Articles marked 
are available to registered subscribers to the print edition of the London Review of Books. For information about subscribing to the LRB, click here. If you are already a subscriber and you wish to register for online access, click here.
Contents
Vol. 23 No. 7 · 5 April 2001
Murray Sayle on Japan’s economic troubles
Ahmed Gul, David Moore, Roger Nobbs, Robin Cooper, Cal Winslow, Michael Richards, Richard Morris, Keith Flett
Christopher Hitchens: Nixon in China
- A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China by Patrick Tyler
Peter Wollen: Baader Meinhof Studies
- Gerhard Richter: ‘October 18, 1977’ edited by Robert Storr
R.W. Johnson
- Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
- Mandelson and the Making of New Labour by Donald Macintyre
- Mo Mowlam: The Biography by Julia Langdon
- Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning by Nicholas Kochan
- The Paymaster: Geoffrey Robinson, Maxwell and New Labour by Tom Bower
- The Future of Politics by Charles Kennedy
John Lloyd
- The British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History by Trevor Herbert
Peter Campbell
- Titian: The Complete Paintings by Filippo Pedrocco and Maria Agnese Chiari Moreto Weil
Thomas Jones: Who’s the arts minister?
Christopher Tayler
- Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe
David Coward
- Molière: A Theatrical Life by Virginia Scott
Norma Clarke
- Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725 by Kathryn King
John Mullan
- Wordsworth: A Life by Juliet Barker
- The Hidden Wordsworth by Kenneth Johnston
- Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s by David Bromwich
Robert Crawford
- The Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. VIII: The ‘Spy’ edited by Gillian Hughes
Jeremy Harding: Botticelli
Jack Rakove
- Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 by Jon Butler
- Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby
Contributors
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Norma Clarke is the author of Dr Johnson’s Women and The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters. She teaches in the English Departmentat Kingston University in Surrey.
David Coward is emeritus professor of French at the University of Leeds. His translation of Hedi Kaddour’s Waltenberg will be published next spring.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Malcolm Deas is a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. He spends his vacations in Bogotá.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He is a professor of English at University College London.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
John Lloyd is a former labour editor of the Financial Times and the author of An Anatomy of Russia and Loss without Limit, about the miners’ strike of 1984-85.
Derek Mahon’s Collected Poems were published by the Gallery Press in 1999. A Selected Poems came out from Penguin last year.
Catherine Merridale, a lecturer in history at Bristol University, is the author of Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia.
John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.
Jack Rakove’s Original Meanings was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. The American Constitution is due in the summer. He teaches at Stanford.
Murray Sayle is a veteran foreign correspondent who has been living in Japan.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Peter Wollen teaches at UCLA.
