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Jeremy Harding

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.

Selected bibliography

  • Mother Country (2006)  Buy this book
  • Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Jeremy Harding and John Sturrock (2004)  Buy this book
  • The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man’s Gate (2000)
  • Small Wars, Small Mercies (1993)
  • Modern French Philosophy by Vincent Descombes, translated by Jeremy Harding and Lorna Scott Fox (1981)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content In Order of Rank · 8 May 2008

  • Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond  Buy this book
  • Journal 1942-44 by Hélène Berr

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding on Commemoration · 6 March 2008

Disaffiliate, Reaffiliate, Kill Again · 7 February 2008

  • Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography by Régis Debray, translated by John Howe  Buy this book

Short Cuts: Embedded in Iraq · 29 November 2007

subscriber-only content Praise for the Hands · 18 October 2007

Through the Trapdoor · 19 July 2007

Sarko, Ségo & Co. · 26 April 2007

It Migrates to Them · 8 March 2007

At Quai Branly: Jeremy Harding on Jacques Chirac’s museum · 4 January 2007

Short Cuts: Shot At Dawn · 30 November 2006

Jeremy Harding goes to Beirut to meet the novelist Elias Khoury · 16 November 2006

Short Cuts: Blair’s comedy turns · 7 September 2006

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding on Spook Fiction · 3 August 2006

The Habit of War · 20 July 2006

  • I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
  • Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at War edited by Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Martin Plaut
  • Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa edited by Robert Rotberg

Behind the Sandwall · 23 February 2006

  • Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa’s Last Colony? by Toby Shelley  Buy this book

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding on the benefits of self-censorship · 23 February 2006

Diary from Paris · 1 December 2005

subscriber-only content Mother One, Mother Two · 31 March 2005

subscriber-only content Take out all the adjectives · 6 May 2004

  • New Collected Poems by George Oppen, edited by Michael Davidson

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding considers France’s role in Rwanda · 6 May 2004

What to Wear to School · 19 February 2004

subscriber-only content Fleeing the Mother Tongue · 9 October 2003

  • Rimbaud Complete edited by Wyatt Mason
  • Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud, edited by Martin Sorrell
  • L'Art de Rimbaud by Michel Murat
  • Arthur Rimbaud by Jean-Jacques Lefrère
  • Arthur Rimbaud: Presence of an Enigma by Jean-Luc Steinmetz, edited by Jon Graham
  • Rimbaud by Graham Robb

subscriber-only content Humanitarian Art · 21 August 2003

  • Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag  Buy this book
  • Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics by David Levi Strauss

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding on France’s foreign policy · 3 April 2003

subscriber-only content Old Europe · 20 February 2003

  • Indictment at The Hague: The Milosevic Regime and the Crimes of the Balkan Wars by Norman Cigar and Paul Williams
  • Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia by Brendan Simms
  • Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo by Fred Abrahams
  • Milosevic: A Biography by Adam LeBor

Afternoonishness · 2 January 2003

  • Madcap: The Half-Life of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s Lost Genius by Tim Willis

Call me Ahab · 31 October 2002

  • Moby-Dick, or, The Whale by Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker
  • Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live in by C.L.R. James
  • Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival by Clare Spark
  • Lucchesi and the Whale by Frank Lentricchia

The Great Unleashing · 25 July 2002

  • Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel, translated by Anthony F. Roberts

subscriber-only content Anxiety in the Dordogne · 9 May 2002

The Late Jonas Savimbi · 21 March 2002

At the Barbican: Pilger pictures · 23 August 2001

Short Cuts: Milosevic is delivered to the Hague · 19 July 2001

At the British Museum: The African Galleries · 10 May 2001

At the Royal Academy: Botticelli · 5 April 2001

  • Botticelli's Dante

subscriber-only content The Groom Stripped Bare by His Suitor · 4 January 2001

  • Lennon Remembers by Jann Wenner

Europe’s War · 29 April 1999

Kosovo’s Big Men · 4 February 1999

subscriber-only content Delirium · 30 July 1998

  • Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl
  • A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Mark Treharne

Best Remain Seated · 1 January 1998

  • Kenya by Hugh Finlay and Geoff Crowther
  • Borneo by Robert Pelton Young
  • Asia's Top Dive Sites edited by Fiona Nichols and Michael Stachels
  • South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland by Jon Murray et al
  • Southern Africa by Richard Cox
  • The World's Most Dangerous Places by Robert Pelton Young
  • South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland by Barbara McCrea et al
  • The Good Honeymoon Guide by Lucy Horne
  • Amnesty International Report 1997
  • Morocco by Barnaby Rogerson

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive The Uninvited · 3 February 2000

 not available in archive A State of One’s Own · 19 August 1999

 not available in archive No One Leaves Her Place in Line · 7 May 1998

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