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Contents
Vol. 25 No. 19 · 9 October 2003
Andrew O’Hagan: Surveillance
Clancy Sigal, August Kleinzahler, Ken Snyder, David Craig, Sally Connolly, Blair Worden, Frank Kermode, Michael Hope, Mike Killingworth, Tony Pastor, Gillan Bridgwood, Gerard McBurney, Clarence White, W.L. Smith STD, Nicholas Faith, Rebecca Solnit, Rod McLoughlin, Jonathan Calder, Anthea Maybury, Editor, ‘London Review’
Sukhdev Sandhu excavates Brick Lane
Eleanor Birne on Asperger’s
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
Jerry Fodor: Dr. Livingstone, I infer
- Thinking without Words by José Luis Bermúdez
Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Dacha-Owning Classes
- Summerfolk 1710-2000: A History of the Dacha by Stephen Lovell
- Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc edited by David Crowley and Susan Reid
- Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin’s Russia by Jukka Gronow
- The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism by Caroline Humphrey Buy this book
Thomas Jones on Precious Ramotswe
Elizabeth Spelman on Richard Sennett
- Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett
Peter Campbell: How to Draw Horses
Jeremy Harding on Rimbaud
- Rimbaud Complete edited by Wyatt Mason
- Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud, edited by Martin Sorrell
- L'Art de Rimbaud by Michel Murat
- Arthur Rimbaud by Jean-Jacques Lefrère
- Arthur Rimbaud: Presence of an Enigma by Jean-Luc Steinmetz, edited by Jon Graham
- Rimbaud by Graham Robb
Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Her Sister Arabella edited by Scott Lewis
Simon Adams on James VI & I
- The Cradle King: A Life of James VI & I by Alan Stewart
Dinah Birch: Elizabeth Stoddard, Crusader against Duty
- Stories by Elizabeth Stoddard, edited by Susanne Opfermann and Yvonne Roth
Jessica Olin: ‘If you hate this place so much, why don’t you leave?’
- Bending Heaven by Jessica Francis Kane
Eric Klinenberg: Sinful Cities?
- The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea by Thomas Bender
- Dead Cities: and Other Tales by Mike Davis
Rebecca Solnit drives by the Sierra Nevada
Contributors
Simon Adams’s Leicester and the Court: Essays on Elizabethan Politics came out in 2002.
Dinah Birch’s new book, Our Victorian Education, will be published later this year.
Eleanor Birne lives in London.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Sheila Fitzpatrick teaches at the University of Chicago. She is the editor (with Stuart Macintyre) of Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian History and Politics.
Jerry Fodor is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
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.
Eric Klinenberg, who teaches sociology and urban studies at New York University, is the author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.
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.
Jessica Olin lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Sukhdev Sandhu’s London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City was published in the summer. He writes about film for the Daily Telegraph.
Rebecca Solnit lives in San Francisco. Her books include Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power and A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
Elizabeth Spelman teaches philosophy at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is working on a slim book exploring the nature of abundance.
Robert VanderMolen lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Breath appeared in 2000.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is the Chace Family Professor of English at Yale. Her new book is Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.