John Sturrock

John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.

In the LRB Archive:

• Short Cuts: Blair’s Convictions · 24 May 2007

• Short Cuts: Plain Sailing · 26 April 2007

• Short Cuts: Don't Bother to Read · 22 March 2007

• Short Cuts: John Reid tries to out-Blunkett Blunkett · 2 November 2006

• How stupid people are: Flaubert · 7 September 2006

  • Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Mark Polizzotti
  • Flaubert: A Life by Frederick Brown

• A bas les chefs!: Jules Vallès · 9 February 2006

  • The Child by Jules Vallès, translated by Douglas Parmée

• The London Bombs: in Bloomsbury · 21 July 2005

• Short Cuts: football slang · 2 December 2004

• Short Cuts: Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy · 7 October 2004

• Short Cuts: reading Butler · 5 August 2004

• Short Cuts: A Bath in the Dock · 18 December 2003

• Short Cuts: Blair’s wars · 6 November 2003

• Call Her Daisy-Ray: Accents and Attitudes · 11 September 2003

  • Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol by Lynda Mugglestone

• Short Cuts: Spun and Unspun · 7 August 2003

• Short Cuts: Iraq’s Invisible Weapons · 19 June 2003

• One Herring in a Shoal: Raymond Queneau · 8 May 2003

  • Oeuvres complètes: Tome II: Romans I by Raymond Queneau, edited by Henri Godard

• Short Cuts: on Bullshit · 17 April 2003

• Short Cuts: Philosophical Quick Fixes · 31 October 2002

• Rongorongo: The Rosetta Stone · 19 September 2002

  • Keys of Egypt by Lesley Atkins and Roy Atkins
  • The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics by Robert Solé and Dominique Valbelle, translated by Steven Rendall
  • Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson
  • The Man who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris by Andrew Robinson

• Short Cuts: The Evil List · 25 April 2002

• I resume and I sum up: Robbe Grillet’s Return · 21 March 2002

  • La Reprise by Alain Robbe-Grillet

• Short Cuts: Editions de minuit · 14 January 2002

• Short Cuts: at the Test Match · 6 September 2001

• The Man from Nowhere: Burying André Malraux · 9 August 2001

  • André Malraux: Une Vie by Olivier Todd

• Latent Prince · 22 March 2001

  • Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity: Journeys between Cultures by Charles Forsdick

• Short Cuts: books and balls · 8 February 2001

• 6/4 he won’t score 20 on cricket in 18th century England · 7 September 2000

  • Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in 18th-Century England by David Underdown

• Short Cuts · 20 July 2000

• Give me calf’s tears · 11 November 1999

  • George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large by Belinda Jack

• Hound of Golden Imbeciles: Homage to the Oulipo · 29 April 1999

  • Oulipo Compendium edited by Harry Matthews and Alastair Brotchie

• Agitated Neurons on Michel Houellebecq · 21 January 1999

  • Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Paul Hammond
  • Les Particules élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq

• The Great Accumulator pads up with W.G. Grace · 20 August 1998

  • W.G. Grace: A Life by Simon Rae
  • W.G.'s Birthday Party by David Kynaston

• Le pauvre Sokal: the Social Text Hoax · 16 July 1998

  • Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont

• Lights by the Ton on Jean Echenoz · 18 June 1998

  • Lake by Jean Echenoz, translated by Guido Waldman
  • Un An by Jean Echenoz

• Monsieur Apollo · 13 November 1997

  • Victor Hugo by Graham Robb

• Why the Tortoise Lost · 18 September 1997

  • Bergson: Biographie by Philippe Soulez and Frédéric Worms

• ‘I’m going to slash it!’ · 20 February 1997

  • Oeuvres complètes by Nathalie Sarraute, edited by Jean-Yves Tadié

• Donald’s Duck · 22 August 1996

  • Bradman by Charles Williams

• ˆ · 4 January 1996

  • L’Accent du souvenir by Bernard Cerquiglini

• Horsey, Horsey · 16 November 1995

  • The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco, translated by James Fentress
  • Mimologics by Gérard Genette, translated by Thaïs Morgan

