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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 20 · 18 October 2001
Steven Shapin: Science Inc.
- Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel Greenberg
Marjorie Perloff, Anne Willie, Todd Ojala, Robert Livingston, Robert Wilson, Greville Healey, Sheila Wright, Scott Herrick, Jim Valentine, David Hamilton
Bernard Porter
- Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 by Stella Rimington
Stephen Kotkin
- A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya, translated by John Crowfoot
- Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus by Svante Cornell
Megan Vaughan: Fanon and Third Worldism
- Frantz Fanon: A Life by David Macey
Terry Eagleton
- Gallows Speeches from 18th-Century Ireland by James Kelly
Jenny Diski
- Dangerous Muse: A Life of Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger
Benjamin Markovits
- Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell
Theo Tait
- Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel
Peter Campbell: The Plane Trees of London
James Buchan and his Gloucester Old Spots
Leah Price
- Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson
Contributors
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.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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.
Alex Clark is a freelance journalist who lives in London.
Allen Curnow, a poet often published and much admired by the LRB, died in September 2001. Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems, 1941-97 is available from Carcanet. The Bells of Saint Babel’s has just been published in paperback.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Stephen Kotkin, who directs the Russian studies programme at Princeton, is the author of Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000.
Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.
Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.
Leah Price teaches English at Harvard. She is the author of The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel.
Christopher Reid’s poetry is published by Faber. Katerina Brac is out in paperback.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Life of Science: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation will appear in the autumn.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Megan Vaughan teaches at Cambridge. Psychiatry and Empire was published last year.