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Contents
Vol. 27 No. 1 · 6 January 2005
Helen Cooper, Avi Shlaim, Asher de Bentolila Tlalim, Jacqueline Rose, John Birtwhistle, Charles Glass, James Tiles
Michael Byers: When the Ice Melts
- Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Buy this book
Tim Flannery: In the Coal Hole
Neal Ascherson reports from Ukraine
Uri Avnery: Bush eyes up the Middle East
Frank Kermode watches Pacino’s Merchant of Venice
Michael Wood: Versions of Proust
- In Search of Lost Time: Vol. I: The Way by Swann’s by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by Lydia Davis Buy this book
- In Search of Lost Time: Vol.II: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by James Grieve Buy this book
- In Search of Lost Time: Vol. III: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by Mark Treharne Buy this book
- In Search of Lost Time: Vol. IV: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by John Sturrock Buy this book
- In Search of Lost Time: Vol. V: ‘The Prisoner’ and ‘The Fugitive’ by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by Carol Clark and Peter Collier Buy this book
- In Search of Lost Time: Vol. VI: Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by Ian Patterson Buy this book
- The Proust Project edited by André Aciman
Thomas Jones fails to escape from Colditz
Theo Tait: Tom Wolfe’s Bloody Awful Novel
Dinah Birch on Peter Rushforth’s long-awaited second novel
Eleanor Birne reads Hanif Kureishi reading his father
- My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father by Hanif Kureishi Buy this book
Peter Campbell on ‘Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today’
Miles Taylor: modelling Waterloo
- Wellington’s Smallest Victory: The Duke, the Model Maker and the Secret of Waterloo by Peter Hofschröer Buy this book
Federico Varese: Berlusconi’s underworld connections
- Berlusconi’s Shadow: Crime, Justice and the Pursuit of Power by David Lane
- Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony by Paul Ginsborg Buy this book
Adrian Woolfson searches for the secrets of biological form
- Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi
- Jacob’s Ladder: The History of the Human Genome by Henry Gee
Christopher Turner: the controversial Alfred Kinsey
Contributors
Neal Ascherson’s books include The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea. He is an honorary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Uri Avnery is a former member of the Knesset and a leader of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Dinah Birch is the author of Our Victorian Education. She teaches at Liverpool University and is the general editor of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Eleanor Birne lives in London.
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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).
Jorie Graham’s new collection, Sea Change, will be out in the spring.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Miles Taylor teaches history at the University of York. His life of the Chartist Ernest Jones came out last year.
Christopher Turner’s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America is forthcoming from HarperCollins in Britain and Farrar, Straus in the US.
Federico Varese’s new book, The Russian Mafia, will appear in March. He teaches criminology at Oxford, and is fellow of Linacre College.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Adrian Woolfson is the author of the The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics and Life without Genes: The History and Future of Genomes. He teaches medicine at Clare College, Cambridge.
