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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 5 · 7 March 2002
Peter Campbell rides the escalators
Jonathan Rée, Andrew Kilmister, Humphrey Fullerton, Stanton Cavendish, Luc Schokkaert, Robert Livingston, Nicholas Lezard, Nikos Stangos, Sean McGlynn, Rick Osborn, Stefan Collini, Robert FitzGerald, Bernard Porter
Ross McKibbin: The Debt to Kinnock
- Kinnock: The Biography by Martin Westlake
Michael Wood
- Dicta and Contradicta by Karl Kraus, translated by Jonathan McVity
Jerry Fodor on Donald Davidson
Tom Vanderbilt: secrets and spies
- Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World by James Bamford
- Total Surveillance: Investigating the Big Brother World of E-Spies, Eavesdroppers and CCTV by John Parker
Andrew Berry
- Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands by Edward Larson
Tony Wood
- A Novel without Lies by Anatoly Mariengof, translated by José Alaniz
Siddhartha Deb: James Lasdun’s Novel
Stephen Burt: William Carlos Williams
- Collected Poems: Volume I by William Carlos Williams, edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan
- Collected Poems: Volume II by William Carlos Williams, edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan
J. Hoberman
- Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War Two by Steven Alan Carr
Stephen Sedley on the Right to Silence
Peter Campbell on Aelbert Cuyp
Ben Gilbert: Diary of a Trader
Contributors
Andrew Berry teaches evolutionary biology at Harvard.
Stephen Burt is an associate professor of English at Harvard. His collection of essays and reviews, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, is available now.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Siddhartha Deb, a writer in residence at the New School in New York, is working on a study of contemporary India.
Jerry Fodor teaches philosophy and psychology at Rutgers University. He is working on a book about what Darwin got wrong.
Ben Gilbert works as a trader in the City of London.
J. Hoberman is the author of The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the 1960s.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
Tom Vanderbilt is the author of Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America. He lives in Brooklyn.
Michael Wood’s books include America in the Movies, The Magician’s Doubts, The Road to Delphi and, most recently, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. He teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton.
Tony Wood works at NLR, and is the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence.
