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Contents

Vol. 25 No. 18   ·   25 September 2003

Ian Sansom on D.J. Enright

Letters

Margery Rowe, Frank Kermode, Felicity Harper, Alan Davies, Emanuel Goldman, Timothy Burns, Denis MacShane, Max Wright, Sardar Ahmed Shah Jan, Felix Wiedler, Rob Close, Julian Rathbone

Susan Sontag: Anna Banti’s Artemisia

Smut-Finder General

Colin Kidd: The Dark Side of American Liberalism

  • Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History by James Morone

Greg Dening on Australia

  • The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia by John Gascoigne
  • Looking for Blackfella’s Point: An Australian History of Place by Mark McKenna
  • Words for Country: Landscape and Language in Australia by Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths
  • The Land Is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia edited by Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson

Stephen Sedley: Adversarial or Inquisitorial?

  • The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial by John Langbein
  • Archbold: International Criminal Courts edited by Rodney Dixon, Richard May and Karim Khan

Rosemary Hill: Hooray for Harriette

  • Harriette Wilson's 'Memoirs' edited by Lesley Blanch
  • The Courtesan’s Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King by Frances Wilson

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Anti-Socialism

It wasn’t him, it was her

Jenny Diski: Nietzsche’s Bad Sister

  • Nietzsche’s Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche by Carol Diethe

Sally Mapstone: The Variousness of Robert Fergusson

  • ‘Heaven-Taught Fergusson’: Robert Burns’s Favourite Scottish Poet edited by Robert Crawford

Stephen Walsh on Prokofiev

  • Prokofiev: From Russia to the West 1891-1935 by David Nice

At the British Museum

Peter Campbell: London 1753

William Wootten on David Jones

  • Wedding Poems by David Jones, edited by Thomas Dilworth
  • David Jones: Writer and Artist by Keith Alldritt

David A. Bell: A Nation of Beefeaters

  • Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation by Ben Rogers

Miles Taylor on Tony Benn

  • Free at Last: Diaries 1991-2001 by Tony Benn
  • Free Radical: New Century Essays by Tony Benn

William Skidelsky on Geoff Dyer

  • Yoga for People who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer

William Deresiewicz on Julio Llamazares

  • The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

Diary

Stuart Kerr: On Trial in Turkey

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: car and housemovers

Featured articles

Smut-Finder General
Colin Kidd: The Dark Side of American Liberalism

It wasn’t him, it was her
Jenny Diski: Nietzsche’s Bad Sister

Diary
Stuart Kerr: On Trial in Turkey

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Anti-Socialism

At the British Museum
Peter Campbell: London 1753