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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 5 · 4 March 2004
Neal Ascherson reports from Georgia
Agnes Hodgson, Alan Thomas, David Beer, Jonathan Bate, Ian Birchall, John Sabapathy, Jeremy Bernstein, Malcolm Thick, Michael Carley, Lanny Anderson
Jenny Diski on Erving Goffman
- Goffman's Legacy edited by Javier Treviño
Frank Kermode on Winnicott and psychoanalysis
- Winnicott: Life and Work by Robert Rodman
Hilary Mantel on spectacular saintliness
- The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint by Rudolph Bell and Cristina Mazzoni
- Saint Thérèse of Lisieux by Kathryn Harrison
- The Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty by Helen King
- A Wonderful Little Girl: The True Story of Sarah Jacob, the Welsh Fasting Girl by Siân Busby
Andrew O’Hagan on worshipping Morrissey
- Saint Morrissey by Mark Simpson
- The Smiths: Songs that Saved Your Life by Simon Goddard
Adam Phillips on Dylan Thomas
- Dylan Thomas: A New Life by Andrew Lycett
Thomas Jones: ‘Scouting for Boys’
Matthew Reynolds reads Don Paterson
David Trotter on Kafka at the pictures
- Kafka Goes to the Movies by Hanns Zischler, translated by Susan Gillespie
Jessica Olin: Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jerry Fodor on what consciousness isn’t
- Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd
Bernard Porter on cannabis and empire
- Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition 1800-1928 by James Mills
Carol Brightman on James Baker’s drop-the-debt tour
James Lasdun: Losing in Las Vegas
Contributors
Neal Ascherson’s books include The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea. He is an honorary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Carol Brightman is the author of Total Insecurity: The Myth of American Omnipotence, which will appear from Verso in the autumn.
Jenny Diski has finally finished her novel Apology for the Woman Writing, which will be published in November.
Jerry Fodor is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
James Lasdun’s novel, The Horned Man, appeared in 2002. His most recent book of poetry is Landscape with Chainsaw.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Jessica Olin lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.
Matthew Reynolds’s last book was The Realms of Verse; he is now reading a lot of literary translations.
Frederick Seidel’s The Cosmos Trilogy is out from Farrar, Straus.
Charles Simic has a new book of poems, That Little Something, just out from Harcourt. He is the US poet laureate.
David Trotter is a professor of English at Cambridge and the author of The English Novel in History, The Making of the Reader and, most recently, Cinema and Modernism.
