Delphi and, most recently, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. He teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton.
