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Contents
Vol. 29 No. 4 · 22 February 2007
M.F. Burnyeat: The Truth about Pythagoras
- Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching and Influence by Christoph Riedweg, translated by Steven Rendall
- Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History by Charles Kahn Buy this book
John Richmond, Michael Williams, Anders Stephanson, Gerard McBurney, Martin Harris, Cleveland Moffett, George Hornby, Jeremy Harte, Paul Driver
Michael Wood on Richard Powers
Peter Hallward speaks to Haiti's former president
Peter Campbell on Anselm Kiefer
Patrick Cockburn reports from Iraq
Glen Bowersock: Rome versus Jerusalem
- Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilisations by Martin Goodman Buy this book
Tom Shippey on medieval schooling
- Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England by Nicholas Orme Buy this book
Thomas Jones: Caesar’s Birthday
Patrick Collinson on John Wyclif
Robert Crawford on George Mackay Brown
- George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie Fergusson
- The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown edited by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray Buy this book
Rosemary Hill on Beatrix Potter
- Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas: Dogs and Scholarship
Yonatan Mendel at the Herzliya Conference
Contributors
Glen Bowersock is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
M.F. Burnyeat has returned to Robinson College, Cambridge after ten years as senior research fellow in philosophy at All Souls. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato, among other books.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent at the Independent. His pieces for the London Review and the Independent won this year’s Orwell Prize for Journalism.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Peter Hallward teaches philosophy at Middlesex University. Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment is due this summer. His interview with Aristide appears here in his translation from French.
Rosemary Hill’s biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, which won the James Tait Black biography prize, is now in paperback.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
August Kleinzahler is the author of Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the forthcoming Music: I-LXXIV, Collected Music Writings from Pressed Wafer in Boston.
Yonatan Mendel is completing a PhD on Israeli security and the Arabic language, at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in Cambridge.
Tom Shippey’s edited collection of essays on Grimm’s mythology, The Shadow-Walkers, won the Mythopoeic Society’s 2008 award for scholarship. He is working on a book about death-scenes in Old Norse.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s The Old Way: A Story of the First People, about Kalahari hunter-gatherers, came out last October. She is the author of The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Social Lives of Dogs: The Grace of Canine Company.
Susan Wicks has published five collections of poetry, two novels and a short memoir. De-iced is out now.
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.
