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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
- Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective by 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’s The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence came out last year; he teaches at Harvard. A collection of his essays on contemporary poets will appear next year.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Siddhartha Deb’s first novel, The Point of Return, is due from Picador this year.
Jerry Fodor teaches philosophy and psychology at Rutgers University
Ben Gilbert works as a trader in the City of London.
J. Hoberman is senior film critic for the Village Voice and the author of The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
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 teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
Tony Wood works at the New Left Review. Chechnya: The Case for Independence appeared last year.