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. Articles marked
are not currently available in the LRB online archive.
Contents
Vol. 25 No. 7 · 3 April 2003
David Runciman: The Widening Atlantic
- Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan
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
Ross McKibbin: Blair, Brown and the US
Slavoj Žižek: What’s going on?
Peter Clarke: Lloyd George versus Haig
Charles Glass reports from an observation post in Northern Iraq
Richard Poirier: ‘But oh – Vivienne!’
- Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones
David Simpson on Terry Eagleton
Jeremy Harding on France’s foreign policy
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
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
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
Jacob Beaver works in the Department of Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art.
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.
Ruth Franklin is associate literary editor at the New Republic.
David Garrioch teaches in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University in Melbourne. His most recent book is The Making of Revolutionary Paris.
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.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
Edward Hooper’s The River came out in 1999. A fuller account of his latest findings appears in Origin of HIV and Emerging Persistent Viruses, the proceedings of a conference held at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Danny Karlin, who teaches English at University College London, is the author of Browning’s Hatreds.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.
Richard Poirier, founding editor of Raritan, is chairman of the board of the Library of America.
Carl Rakosi began publishing poetry in the early 1920s. He died in June 2004.
David Runciman’s new book is Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond.
David Simpson teaches English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern will come out from Cambridge next year.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, which ran in the LRB from March to September 2003, is out from Viking.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.