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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 11 · 7 June 2001
Glen Newey: John Gray
- Two Faces of Liberalism by John Gray
Stan Smith, John Jennings, C. McLeod, William Benemann, Lawrence Hogben, Marion Mainwaring, Lesley Chamberlain, Philip Schreibman
Charles Glass
- One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman
- Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-48 by Naomi Shepherd
Peter Campbell: Artists’ studios
Edward Luttwak: Brownouts
Mary Beard
- A History of Harrow School by Christopher Tyerman
Richard Vinen
- Services Spéciaux Algérie 1955-57: Mon témoignage sur la torture by Paul Aussaresses
- Appelés en Algérie: La Parole confisquée by Claire Mauss-Copeaux
J.L. Nelson: Heretics
- The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
- The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329 by René Weis
David Blackbourn on Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century by John McNeill
- Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century by John McNeill
Graham Robb
- The Life of Marie d'Agoult, Alias Daniel Stern by Phyllis Stock-Morton
- Marie d’Agoult: The Rebel Countess by Richard Bolster
Gabriele Annan on Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
- Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, translated by George Bird
James Francken
- number9dream by David Mitchell
John Palattella
- Other Traditions by John Ashbery
- John Ashbery and American Poetry by David Herd
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
David Blackbourn, whose Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany was reviewed in the LRB by Neal Ascherson, teaches history at Harvard.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Charles Glass has recently published two books on the Middle East, The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in France during the German occupation.
Peter Goldsworthy is a doctor in Adelaide. This Goes with That: Selected Poems will be published here in October.
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.
J.L. Nelson teaches medieval history at King’s College London. She is writing a book about Charlemagne.
Glen Newey is a reader in politics at Strathclyde University.
John Palattella’s essays and reviews have appeared in Lingua Franca, Dissent and the Boston Review. He lives in Brooklyn.
Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century was published in 2003.
Victor Sage, who was married to Lorna Sage for many years, spoke about her at a memorial gathering in Norwich on 28 April. He is a reader in English at the University of East Anglia.
Richard Vinen teaches at King’s College London. A History in Fragments: Europe in the 20th Century is published by Little, Brown.
