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Contents

Vol. 26 No. 2   ·   22 January 2004

In the Streets of Londonistan

John Upton: Terror, Muslims and the Met

Letters

Stephen Green, Michael Pollak, Michael Brearley, Rob Close, Richard Thomas, Ian Leslie, Keith Flett, Graham Brown, John Lloyd, Colin Armstrong, J.H. Stape, John Sutherland, Don Locke, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Manfred Schulz, Anne-Marie Smith

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones on Princess Di and Laura Palmer

T.J. Clark: Three Poussin Poems

Four-Day Caesar

Mary Beard: Tacitus and the Emperors

  • Tacitus: Histories I edited by Cynthia Damon

Taking Sides

John Mullan: on the high road with Bonnie Prince Charlie

  • The ’45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising by Christopher Duffy
  • Samuel Johnson in Historical Context edited by J.C.D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill

Jonathan Rée looks for Spinoza

  • Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio

Frank Kermode on Lady Gregory

At the British Museum

Peter Campbell: Living, Dying and Enlightenment

Miranda Seymour: Birds’ claw omelettes with Vernon Lee

  • Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography by Vineta Colby

Caroline Murphy: Camilla and the sex-motherers

  • Camilla: An Intimate Portrait by Rebecca Tyrrel

Michael André Bernstein reads Norman Rush

  • Mortals by Norman Rush

John Sutherland on the crisis in academic publishing

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: View of road from car driving seat

Featured articles

In the Streets of Londonistan
John Upton: Terror, Muslims and the Met

Four-Day Caesar
Mary Beard: Tacitus and the Emperors

Taking Sides
John Mullan: on the high road with Bonnie Prince Charlie

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones on Princess Di and Laura Palmer

At the British Museum
Peter Campbell: Living, Dying and Enlightenment