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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 9 · 27 April 2000
Jerry Coyne: There’s more to life than DNA
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
Christopher Hitchens: Saul Bellow keeps his word (sort of)
- Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
Daniel Soar
- The Pillar of Fire by Nikolai Gumilev, translated by Richard McKane
Michael Wood: Woody Allen
- The Unruly Life of Woody Allen by Marion Meade
Katherine Duncan-Jones, Patrick Collinson, Michael Haslam, Frances Wilson, Frances Stonor Saunders, P. Kelly, Thomson Littlefield, Steven Wells, Norman Cantor, George Jones, Charles Swann, Stephen Sedley, S.A. Skinner
Frank Kermode: How Jesus Got His Face
- The Image of Christ edited by Gabriele Finaldi
Maurice Keen: The Hundred Years War
- The Hundred Years War, Vol. II: Trial by Fire by Jonathan Sumption
Steven Shapin
- French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory by Paul Rabinow
John Lanchester: The Rise and Rise of Ian Rankin
- Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin
Peter Clarke
- Stafford Cripps: A Political Life by Simon Burgess
Mary Beard
- The Dons by Noel Annan
- A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L.Rowse by Richard Ollard
K.D. Reynolds
- Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII by Simon Heffer
- A Spirit Undaunted: The Political Role of George VI by Robert Rhodes James
E.S. Turner
- An Innkeeper's Diary by John Fothergill
Anna Vaux: Desire and Susie Orbach
- The Impossibility of Sex by Susie Orbach
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.
Peter Clarke’s book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Indian independence in August.
Jerry Coyne, who teaches at the University of Chicago, is writing a book on the origin of species.
Raymond Friel’s collections of poems include Seeing the River and Renfrewshire in Old Photographs.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
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.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
John Lanchester has been given this year’s E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir, Family Romance, is out in paperback.
Richard Lloyd Parry is the Asia editor of the Times, based in Tokyo. His book about Indonesia and East Timor, In the Time of Madness, is out in paperback.
Glyn Maxwell is the author of Time’s Fool.
Dennis O’Driscoll works for Customs in Dublin. His fifth volume of poems, Weather Permitting, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
K.D. Reynolds’s Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain is published by Oxford.
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.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
C.K. Stead’s Straw into Gold: New and Selected Poems is published by Arc.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
Anna Vaux works on the TLS.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
