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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 8 · 13 April 2000
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen writes about Der Fall Freud: Die Geburt der Psychonalyse aus der Luge
- Der Fall Freud: Die Geburt der Psychoanalyse aus der Lüge by Han Israëls, translated by Gerd Busse
Anne Enright searches the Internet
Donald MacKenzie writes about the ways in which ‘finance theory’ becomes part of what it examines
Jerry Fodor, Alex Fox, August Kleinzahler, John Ross, Olaf Olsen, A.J.P. Dalton, Alan Saunders, Barry Fox, Trevor Kerslake, Lena Barrett, Tony White, W.S. Milne, Julia Gasper, A.E. Roberts, Kelvin Paisley, Roger Hardy, John Alpe
Peter Campbell
- The Unknown Matisse: Man of the North, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling
- Matisse: Father and Son by John Russell
- Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse by John O’Brien
- Matisse and Picasso by Yve-Alain Bois
Nicholas Penny
- The Culture of the High Renaissance by Ingrid Rowland
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna, translated by Joscelyn Godwin
- After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the 16th Century by Marcia Hall
Matthew Battles
- The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World edited by Roy MacLeod
Julian Bell: Sitting for Vanessa
- The Art of Bloomsbury edited by Richard Shone
- First Friends by Ronald Blythe
- Bloomsbury in France by Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright
Marina Warner on the monstrousness of Britart
- High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s by Julian Stallabrass
- This is Modern Art by Matthew Collings
Marjorie Garber: Tupperising America
- Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America by Alison Clarke
Dan Hawthorn writes about the constraints facing the new administration for London
Simon Schaffer: Entropists v. Energeticists
- Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man who Trusted Atoms by Carlo Cercignani
Lorraine Daston
- The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning by Alain Desrosières, translated by Camille Naish
James Francken
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Bernard Wasserstein
- A People Apart: The Jews in Europe 1789-1939 by David Vital
Contributors
Matthew Battles works in the Widener Library at Harvard.
Julian Bell is the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which came out last month.
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen’s books include The Freudian Subject and The Emotional Tie: Psychoanalysis, Mimesis and Affect.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.
Lorraine Daston, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has written on the history of probability, wonders and scientific objectivity.
Anne Enright’s novel The Gathering is out from Cape. There will be a book of stories in the spring.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Marjorie Garber teaches English at Harvard. Quotation Marks and, with Nancy Vickers, The Medusa Reader are both due from Routledge.
Dan Hawthorn works in local government in London, and is a founding member of www.netopolis.org, an online discussion forum for the city.
Donald MacKenzie’s Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed will be published by Oxford. He teaches sociology at Edinburgh University.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Simon Schaffer teaches the history of science at Cambridge. His collection of essays on inquiry and invention from the Renaissance to early industrialisation, co-edited with Lissa Roberts and Peter Dear, is due next year.
Stephen Smith is the Northern Correspondent of Channel Four News. His book on Cuba, The Land of Miracles, is published by Abacus.
Marina Warner’s books include From the Beast to the Blonde, Indigo and most recently, Phantasmagoria. She teaches at the University of Essex.
Bernard Wasserstein, author of Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe since 1945, is a professor of history at Glasgow University.