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Contents

Vol. 23 No. 21   ·   1 November 2001

Lorraine Daston

  • The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography by J.B. Harley, edited by Paul Laxton
  • Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination by Denis Cosgrove

Letters

Christopher Prendergast, Todd Ojala, Claude Rawson, Alan Bloxham, Nicholas Simpson, Laleh Khalili, Guy Deutscher, Richard Davenport-Hines, John Palattella, Martin Murray, Christina Gombar, Barth Landor, Charles Plouviez, Anthony Arblaster, Neguin Yavari, Rolf Rembe, Robert Chandler, Geoffrey Ridley Barrow, Harvey Mitchell, Peter Morris, Ralph Garber, Keith Flett

Bonkers about Boys

James Davidson

  • Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction edited by A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham

Das Nuffa Dat and BigGloria3

Elaine Showalter: Up and Down the Academic Ladder

Leaf, Button, Dog

Susan Eilenberg: The Sins of Hester Thrale

  • According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge

Anthony Grafton

  • Latin, or the Empire of a Sign: From the 16th to the 20th Centuries by Françoise Waquet, translated by John Howe

Patrick Collinson

  • The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s by R.W. Hoyle

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Darwinians & Creationists

Michael Wood

  • The Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida, translated by Pascale-Anne Brault
  • A Taste for the Secret by Jacques Derrida and Maurizio Ferraris, translated by Giacomo Donis

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors by William Dean Howells et al
  • Publishing the Family by June Howard

At the Brunei Gallery

Peter Campbell: Indian photography

Philip Kitcher

  • Investigations by Stuart Kauffman

August Kleinzahler. For Christopher Logue

Andrew Saint

  • The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Vol. III, 1840-1950 edited by Martin Daunton

What Explosion?

Paul Seabright in Toulouse

Bruce Robbins

  • Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress edited by Samuel Huntington and Lawrence Harrison
  • Culture/Metaculture by Francis Mulhern
  • Culture: The Anthropologists’ Account by Adam Kuper

David Wheatley

Jessica Olin

  • Cherry by Mary Karr

James Francken

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Shopping bag on blue

Featured articles

Das Nuffa Dat and BigGloria3
Elaine Showalter: Up and Down the Academic Ladder

Leaf, Button, Dog
Susan Eilenberg: The Sins of Hester Thrale

What Explosion?
Paul Seabright in Toulouse

Bonkers about Boys
James Davidson

At the Brunei Gallery
Peter Campbell: Indian photography

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Darwinians & Creationists