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Contents

Vol. 24 No. 2   ·   14 January 2002

You Muddy Fools

Dan Jacobson: In the months before his death Ian Hamilton talked about himself to Dan Jacobson interviews Ian Hamilton

Letters

Paul Genova, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, T.H. Barrett, Max Crawford, David Seddon, J. Behar, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Robin Milner-Gulland, Bill Gilmour, James Davidson, Alan O’Brien, Chris Miller, E.S. Turner

Ian Hamilton

Bernard Porter

  • Churchill: A Study in Greatness by Geoffrey Best
  • Churchill by Roy Jenkins

Richard Prior and Trevor Wilson

  • Lord Kitchener and Winston Churchill: The Dardanelles Commission Part I, 1914-15
  • Defeat at Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Commission Part II, 1915-16

Short Cuts

John Sturrock: Editions de minuit

Frank Kermode on Blasphemy

  • Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the 17th to the 19th Century by Alain Cabantous, translated by Eric Rauth

Jonathan Rée

  • Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan Israel

Dear Prudence

Steven Shapin on Stephen Toulmin

  • Return to Reason by Stephen Toulmin

At the National Gallery

Peter Campbell: Goya

Sophie Harrison

  • The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer

August Kleinzahler

Beefcake Ease

Miranda Carter on Robert Mitchum and Steve McQueen

  • Robert Mitchum: Solid, Dad, Crazy by Damien Love
  • Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don’t Care by Lee Server
  • McQueen: The Biography by Christopher Sandford

Paul Henley

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Ian Hamilton quote

Featured articles

You Muddy Fools
Dan Jacobson interviews Ian Hamilton: In the months before his death Ian Hamilton talked about himself to Dan Jacobson

Dear Prudence
Steven Shapin on Stephen Toulmin

Beefcake Ease
Miranda Carter on Robert Mitchum and Steve McQueen

At the National Gallery
Peter Campbell: Goya

Short Cuts
John Sturrock: Editions de minuit