• Bit by Bit · 22 December 1994

  • Roland Barthes: A Biography by Louis-Jean Calvet, translated by Sarah Wykes

• E-less in Gaza · 10 November 1994

  • A Void by Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair

• Something Royal · 8 September 1994

  • Le Premier homme by Albert Camus

• A Passion for Pears · 7 July 1994

  • Balzac by Graham Robb
  • Honoré de Balzac by Roger Pierrot
  • César Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Robin Buss

• Wasp in a Bottle · 10 February 1994

  • Charles Sanders Peirce by Joseph Brent
  • The Esssential Peirce: Vol. I edited by Nathan Houser and Christian Koesel

• Doing what doesn’t come naturally · 16 December 1993

  • French Lessons: A Memoir by Alice Kaplan

• May he roar with pain! · 27 May 1993

  • Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence translated by Francis Steegmuller and Barbara Bray
  • Correspondence. Tome III: janvier 1859 – décembre 1868 by Gustave Flaubert, edited by Jean Bruneau
  • Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Francis Steegmuller
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Geoffrey Wall

• The Paris Strangler · 17 December 1992

  • ‘L’ Avenir dure longtemps’ suivi de ‘Les Faits’: Autobiographies by Louis Althusser
  • Louis Althusser: Une biographie. Vol. I: La Formation du mythe by Yann Moulier Boutang

• The man who wrote for the ‘Figaro’ · 25 June 1992

  • Selected Letters: Vol. III, 1910-1917 by Marcel Proust, edited by Philip Kolb, translated by Terence Kilmartin
  • Correspondance de Marcel Proust: Tome XVIII, 191 edited by Philip Kolb
  • Correspondance de Marcel Proust: Tome XIX, 1920 edited by Philip Kolb
  • Correspondance de Marcel Proust: Tome XX, 1921 edited by Philip Kolb

• Above the Consulting-Room · 26 March 1992

  • Le Séminaire, Vols VIII and XVII by Jacques Lacan
  • Lacan by Malcolm Bowie
  • Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan’s Dislocation of Psychoanalysis by Samuel Weber

• Rhino-Breeder · 24 May 1990

  • Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977 edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew Bruccoli

• English Words and French Authors · 8 February 1990

  • A New History of French Literature edited by Denis Hollier

• Doctor No · 2 February 1989

  • Journey to the end of the night by Louis Ferdinand Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim
  • La Vie de Céline by Frédéric Vitoux

• Sabotage · 31 March 1988

  • The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection by Rodolphe Gasché
  • Derrida by Christopher Norris
  • The Truth in Painting by Jacques Derrida, translated by Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod
  • The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Jacques Derrida, translated by Alan Bass
  • The Archaeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac by Jacques Derrida, translated by John Leavey

• Champion of Words · 15 October 1987

  • Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel by Michel Foucault, translated by Charles Ruas
  • Raymond Roussel: Life, Death and Works. Essays and stories by various hands

• Darkest Peru · 19 February 1987

  • The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa
  • The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Randolph Hogan

• Goodbye to Borges · 7 August 1986

  • Atlas by Jorge Luis Borges, in collaboration with Maria Kodama, translated by Anthony Kerrigan
  • Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Eliot Weinberger

• Jamboree · 20 February 1986

  • Handbook of Russian Literature edited by Victor Terras
  • Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time by Roman Jakobson, edited by Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy
  • Historic Structures: The Prague School Project 1928-1946 by F.W. Galan
  • Mikhail Bakhtin by Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist
  • The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics by M.M. Bakhtin and P.M. Medvedev, translated by Albert Wehrle
  • Dialogues between Roman Jakobson and Krystyna Pomorska translated by Christian Hubert
  • The Dialogical Principle by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Wlad Godzich
  • Rabelais and his World by Mikhail Bakhtin, translated by Hélène Iswolsky

• Private Sartre · 7 February 1985

  • War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War 1939-40 by Jean-Paul Sartre and Quentin Hoare

• Where structuralism comes from · 2 February 1984

  • Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, translated by Roy Harris
  • Semiotic Perspectives by Sandor Hervey

• On the Verge of Collapse · 19 August 1982

  • The Siren’s Song by Maurice Blanchot, edited by Gabriel Josipovici, translated by Sacha Rabinovich

• Proust Regained · 19 March 1981

  • Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin

• Cucurbits · 3 July 1980

  • Nature and Language by Ralf Norrman and Jon Haarberg

• Ego’s End · 22 November 1979

  • Psychoanalytic Politics by Sherry Turkle

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