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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 4 · 21 February 2002
Murray Sayle: Mao in Vietnam
- China and the Vietnam Wars 1950-75 by Qiang Zhai
- None so Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam by George Allen
- No Peace, No Honour: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam by Larry Berman
James Waterson, Rupert Holroyd, Ian Adveron, Lavinia Cramer, Timothy Mowl, Patrick Parrinder, Leon Lewis, Norah Carlin, Brian Towers, Nancy Kenyon, Richard Boston, Dod Davidson, Tahir Kayani
Mary Beard: Astérix Redux
- Asterix and the Actress by Albert Uderzo, translated by Anthea Bell
Eric Hobsbawm: Epidemic of War
Susan Watkins
- Rosa Luxemburg: An Intimate Portrait by Mathilde Jacob, translated by Hans Fernbach
Dan Jacobson: the concluding part of his interview with Ian Hamilton interviews Ian Hamilton
Peter Campbell: Timber-frame
Daniel Soar
- That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
David Craig
- Sea Room: An Island Life by Adam Nicolson
Simon Schaffer
- His Invention so Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren by Adrian Tinniswood
Peter Green
- The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek, the Man who Discovered Britain by Barry Cunliffe
- Ptolemy’s Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters edited by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones
- Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Atlas and Map-By-Map Directory by Richard J.A. Talbert
Contributors
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.
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
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.
Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. His many books include Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic World.
Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels - and on football - to the LRB. He died on 27 December 2001.
Eric Hobsbawm’s most recent book is Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Murray Sayle is a veteran foreign correspondent who has been living in Japan.
Simon Schaffer teaches the history of science at Cambridge. His collection of essays on inquiry and invention from the Renaissance to early industrialisation, co-edited with Lissa Roberts and Peter Dear, is due next year.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Susan Watkins is the author of Feminism for Beginners and co-author of 1968: Marching in the Streets. She is the managing editor of New Left Review.
