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Contents

Vol. 23 No. 12   ·   21 June 2001

After George W. Bush, the Deluge

Murray Sayle on climate change

  • The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming by David Victor
  • Managing the Planet: The Politics of the New Millennium by Norman Moss

Letters

Robert Storr, Deborah Friedell, Pamela Oakley, Rev. Tim Russ, Chris Oakley, Adam Roberts, Neal Wade, Phil Edwards, Alexander Evans, Keith Flett, Julian Burgess, Lynn Jones, Yuliy Baryshnikov

R.W. Johnson

  • A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide by Linda Melvern

Geoffrey Best

  • The ‘Times’ and Appeasement: The Journals of A.L. Kennedy 1932-39 edited by Gordon Martel
  • Churchill and Appeasement by R.A.C. Parker

Paul Strohm

  • Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life by Herman Pleij, translated by Diane Webb

A.D. Nuttall

  • How Milton Works by Stanley Fish

Germaine Greer

  • Order and Disorder by Lucy Hutchinson, edited by David Norbrook

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Britney’s Biggest Fan

Frank Kermode

  • Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000 by Jonathan Croall
  • John G.: The Authorised Biography of John Gielgud by Sheridan Morley
  • John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life by Gyles Brandreth

No Accident

Zachary Leader: Gore Vidal’s Golden Age

  • The Golden Age: A Novel by Gore Vidal

Paul Smith

Robert Irwin

  • Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac
  • Tibet: The Great Game and Tsarist Russia by Tatiana Shaumian

Robert VanderMolen

Adam Hochschild

  • The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska

Paul Henley

  • Anthropologie et cinéma: Passage à l'image, passage par l'image by Marc Henri Piault
  • Transcultural Cinema by David MacDougall

Robert Crawford

Animal Experiences

Colin Tudge at the zoo

  • A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future by David Hancocks

David Wheatley

  • The Donkey’s Ears: Politovsky’s Letters Home by Douglas Dunn
  • The Year's Afternoon by Douglas Dunn

At Tate Britain

Peter Campbell: James Gillray

Tim Salmon

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Filing cabinet

Featured articles

After George W. Bush, the Deluge
Murray Sayle on climate change

No Accident
Zachary Leader: Gore Vidal’s Golden Age

Animal Experiences
Colin Tudge at the zoo

At Tate Britain
Peter Campbell: James Gillray

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Britney’s Biggest Fan