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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 17 · 2 September 2004
Perry Anderson: The Fall of France
- La France qui tombe by Nicolas Baverez
- La Face cachée du ‘Monde’: Du contre-pouvoir aux abus de pouvoir by Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen
David Wootton, Jeffrey McGowan, Clifford Story, Michael Scott, Barnaby Conrad, James Grieve, John Williams, A.R.W. Forrest, Rodney Bolt, Rupert Read, Paul Taylor, Derek Robinson, Elizabeth Thompson Colleary, Ben Francis
Michael Wood: Neruda’s Hocus Pocus
- Memoirs by Pablo Neruda, translated by Hardie St Martin Buy this book
- Isla Negra: A Bilingual Edition by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid Buy this book
- The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems edited by Mark Eisner Buy this book
Slavoj Žižek: Leftist Platitudes
Colin Kidd: The Invention of Globalisation
- Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons by C.A. Bayly
Christopher Tayler: Louis de Berničres’s Decency
Mary Beard: Nero’s Ups and Downs
Barbara Everett: Thinking about Hamlet
Thomas Jones: Pole-Vaulting
Colin Burrow: Prince Charles’s Spanish Adventure
- The Prince and the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match by Glyn Redworth Buy this book
Lorna Scott Fox: Martha Gellhorn’s Wars
Hal Foster: Ed Ruscha’s Hollywood Sublime
Richard Adams: The great Ryanair Disaster
- Aircraft by David Pascoe Buy this book
- Aviation Insecurity: The New Challenges of Air Travel by Andrew Thomas Buy this book
- Airline Survival Kit by Nawal Taneja
- Ryanair by Siobhán Creaton
Norman Dombey: The Nuclear Threat
Wilson Firth: A Psychiatrist’s Story
Contributors
Richard Adams, a journalist on the Guardian, is writing a biography of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor.
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and the editor of the Penguin Metaphysical Poetry.
Norman Dombey is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
Barbara Everett’s books include Young Hamlet and Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin.
Wilson Firth is a consultant psychiatrist, based in Leicester.
Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Thomas Jones is one of the LRB’s contributing editors.
Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.
Lorna Scott Fox’s most recent translation is Pablo Picasso-Gertrude Stein: Correspondence.
Alex Smith’s most recent collection is Ocean Myths.
Christopher Tayler is the Guardian’s chief fiction reviewer and lives in London.
Michael Wood’s books include America in the Movies, The Magician’s Doubts, The Road to Delphi and, most recently, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. He teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton.
Slavoj Žižek is a dialectical-materialist philosopher and psychoanalyst. He also co-directs the International Centre for Humanities at Birkbeck College. The Parallax View appeared last year.
