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Contents
Vol. 22 No. 12 · 22 June 2000
Michael Byers: Missile Treaties
Jay Griffiths at the Mayday protest in London (2000)
Jenny Turner on Douglas Coupland
- Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
T.J. Clark
- The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, translated by Howard Eiland
A.W.B. Simpson, Stanley Best, Jonathan Persse, John Elderfield, David Sylvester, Peter Breuer, Conrad Cork, David Potter, Wilhelm Schmid, Andrew Cowan, Richard Gott, Michael Brookes, John Pook, Paul Muldoon, Editor, ‘London Review’
Frank Kermode: Empson and Obscurity
- The Complete Poems of William Empson edited by John Haffenden
Gilberto Perez: The Trouble with Being Cuban
- On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture by Louis Pérez Jr.
Avi Shlaim
- The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey by Fouad Ajami
Frank Cioffi
- The Rumour: A Cultural History by Hans-Joachim Neubauer, translated by Christian Braun
David Thomson
- The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper by Dominick Dunne
- Gary Cooper Off Camera: A Daughter Remembers by Maria Cooper Janis
Alexander Nehamas
- On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
- Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey
Ian Hacking
- Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being by Paul Feyerabend, edited by Bert Terpstra
Roy Porter
- British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800: The Origins of an Associational World by Peter Clark
Miles Taylor
- British Society 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change by Richard Price
Clive Wilmer
- Collected Shorter Poems: 1966-96 by John Peck
Ian Hamilton: The Hypothetical Philip Roth
- The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Susan Watkins
- The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby by Marion Shaw
Rosemary Dinnage
- Selected Letters of Rebecca West edited by Bonnie Kime Scott
Matthew Reisz
- American Pimpernel: The Man who Saved the Artists on Hitler’s Death List by Andy Marino
Contributors
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Frank Cioffi’s books include Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer.
T.J. Clark teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His book about Courbet, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, was published in 1973. His study of two Poussin landscapes, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing, is out in paperback.
Rosemary Dinnage is a writer on literary and psychoanalytical subjects who lives in London.
Jay Griffiths is the author of Pip Pip.
Ian Hacking is the author of Historical Ontology. He teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels - and on football - to the LRB. He died on 27 December 2001.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Edwin Morgan’s most recent book is Tales from Baron Munchausen (Mariscat). The Play of Gilgamesh is due from Carcanet this year.
Alexander Nehamas chairs the programme in Hellenic Studies at Princeton. His books include The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault.
Gilberto Perez teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York and is the author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium.
Roy Porter, who died in March 2002, was a regular, much admired and much envied contributor to the LRB: he was the author of an astonishing number of books, including London: A Social History (1994), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997) and Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2000).
Matthew Reisz is the editor of the Jewish Quarterly
Avi Shlaim, a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, is the author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.
Miles Taylor teaches history at the University of York. His life of the Chartist Ernest Jones came out last year.
David Thomson is the author of A Biographical Dictionary of Film and Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles, among other books. He is a British expatriate who lives in California.
Jenny Turner’s novel, The Brainstorm, is published by Cape.
Susan Watkins is the author of Feminism for Beginners and co-author of 1968: Marching in the Streets. She is the managing editor of New Left Review.
Susan Wicks has published five collections of poetry, two novels and a short memoir. De-iced is out now.
Clive Wilmer has published five collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Falls.