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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 19 · 4 October 2001
Malcolm Bull on Hardt and Negri’s Empire
- Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Gordon Wardman, John Coggrave, Barbara Blœdé, , Michael Hampton, Edgar Ernstbrunner, Neil Alldred, George Hornby, Alistair Dixon, Frank Ridley
Frank Kermode on Atonement by Ian McEwan
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
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
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
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
Will Frears at Ground Zero
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power will be published next year.
Neal Ascherson’s books include The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea. He is an honorary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College 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.
David Bromwich teaches English at Yale and is the editor of a selection of Burke’s writings, On Empire, Liberty and Reform.
James Buchan’s books include Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money, Crowded with Genius and, most recently, Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty.
Malcolm Bull is the head of art history and theory at the Ruskin in Oxford. His books include Seeing Things Hidden: Apocalypse, Vision and Totality.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Lorraine Daston, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has written on the history of probability, wonders and scientific objectivity.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. His most recent book is Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Paul Foot died in July 2004. He wrote 60 pieces for the LRB – on subjects including Leon Britain, the Birmingham Six, MI5, Tiny Rowland, Neil Hamilton, Gordon Brown and (often) Shelley.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Will Frears is a theatre director who lives in New York.
Marjorie Garber teaches English at Harvard. Quotation Marks and, with Nancy Vickers, The Medusa Reader are both due from Routledge.
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.
Claire Harman’s biographies of Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson are available in paperback. She is writing a book about Jane Austen’s fame.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
J. Hoberman is senior film critic for the Village Voice and the author of The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties.
Stephen Holmes teaches at New York University School of Law. His most recent book is The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
Fredric Jameson teaches at Duke University. His many books include A Singular Modernity.
Alan Jenkins is the author of The Drift and Little Black Book, among other collections.
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.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Anatol Lieven reported from Moscow for the Times from 1990 to 1996 and is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. His latest book is Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World.
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.
Edwin Morgan’s most recent book is Tales from Baron Munchausen (Mariscat). The Play of Gilgamesh is due from Carcanet this year.
Thomas Powers is the author of Heisenberg’s War and The Man Who Kept the Secrets. His first novel, The Confirmation, is published in the US by Knopf.
Arnold Rattenbury began as an editor (Our Time and Theatre Today), became an exhibition designer and is the author of seven volumes of poetry.
Michael Rogin died in November 2001. Stephen Greenblatt wrote about him in the LRB of 3 January 2002.
Richard Rorty, whose books included Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Truth and Progress, was professor emeritus of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. He died in June 2007.
Jacqueline Rose teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. Her books include On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World and, most recently, The Question of Zion.
David Runciman’s new book is Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Sukhdev Sandhu’s London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City was published in the summer. He writes about film for the Daily Telegraph.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University Law School, is the author of Law and Disagreement and God, Locke and Equality.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
David Wootton’s Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates will be published by Oxford in June. He teaches early modern history at the University of York, where he is an Anniversary Professor.