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This subject index goes back to the beginning of 1998. Registered subscribers to the print edition of the LRB have access to all articles from the beginning of Volume 23* (2001). Choose a subject from the right-hand column to browse through a full list of available articles.

* Certain articles are unavailable for copyright or other reasons at the request of their authors.

africa

Landeg White: Like What Our Peasants Still Are · 13 May 1999

  • Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes by Stephen Howe

Lewis Nkosi: At the Crossroads Hour · 12 November 1998

  • Chinua Achebe: A Biography by Ezenwa-Ohaeto

Charles van Onselen: Dead but Not Quite Buried · 29 October 1998

Michael Gilsenan: Diary · 1 October 1998

Nuruddin Farah: Country Cousins · 3 September 1998

R.W. Johnson: Rogue’s Paradise · 16 July 1998

  • The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War by Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova

Hilary Mantel: Number One Id · 19 March 1998

  • The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

agriculture

Hugh Pennington: Short Cuts · 21 February 2008

James Buchan: My Hogs · 18 October 2001

Andrew O’Hagan: The End of British Farming · 22 March 2001

Edward Luttwak: Sane Cows, or BSE isn’t the worst of it · 8 February 2001

Hugh Pennington: The English Disease · 14 December 2000

  • The BSE Inquiry by Lord Phillips et al

F.M.L. Thompson: Up Horn, down Corn · 5 March 1998

  • Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day by Joan Thirsk

anthropology

John Borneman: A Scrap of Cloth · 18 December 2008

  • The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore and Politics by Jennifer Heath  Buy this book

James Davidson: Adrift from Locality · 3 November 2005

  • Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins  Buy this book

Adam Kuper: Off the Verandah · 7 October 2004

  • Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist 1884-1920 by Michael Young  Buy this book

James Hamilton-Paterson: Not Altogether Lost · 19 June 2003

  • Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday by Robin Hemley

Adam Kuper: Clever, or even Clever-Clever · 23 May 2002

  • Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life by Stanley Tambiah
  • The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. I: Anthropology and Society by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw
  • The Essential Edmund Leach: Vol. II: Culture and Human Nature by Stephen Hugh-Jones and James Laidlaw

Adam Kuper: Some Flim-Flam with Socks · 3 January 2002

  • Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post by J.D.F. Jones

Robin Fox: Anthropology as it should be · 9 August 2001

  • In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker

Paul Henley: A Generous Quantity of Fat · 2 September 1999

  • Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American South-West by Christy Turner and Jacqueline Turner
  • Cannibalism and the Colonial World edited by Francis Barker and Peter Hulme
  • Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne by Frank Lestringant, translated by Rosemary Morris
  • Chronicles of the Guayakí Indians by Pierre Clastres, translated by Paul Auster

Eric Korn: How far down the dusky bosom? · 26 November 1998

  • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin, edited by Paul Ekman

anti-semitism

Judith Butler: No, it’s not anti-semitic · 21 August 2003

archaeology

Thomas Jones: Short Cuts · 3 February 2005

Kathleen Jamie: Into the Dark · 18 December 2003

Mary Beard: Builder of Ruins · 30 November 2000

  • Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth by J.A. MacGillivray

architecture

Gillian Darley: Man on a Bicycle · 9 April 2009

Peter Campbell: At the Royal Academy · 12 February 2009

Thomas Crow: Balls in Aquaria · 23 October 2008

  • The Judicious Eye: Architecture against the Other Arts by Joseph Rykwert  Buy this book

Peter Campbell: At the Wallace Collection · 25 September 2008

Peter Campbell: In the Park · 31 July 2008

Peter Campbell: At the Door · 19 June 2008

Rosemary Hill: Impervious to Draughts · 22 May 2008

  • The English House by Hermann Muthesius, edited by Dennis Sharp, translated by Janet Seligman and Stewart Spencer  Buy this book

Peter Campbell: Function v. Rhetoric · 10 April 2008

Gillian Darley: See the Sights! · 1 November 2007

  • The Buildings of England: Essex by James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner  Buy this book

Hal Foster: Global Style · 20 September 2007

  • Piano: Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1966-2005 by Philip Jodidio  Buy this book
  • Renzo Piano Building Workshop Vol. IV by Peter Buchanan  Buy this book

Dinah Birch: Very Pointed · 20 September 2007

Peter Campbell: The Way of the Wobble · 5 April 2007

  • Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the 20th Century by Peter Jones  Buy this book

Peter Campbell: At the Barbican · 22 March 2007

Hal Foster: Wine Flasks in Bordeaux, Sail Spires in Cardiff · 19 October 2006

  • Richard Rogers: Architecture of the Future by Kenneth Powell  Buy this book
  • Richard Rogers: Complete Works, Vol. III by Kenneth Powell  Buy this book

Hal Foster: Go, Modernity · 22 June 2006

  • Catalogue: Foster and Partners edited by David Jenkins
  • Norman Foster: Works 2 edited by David Jenkins  Buy this book

David Simpson: Looking back at the rubble · 25 May 2006

  • The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan

Peter Campbell: At the Soane Museum · 11 May 2006

Andrew Saint: I had to refrain · 1 December 2005

  • Philip Webb: Pioneer of Arts and Crafts Architecture by Sheila Kirk  Buy this book

Peter Campbell: Open House · 6 October 2005

Peter Campbell: At Tate Modern (and elsewhere) · 21 July 2005

Andrew Saint: Swiping at Suburbs · 31 March 2005

Peter Campbell: In Port Sunlight · 20 January 2005

Hal Foster: It’s Modern but is it contemporary? · 16 December 2004

Peter Campbell: At Somerset House · 16 December 2004

Gillian Darley: Don’t teach me · 1 April 2004

  • Ernö Goldfinger: The Life of an Architect by Nigel Warburton

Peter Campbell: Restoring St. George’s · 20 November 2003

Gillian Darley: McNed · 17 April 2003

  • The Architect and His Wife: A Life of Edwin Lutyens by Jane Ridley
  • Edwin Lutyens, Country Houses: From the Archives of ‘Country Life’ by Gavin Stamp
  • Lutyens Abroad edited by Andrew Hopkins and Gavin Stamp

Hal Foster: In New York · 20 March 2003

Andrew Saint: In Le Havre · 6 February 2003

Peter Campbell: At the Whitechapel · 23 January 2003

Peter Campbell: Reading the Signs · 12 December 2002

Peter Campbell: At Salford Quays · 17 October 2002

Andrew Saint: The Danger of Giving In · 17 October 2002

  • An Architect of Promise: George Gilbert Scott Jr (1839-97) and the Late Gothic Revival by Gavin Stamp

Christopher Prendergast: Capital’s Capital · 3 October 2002

  • Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris by Michel Carmona, translated by Patrick Camiller

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