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Contents

Vol. 23 No. 20   ·   18 October 2001

Guests in the President’s House

Steven Shapin: Science Inc.

  • Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel Greenberg

Letters

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

Amit Chaudhuri

‘I am my own foundation’

Megan Vaughan: Fanon and Third Worldism

  • Frantz Fanon: A Life by David Macey

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Scrabble

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

On the Streets

Peter Campbell: The Plane Trees of London

Alex Clark

  • Oxygen by Andrew Miller

Christopher Reid

My Hogs

James Buchan and his Gloucester Old Spots

Leah Price

  • Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: E E E on yellow

Featured articles

Guests in the President’s House
Steven Shapin: Science Inc.

‘I am my own foundation’
Megan Vaughan: Fanon and Third Worldism

My Hogs
James Buchan and his Gloucester Old Spots

On the Streets
Peter Campbell: The Plane Trees of London

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Scrabble