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Contents

Vol. 25 No. 19   ·   9 October 2003

Andrew O’Hagan: Surveillance

Letters

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’

Robert VanderMolen

Come hungry, leave edgy

Sukhdev Sandhu excavates Brick Lane

  • Brick Lane by Monica Ali

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

The Good Old Days

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

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones on Precious Ramotswe

Elizabeth Spelman on Richard Sennett

  • Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett

At the Royal Academy

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

August Kleinzahler

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

Diary

Rebecca Solnit drives by the Sierra Nevada

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: autumn leaves in gutter (photograph)

Featured articles

Come hungry, leave edgy
Sukhdev Sandhu excavates Brick Lane

The Good Old Days
Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Dacha-Owning Classes

Diary
Rebecca Solnit drives by the Sierra Nevada

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones on Precious Ramotswe

At the Royal Academy
Peter Campbell: How to Draw Horses