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.
Contents
Vol. 24 No. 22 · 14 November 2002
Stephen Holmes: Questions of Intervention
- A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
- War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals by David Halberstam
Pat Kane, Peter Arnott, Christopher Small, Morag Macdonald, Duncan Hunter, Sanford Gabin, Ken Wiwa, F.S. Schwarzbach, Peter McDonald
Anthony Pagden: When Britons were slaves
- Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 by Linda Colley
Colin Burrow on Pepys
- Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
J.G.A. Pocock: Gibbon under Fire
- Gibbon and the ‘Watchmen of the Holy City’: The Historian and His Reputation 1776-1815 by David Womersley
Peter Campbell: Taste and exclusivity
Andrew Sugden: grass
- The Forgiveness of Nature: The Story of Grass by Graham Harvey
Thomas Jones on The Quiet American
Benjamin Markovits on Miklós Bánffy’s Transylvanian Trilogy
- They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
- They Were Found Wanting by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfiled and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
- They Were Divided by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
James Wood: ‘Life of Pi’
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
James Meek on Michel Houellebecq
- Platform by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Frank Wynne
Stéphane Mallarmé: A Translation by Patrick McGuinness
Mark Kishlansky on the Duchess of Marlborough
- The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough by Ophelia Field
Katha Pollitt: Corsets
- The Corset: A Cultural History by Valerie Steele
- Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset by Leigh Summers
Margaret Anne Doody on men in suits
- The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England 1550-1850 by David Kuchta
Jenny Diski is dragged to the shoe shop
Contributors
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Margaret Anne Doody is John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She is the author of The True Story of the Novel
Mark Doty is the author of Firebird, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Source.
Stephen Holmes teaches at New York University School of Law. His most recent book is The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Mark Kishlansky, who teaches at Harvard, is the author, with David Cannadine, of Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714. He is working on a study of the reign of Charles I.
Patrick McGuinness, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, is the author of Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.
Stéphane Mallarmé. Patrick McGuinness’s translation of Pour un tombeau d’Anatole is published by Carcanet.
Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
Anthony Pagden teaches at UCLA. His most recent books are La ilustración y sus enemigos and, as editor, The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union.
J.G.A. Pocock’s The First Decline and Fall, the third volume of a series devoted to Gibbon and his work, is due from Cambridge. He is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Katha Pollitt is the author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics and Culture.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Andrew Sugden, an editor at Science in Cambridge, used to be a forest ecologist in tropical America.
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.
