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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 13 · 11 July 2002
Christopher Hitchens: Crimes against Allende
- Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile’s Hidden History by Andy Beckett
James Leigh, A. Banerjee, Hugo Stolkin, J.C. Grayson, Alex Dillon, Paul Bessemer, Justin Horton, Trevor Denning
James Meek on Biotechnology
- A Grain of Truth: the Media, the Public and Biotechnology by Susanna Hornig Priest
- Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone by Mark Winston
- Seeds of Contention: World Hunger and the Global Controversy over GM Crops by Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Frank Kermode
- Nothing like the Sun: reissue by Anthony Burgess
Hermione Lee: Coetzee in London
Sarah Rigby
- Auto da Fay by Fay Weldon
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
- La Fatigue d’être soi: Dépression et société by Alain Ehrenberg
- Comment la Dépression est devenue une épidémie by Philippe Pignarre
Paul Strohm
- Pagans, Tartars, Muslims and Jews in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' by Brenda Deen Schildgen
Thomas Jones: The Ryanverse
Murray Sayle goes back to Bloody Sunday
Peter Campbell on Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting
John Lanchester: My Sporting Life
John Sutherland
- Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murray
- The Cat's Meow directed by Peter Bogdanovich (2002)
Rory Stewart in Afghanistan
Contributors
John Ashbery’s last collection was Where Shall I Wander; the next will be A Worldly Country.
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen’s books include The Freudian Subject and The Emotional Tie: Psychoanalysis, Mimesis and Affect.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
John Lanchester is a contributing editor at the LRB. His latest book is Family Romance, a memoir.
Hermione Lee is the Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at Oxford. Her books include biographies of Virginia Woolf and, most recently, Edith Wharton.
James Meek’s novel We Are Now Beginning Our Descent was published in February. The People’s Act of Love won the Ondaatje Prize.
Sarah Rigby edited Patricia Beer’s As I Was Saying Yesterday: Selected Essays and Reviews, published by Carcanet. Some years ago she worked for this paper: now she lives in New York City.
Murray Sayle is a veteran foreign correspondent who has been living in Japan.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between describes his walk across Afghanistan in 2001. He has worked for the British government in Indonesia, the Balkans and Iraq, and is now a fellow of the Carr Centre at Harvard.
Paul Strohm, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, teaches medieval literature, critical theory and film studies. He is the author of Theory and the Premodern Text.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.