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Contents

Vol. 24 No. 5   ·   7 March 2002

Why does it take so long to mend an escalator?

Peter Campbell rides the escalators

Letters

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

  • Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective by Donald Davidson

An Even Deeper Bunker

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

Charles Simic

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

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Buffy!

Siddhartha Deb: James Lasdun’s Novel

Chicory and Daisies

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

At the National Gallery

Peter Campbell on Aelbert Cuyp

Ben Gilbert: Diary of a Trader

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Architecture montage

Featured articles

Why does it take so long to mend an escalator?
Peter Campbell rides the escalators

An Even Deeper Bunker
Tom Vanderbilt: secrets and spies

Chicory and Daisies
Stephen Burt: William Carlos Williams

At the National Gallery
Peter Campbell on Aelbert Cuyp

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Buffy!