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Contents

Vol. 23 No. 19   ·   4 October 2001

You can’t build a new society with a Stanley knife

Malcolm Bull on Hardt and Negri’s Empire

  • Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

Letters

Gordon Wardman, John Coggrave, Barbara Blœdé, , Michael Hampton, Edgar Ernstbrunner, Neil Alldred, George Hornby, Alistair Dixon, Frank Ridley

Edwin Morgan

Point of View

Frank Kermode on Atonement by Ian McEwan

  • Atonement by Ian McEwan

Anatol Lieven

Aliens and Others

Sukhdev Sandhu: the desolation of Manhattan

Edward Luttwak

  • Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the Richest, Most Powerful Criminal in History by Mark Bowden

Neal Ascherson

  • The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte, translated by Ann Wright and Renée Fenby

Claire Harman

  • The Nightfisherman: Selected Letters of W.S. Graham edited by Michael Snow and Margaret Snow

11 September

Some LRB writers reflect on the reasons and consequences

Arnold Rattenbury

  • Selected Poems by Randall Swingler, edited by Andy Croft
  • British Writing of the Second World War by Mark Rawlinson

At the Royal Academy

Peter Campbell on Frank Auerbach

David Wootton

  • The Possession at Loudun by Michel de Certeau, translated by Michael Smith
  • The Certeau Reader edited by Graham Ward
  • Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist by Ian Buchanan

Alan Jenkins

Rosemary Hill

  • A Circle of Sisters: Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin by Judith Flanders
  • The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939 by Adam Nicolson
  • Victorian Diaries: The Daily Lives of Victorian Men and Women edited by Heather Creaton

Marjorie Garber

  • Seabiscuit: The Making of a Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

James Francken

  • A Gentleman's Game by Tom Coyne
  • Riverbank Tweed and Roadmap Jenkins: Tales from the Caddie Yard by Bo Links
  • Spikes by Michael Griffith

11 September

Will Frears at Ground Zero

Contributors

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Featured articles

11 September
Some LRB writers reflect on the reasons and consequences

Aliens and Others
Sukhdev Sandhu: the desolation of Manhattan

11 September
Will Frears at Ground Zero

You can’t build a new society with a Stanley knife
Malcolm Bull on Hardt and Negri’s Empire

Point of View
Frank Kermode on Atonement by Ian McEwan

At the Royal Academy
Peter Campbell on Frank Auerbach