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Contents

Vol. 25 No. 7   ·   3 April 2003

A Bear Armed with a Gun

David Runciman: The Widening Atlantic

  • Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan

Letters

Ian Britain, Matthew Rendall, Maurice Coakley, Mary Evans, Keith Flett, Daniel Dennett, Mark Crees, Alan Penny, Valentin Lyubarsky, Chris Purnell, Paul Romney, A.J. Wade

Why did he risk it?

Ross McKibbin: Blair, Brown and the US

Slavoj Žižek: What’s going on?

Peter Clarke: Lloyd George versus Haig

  • Lloyd George: War Leader

Charles Glass reports from an observation post in Northern Iraq

In the Hyacinth Garden

Richard Poirier: ‘But oh – Vivienne!’

  • Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones

David Simpson on Terry Eagleton

Short Cuts

Jeremy Harding on France’s foreign policy

Aids and the Polio Vaccine

Edward Hooper finds new evidence

Christopher Tayler on Dave Eggers

  • You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

Danny Karlin on Julie Otsuka

  • When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Ruth Franklin on Stefan Zweig

  • The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig, translated by B.W. Huebsch

In the Marketplace

Peter Campbell goes to the picture-dealer’s

Daniel Soar: Man versus Machine

  • Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion by Feng-hsiung Hsu

John Sutherland on Douglas Jerrold

  • Douglas Jerrold: 1803-57 by Michael Slater

Carl Rakosi

David Garrioch: Dressing up and down in 18th century France

  • The Politics of Appearance: Representation of Dress in Revolutionary France by Richard Wrigley

Jacob Beaver on Harold Beaver

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Saggy attache case

Featured articles

A Bear Armed with a Gun
David Runciman: The Widening Atlantic

Why did he risk it?
Ross McKibbin: Blair, Brown and the US

In the Hyacinth Garden
Richard Poirier: ‘But oh – Vivienne!’

Aids and the Polio Vaccine
Edward Hooper finds new evidence

In the Marketplace
Peter Campbell goes to the picture-dealer’s

Short Cuts
Jeremy Harding on France’s foreign policy