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Contents
Vol. 30 No. 3 · 7 February 2008
Charles Nicholl: Joe the Ripper
- The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath by Charles van Onselen Buy this book
Augustus Young, Andreas Wesemann, W.G. Runciman, George Poles, Michael Goldsmith, Sean Gallagher, John Sutherland, Philip Booth
David Runciman on the British Constitution
Jeremy Harding: Régis Debray
- Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography by Régis Debray, translated by John Howe Buy this book
Henry Siegman: Breaching the Barrier
Jonathan Raban on James Meek
John Kerrigan on Louis MacNeice
- Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems edited by Peter McDonald Buy this book
- Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems edited by Michael Longley Buy this book
- I Crossed the Minch by Louis MacNeice Buy this book
- The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography by Louis MacNeice, edited by E.R. Dodds Buy this book
Frank Kermode: Auden’s Prose
- The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Vol. III: Prose, 1949-55 edited by Edward Mendelson Buy this book
Ferdinand Mount on Derek Jackson
- As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of Derek Jackson by Simon Courtauld Buy this book
Daniel Soar on the Arts Council
Peter Thonemann: Pattison’s Scholarship
- Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don by H.S. Jones Buy this book
Craig Clunas: Missionaries in China
- Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 by Liam Matthew Brockey Buy this book
Peter Campbell: From Russia
Eamon Duffy: Bloody Mary’s Church
Steven Shapin on the Dutch East India Company
- Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold Cook Buy this book
Frank Close: Gravitational Waves
- Travelling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves by Daniel Kennefick Buy this book
Lara Pawson: African Oil
- Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson Buy this book
- Oil Wars edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said Buy this book
- Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil by John Ghazvinian Buy this book
Alison Light: In Portsmouth
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Frank Close, who teaches at Exeter College, Oxford, is the author of The Void.
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.
Eamon Duffy is president of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570 is out from Yale.
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.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
John Kerrigan is a professor of English at Cambridge. Archipelagic English: Literature, History and Politics 1603-1707 is due this month.
Jean de La Fontaine
Alison Light teaches English at Newcastle. Mrs Woolf and the Servants came out last summer.
Ferdinand Mount’s Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes is out soon.
Charles Nicholl’s most recent book is The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street.
Lara Pawson is the writing fellow at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand. She is working on a book about Angola.
Gordon Pirie taught for many years at Winchester College, where he was head of the English Department; he died in 1984. His translations of La Fontaine will be published by Hesperus.
Jonathan Raban’s most recent books are the essay collection My Holy War and the novel Surveillance.
David Runciman’s Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell will be published by Princeton.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Henry Siegman is director of the US/Middle East Project and a research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Programme at SOAS. He was a senior fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations from 1994 to 2006.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Peter Thonemann teaches ancient history at Wadham College, Oxford.
