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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 16 · 21 August 2003
August Kleinzahler: My Big Bad Brother
Christopher Price, Patrick Rossiter, Joseph Nuttgens, Jennifer Wilkinson, Iain Bailey, Roger Etherington, Peter Le Pelley, Stephen Kanocz, Russell Seitz, Richard Bowring, Editor, ‘London Review’, Rod Eastwood
Julian Bell: The Suspect Adrian Stokes
- 'The Quattro Cento’ and ‘Stones of Rimini’ by Adrian Stokes
- Art and Its Discontents by Richard Read
Slavoj Žižek: Highsmith is the One
- Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
Neal Ascherson: Khrushchev the Stalinist
- Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
Tom Vanderbilt on ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
- The Manchurian Candidate: BFI Film Classics by Greil Marcus
Andrew O’Hagan: Slayer Slang and Bling Bling
Judith Butler defends the right to criticise Israel
Jeremy Harding on Susan Sontag
- Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag Buy this book
- Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics by David Levi Strauss
James Lasdun: Smooching the Swan
- Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self by Marina Warner
Peter Campbell on Ossie Clark
Thomas Jones on Tobias Hill
- The Cryptographer by Tobias Hill
Christian Schütze on the wartime bombing of Germany
- On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell
- Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940-45 by Jörg Friedrich
- Payback by Gert Ledig, translated by Shaun Whiteside
John Sutherland: My Grandmother the Thief
Contributors
Neal Ascherson has reported from Central and Eastern Europe since the 1960s. He is the author of Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland, The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea.
Julian Bell is the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which came out last month.
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at Berkeley, is writing a book on the critique of state violence in Jewish thought.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
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.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
James Lasdun’s novel, The Horned Man, appeared in 2002. His most recent book of poetry is Landscape with Chainsaw.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Don Paterson’s Orpheus, a version of Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus, will be published later this year. His previous collections include Landing Light, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Eyes and God’s Gift to Women.
Christian Schütze was born in 1927 in Dresden. In 1943-44, he was part of an anti-aircraft battery, then briefly a soldier, before being taken prisoner by the Americans. He recently retired as home affairs editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Tom Vanderbilt is the author of Survival City: Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America. He lives in Brooklyn.
Susan Wheeler is the author of three collections of poetry; the most recent is Source Codes. She teaches at Princeton and at the New School in New York City.
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.
