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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 2 · 23 January 2003
Stefan Collini: Christopher Hitchens, Englishman
James Wood, Peter Pulzer, Alexander Hutchison, Elizabeth Clowes, Martin Scofield, William Myers, Bernard Bergonzi, Leo Vanderpot, Peter Heyworth
Hilary Mantel continues her memoir
Helen Vendler: Jorie Graham’s Daring
Steven Shapin: The Life of René Descartes
- Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes by Richard A. Watson
Anatol Lieven: Pakistan’s Predicament
Thomas Jones: Nephews and Daughters
Glen Newey: Bum Decade for the Royals
Peter Clarke: Jenkins, Healey, Crosland
- Denis Healey: A Life in Our Times by Edward Pearce
- Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey by Giles Radice
Arnold Rattenbury on Hamish Henderson
- Collected Poems and Songs by Hamish Henderson, edited by Raymond Ross
Peter Campbell on Mies van der Rohe
Dave Haslam on Ecstasy
- The Promised Land: Travels in Search of the Perfect E by Decca Aitkenhead
Peter Robins: Nicola Barker
- Behindlings by Nicola Barker
Robert VanderMolen: Poems
Joshua Brown: The Real Gangs of New York
- The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury
- Gangs of New York directed by Martin Scorsese (2002)
Rose George in the New Beirut
Contributors
Joshua Brown directs the American Social History Project at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life and the Crisis of Gilded Age America.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Peter Clarke’s book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Indian independence in August.
Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics. He teaches at Cambridge.
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.
Dave Haslam is a former Hacienda DJ, now a radio broadcaster on XFM and the author of Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City and Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’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.
Hilary Mantel’s most recent novel is Wolf Hall.
Glen Newey, whose books include Freedom of Speech: Counting the Costs and The Political Theory of John Gray, is a visiting research fellow at Helsinki Collegium.
Alice Oswald’s second book of poems, Dart, has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Arnold Rattenbury began as an editor (Our Time and Theatre Today), became an exhibition designer and is the author of seven volumes of poetry.
Peter Robins lives in London.
Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation was published last autumn.
Robert VanderMolen lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Breath appeared in 2000.
Helen Vendler has written books on Yeats, Herbert, Keats, Stevens and Heaney. The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets appeared in 1997.
