Articles marked
are available to registered subscribers to the print edition of the London Review of Books. For information about subscribing to the LRB, click here. If you are already a subscriber and you wish to register for online access, click here. Articles marked
are not currently available in the LRB online archive.
Contents
Vol. 24 No. 7 · 4 April 2002
Terry Castle: Disquiet on the Western Front
Sheila Stern, Ron Haggart, Pat Harvey, Robert FitzGerald, David Rose, Steve Baiocchi, Bernard Murchland, Andrew Coulson, Andrew Graham-Yooll, Graham Kemp, Stephen Burt
Linda Nochlin on Louise Bourgeois
- Louise Bourgeois’s ‘Spider’: The Architecture of Art-Writing by Mieke Bal
Charles Nicholl looks for the Mona Lisa
- Mona Lisa: The History of the World’s Most Famous Painting by Donald Sassoon
Quentin Skinner: Living in Servitude
R.W. Johnson on Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War Two Espionage by Joseph Persico.
- Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War Two Espionage by Joseph Persico
Andy Beckett: The Protest Ethic by John Lloyd
- The Protest Ethic: How the Anti-Globalisation Movement Challenges Social Democracy by John Lloyd
Thomas Jones: military intelligence
Roy Porter on Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror by J.M. Beattie.
- Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror by J.M. Beattie
Lorna Scott Fox on Mike Davies
- Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City by Mike Davis
David Craig: The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
Rose George: Eddie Stobart
- The Eddie Stobart Story by Hunter Davies
Peter Wollen: John Berger
- The Selected Essays of John Berger edited by Geoff Dyer
Jessica Olin: The Bystander’s Scrapbook by Joseph Torra
- The Bystander's Scrapbook by Joseph Torra
Robert Macfarlane: The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
- The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
Laura Quinney: James Merrill
- Collected Poems by James Merrill, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser
Richard Davenport-Hines: Jack the Ripper and the London Press by Perry Curtis
- Jack the Ripper and the London Press by Perry Curtis
Peter Campbell on Martin Parr
- Martin Parr by Val Williams
Contributors
Andy Beckett’s Pinochet in Piccadilly is out in paperback. He is writing a book about Britain in the 1970s.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
Richard Davenport-Hines has written the entries on Jack the Ripper and other serial killers for the New Dictionary of National Biography. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics 1500-2000 was published in 2001.
Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World, about Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire. She is working on a book about human waste.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Anatol Lieven reported from Moscow for the Times from 1990 to 1996 and is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. His latest book is Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World.
Robert Macfarlane teaches at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination won the Guardian First Book Award.
Jamie McKendrick edited the Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems. His collections include Ink Stone, Sky Nails and The Marble Fly.
Charles Nicholl’s most recent book is The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street.
Linda Nochlin teaches art history at New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
Jessica Olin lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Roy Porter, who died in March 2002, was a regular, much admired and much envied contributor to the LRB: he was the author of an astonishing number of books, including London: A Social History (1994), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997) and Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2000).
Laura Quinney is the author of Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth and The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. She teaches at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Lorna Scott Fox is an editor and translator who lives in London.
Quentin Skinner is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge. He spoke about Milton and liberty at Cambridge in January as part of the 400th-anniversary celebrations of Milton’s birth.
Susan Wheeler is the author of three collections of poetry; the most recent is Source Codes. She teaches at Princeton and at the New School in New York City.
Peter Wollen teaches at UCLA.