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Contents

Vol. 23 No. 15   ·   9 August 2001

The Man from Nowhere

John Sturrock: Burying André Malraux

Letters

Alistair Elliot, Editor, ‘London Review’, Tam and Kathleen Dalyell, George Schlesinger, Kevin Kopelson, Peter Riley, Jon Newman, Mick McManus, Elaine Windrich, R.W. Johnson, Patrick Hughes

Martin Clark

  • L'Informatore: Silone, i Comunisti e la polizia by Dario Biocca and Mauro Canali

R.W. Davies

  • Midnight Diaries by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Catherine Fitzpatrick
  • Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey through the Yeltsin Era by Roy Medvedev, translated by George Shriver
  • Zagadka Putina by Roy Medvedev

Jeremy Waldron

  • Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by Ronald Dworkin

Helen Cooper

  • The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theatre in Early Modern England by Michael O'Connell

Richard Davenport-Hines

  • Letters from Prison by the Marquis de Sade, translated by Richard Seaver
  • De Sade's Valet by Nikolaj Frobenius, translated by Tom Geddes

Jeremy Noel-Tod

  • Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier  Buy this book
  • Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
  • A View of Delft: Vermeer Then and Now by Anthony Bailey
  • Vermeer's Camera by Philip Steadman

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Telly

Emotional Sushi

Ian Sansom: Tony, Nick and Simon

  • One for My Baby by Tony Parsons
  • How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
  • Little Green Man by Simon Armitage

A Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter

Amit Chaudhuri on R.K. Narayan

William Wootten

  • The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins

Robin Fox

  • In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker

At Tate Britain

Peter Campbell: Michael Andrews

Richard Fortey

  • The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science by Simon Winchester

Richard Jenkyns

  • A History of Greece: From the Time of Solon to 403 BC by George Grote, edited by J.M. Mitchell and M.O.B. Caspari

Simon Collier

  • Liberators: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence, 1810-30 by Robert Harvey

Richard Sanger

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Roses, parrot, vase

Featured articles

The Man from Nowhere
John Sturrock: Burying André Malraux

Emotional Sushi
Ian Sansom: Tony, Nick and Simon

A Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter
Amit Chaudhuri on R.K. Narayan

At Tate Britain
Peter Campbell: Michael Andrews

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Telly