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Contemporary Review
Founded in 1866, Contemporary Review is a scholarly journal published quarterly. Contemporary Review Company Ltd. owns and publishes this journal, and its editorial headquarters is in Oxford, United Kingdom.Contemporary Review covers a number of topics, including politics, international affairs, literature, art and art history. Its region and its audience are international. Dr. Richard Mullen is the editor; Dr. Alex Kerr is the managing editor; Dr. James Munson is the literary editor; and Anselma Bruce is the associate editor. James LoGerfo, Robin Findlay and Charles Foster are the editorial advisers.
Articles from Vol. 284, No. 1661, June
Charles Avison: Discovering an Eighteenth-Century Musician
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A BRIEF paragraph in the Newcastle Journal of 12 May, 1770 marked the passing of 'the most important English concerto composer of the eighteenth century and an original and influential writer on music': Thursday night died here Mr Charles Avison,...
Iraq: The Interim Balance Part I
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IRAQ is still a volatile and dangerous place. Its principal cities and provincial towns are awash with armed militias and foreign insurgents. Violent crime is endemic. What was, to all intents and purposes, a secular state is on the way to becoming...
Is Bob Dylan an Artist?
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BOB DYLAN invented a new creative medium when he fused poetical lyrics and rock 'n' roll to form what became known as 'rock music'. It was The Beatles who made rock accessible to the masses, but the idea of marrying significant words with popular music...
Normandy: 1066, 1944, and 2004
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NOS a Gulielmo victi victoris patriam liberavimus: the terse elegance of the Latin inscription outside the British War Cemetery in Bayeux carries us across a millennium of turbulent history from the Normandy of 1066 to the Normandy of 1944. We who...
The Decline of the Christian Church in Australia
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'I AM not a rapist'. May 8, 2003 was the first time in Australian history that a Governor-General (who was formerly an Anglican Archbishop) had had to make such a denial. Unbeknown to the Australian population, the Governor-General had been locked...
The Indo-Pakistan Peace Process and the Kashmir Issue
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THE Indian and Pakistani leaders are making efforts to improve relations to bring lasting peace to the subcontinent. President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has stated that it was time for Pakistan to look for a realistic solution to the Kashmir dispute....
The Rape of Slave Boys in Sudan
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AS HE began speaking, Majok lowered his small cocoa-coloured eyes and stared intensely at the ground. It was the summer of 2002 and I had just flown thousands of miles deep into the war zone of Sudan to interview former slaves. Majok, then 12, tightly...
The Word on the Arab Street
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IT is going to be a hot summer in the Middle East. There is always foment and ferment, fuelled by angry talk in the mosques and the cafes, but this is something different. There are some other important mutterings--the slightly smug 'I told you so'...
The World of Paperbacks
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PIMLICO has recently published the first paperback edition of Virginia Woolf's A Passionate Apprentice ([pounds sterling]16.00) which contains her early journals (1897-1909) and her short journal entry entitled Carlyle's House and Other Sketches. The...
Why Atheism Is Unscientific
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A 'THINK TANK' closely connected to the Labour Government has advocated that atheism be included in the Religious Education curriculum that is studied in British schools. Central to the argument of this group is the idea that atheism is rational and...
