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Contents
Vol. 24 No. 19 · 3 October 2002
Perry Anderson on Eric Hobsbawm’s Memoirs
Jacob de Villiers, Margaret Kearton, Michael Jacobsen, Eugene Sullivan, Scott Lahti, David Drew, Liz Willis, Brenda Deen Schildgen, Andrew Burnside, Edmond Wright, Anthony Fowles, Richard Cummings
Anatol Lieven: The Threat from America
Peter Campbell on Barnett Newman
Charles Glass: The Making and Unmaking of Iraq
Marina Warner: Science at the Séances
- The Invention of Telepathy by Roger Luckhurst
James Wood: Zadie Smith
- The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Thomas Jones on Aristophanes
Daniel Soar on Jeffrey Eugenides
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Laura Quinney on Mark Doty
Claire Harman on George Barker
- The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker by Robert Fraser
Conor Gearty: Blair, the Law and the War
Penelope Fitzgerald‘s Doodles
Christopher Prendergast: Baron Haussmann’s Paris
- Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris by Michel Carmona, translated by Patrick Camiller
Peter Wollen: Kassel’s Mega-Exhibition
Yitzhak Laor: General Boogey’s War
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Penelope Fitzgerald, a frequent and much-missed contributor to the London Review, died in 2000. She wrote three biographies and ten works of fiction, all in print.
Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at the LSE, has written a number of books on terrorism and human rights.
Charles Glass has recently published two books on the Middle East, The Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in France during the German occupation.
Claire Harman’s biographies of Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson are available in paperback. She is writing a book about Jane Austen’s fame.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Yitzhak Laor’s Le Nouveau Philosémitisme européen is published by Fabrique in Paris.
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.
Christopher Prendergast is a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and was the general editor of the Penguin Proust.
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.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Marina Warner’s books include From the Beast to the Blonde, Indigo and most recently, Phantasmagoria. She teaches at the University of Essex.
Peter Wollen teaches at UCLA.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
