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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 18 · 17 September 1998
Edward Luttwak writes about the financial crisis in Russia, September 1998
Brian Rotman: John Nash and Paul Erdos
- The Man who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
- Proofs from the Book by Martin Aigner and Günter Ziegler
- A Beautiful Mind: Genius and Schizophrenia in the Life of John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
Michael Rogin: Beauvoir and Nelson Algren
- Beloved Chicago Man: Letters to Nelson Algren 1947-64 by Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
- America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Carol Cosman
Roy Roebuck, David Tipping, John Coleby, Peter Morriss, Michael Dobson, Simon Wessely, Gerald Hammond, Keith Flett, Richard Penney
C.K. Stead: For Les Murray
Timothy Garton Ash: ‘48, ‘68, ‘89
V.G. Kiernan: Memories of the CP
- The Death of Uncle Joe by Alison Macleod
- Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party by Francis Beckett
Peter Campbell: Pretty Rothko
- Mark Rothko edited by Jeffrey Weiss
- Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas by David Anfam
Denise Riley: Naming the Canvas
- Invisible Colours: A Visual History of Titles by John Welchman
Peter Wollen: Godard Turns Over
- The Films of Jean-Luc Godard by Wheeler Winston Dixon
- Speaking about Godard by Kaja Silverman and Harun Farocki
Armand Marie Leroi: Social Selection
- The Handicap Principle by Amotz Zahavi and Avishag Zahavi
- The Social Animal by W.G. Runciman
D.J. Enright: Suffolk Blues
- The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse
Elaine Showalter: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Sherman
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life by Janice Hadda
Lorna Scott Fox: Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Maria Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman
John Sutherland: David Storey
- A Serious Man by David Storey
- Saville by David Storey
J. Hoberman: Popular (Front) Songs
- Songs for Political Action: Folk Music, Topical Songs and the American Left, 1926-53 edited by Ronald Cohen and Dave Samuelson
Richard Gott: Víctor Jara’s Chile
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
D.J. Enright was a poet, novelist and academic. He taught for many years in universities in South-East Asia. He died in December 2002.
Timothy Garton Ash, a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, was awarded the OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy in 1998. The File: A Personal History is available in paperback from Flamingo.
Richard Gott has written several books about Latin America, including Cuba: A New World.
J. Hoberman is senior film critic for the Village Voice and the author of The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties.
V.G. Kiernan, an emeritus professor of history at Edinburgh University, is the author of The Duel in European History and Tobacco: A History.
Armand Marie Leroi teaches evolutionary and developmental biology at Imperial College, London.
Edward Luttwak is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. His books include The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire and, more recently, Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace.
Denise Riley is reader in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is published in Penguin Modern Poets.
Michael Rogin died in November 2001. Stephen Greenblatt wrote about him in the LRB of 3 January 2002.
Brian Rotman is a member of the faculty of comparative studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Signifying Nothing (about zero) and of Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing’s Machine.
Lorna Scott Fox is an editor and translator who lives in London.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
C.K. Stead’s Straw into Gold: New and Selected Poems is published by Arc.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Peter Wollen teaches at UCLA.
