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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 10 · 22 May 2003
Slavoj Žižek: Improve Your Performance!
Fenella Roberts, Keith Flett, Bradley Winterton, Linda Hart, Sarah Whittall, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, David Simpson, Justin Horton, Joseph Diamante
Donald MacKenzie: Ethnoaccountancy
- Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego and the Death of Enron by Robert Bryce
- Enron: The Rise and Fall by Loren Fox
Adam Phillips: ‘Paranoid Modernism’
- The Short Sharp Life of T.E. Hulme by Robert Ferguson
- Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis and the Professionalisation of English Society by David Trotter
Jenny Diski: In the Vilna Ghetto
- The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 1939-44 by Herman Kruk, edited by Benjamin Harshav, translated by Barbara Harshav
Leofranc Holford-Strevens: Do you speak Punic?
- Bilingualism and the Latin Language by J.N. Adams
Thomas Jones on the Matrix
R.W. Johnson: All about Eden
- Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden, First Earl of Avon 1897-1977 by D.R. Thorpe
- The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950-57 edited by Peter Catterall
Miles Taylor on George Lansbury
- George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour by John Shepherd
Lorna Scott Fox on Victor Serge
- Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hope by Susan Weissman
Peter Campbell on public sculpture
David A. Bell: The Philosophes and the Republic of Letters
- Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in 18th-Century France by L.W.B. Brockliss
- The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon by Colin Jones
Michael Hofmann: The Charm of Hugo Williams
David Halperin on Jamie O’Neill
Christopher Tayler on William Gibson
- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Contributors
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
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.
Raymond Friel’s collections of poems include Seeing the River and Renfrewshire in Old Photographs.
David Haglund is completing a PhD on Wallace Stevens at Balliol College, Oxford.
David Halperin teaches English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and is an honorary professor of sociology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. His most recent book is How to Do the History of Homosexuality.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
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.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens is consultant scholar-editor at OUP.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Donald MacKenzie’s Material Markets: How Economic Agents Are Constructed will be published by Oxford. He teaches sociology at Edinburgh University.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Robert Pinsky’s books of poems include Sadness and Happiness, The Figured Wheel and Jersey Rain.
Lorna Scott Fox is an editor and translator who lives in London.
Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, which ran in the LRB from March to September 2003, is out from Viking.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Miles Taylor teaches history at the University of York. His life of the Chartist Ernest Jones came out last year.
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.
