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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 19 · 7 October 2004
Adam Shatz on the Algerian army’s leading novelist
- The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra, translated by John Cullen Buy this book
- Wolf Dreams by Yasmina Khadra, translated by Linda Black Buy this book
- Morituri by Yasmina Khadra, translated by David Herman Buy this book
David A. Bell, Ann Jefferson, Roger Partridge, Paul Burns
Patrick Cockburn on Iraq’s disintegration
Stephen Sedley: Who will speak for the judges?
R.W. Johnson on Macmillan and the Guardsmen
- The Guardsmen: Harold Macmillan, Three Friends and the World They Made by Simon Ball Buy this book
Rosemary Hill: Love and madness in 18th century London
- Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century by John Brewer Buy this book
Susan Eilenberg: At home with the Carlyles
- Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage by Rosemary Ashton Buy this book
John Sturrock: Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy
Peter Campbell on Gwen and Augustus John
Thomas Jones reads A.L. Kennedy’s new novel
Ian Jackman on killer SUVs
- High and Mighty: SUVs, the World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way by Keith Bradsher Buy this book
Alison Jolly on eastern ground apes
- Lowly Origin: Where, When and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up by Jonathan Kingdon Buy this book
Adam Kuper: Malinowski’s Papuan peregrinations
- Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist 1884-1920 by Michael Young Buy this book
Andreas Huyssen: Cold War culture conflicts
- The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War by David Caute Buy this book
Tom Paulin: Trimble’s virtues
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Cockburn is a foreign correspondent on the Independent and has been visiting Iraq since 1977. Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq was published in April.
Susan Eilenberg teaches in the English department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia, is a founding editor of New German Critique and the author, most recently, of Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory.
Ian Jackman lives in New York.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Alison Jolly is a biologist at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Lucy’s Legacy and Lords and Lemurs.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Adam Kuper, whose most recent book is The Reinvention of Primitive Society, is a professor of anthropology at Brunel University.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
Adam Shatz is an editor at the London Review.
Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, which ran in the LRB from March to September 2003, is out from Viking.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Robert VanderMolen lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Breath appeared in 2000.