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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 23 · 2 December 2004
Neal Ascherson on Trotsky
- The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-21 by Isaac Deutscher Buy this book
- The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-29 by Isaac Deutscher Buy this book
- The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-40 by Isaac Deutscher Buy this book
Slavoj Zizek, Christina Gombar, Abigail King, Rollo Burgess, Jack Adrian, Lindesay Irvine, Julian Rathbone, George Wedd
Anatol Lieven on the right-wing backlash
- What’s the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right by Thomas Frank
Margaret MacMillan on the First World War
- Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy by David Stevenson Buy this book
James Davidson on oracles
Daniel Soar on Saramago
- The Double by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa Buy this book
John Sturrock on football slang
Ian Sansom enjoys a novel about work
Julian Bell on the life and art of William Coldstream
E.S. Turner on the Metropolitan Line
- Metro-Land: British Empire Exhibition Number by Oliver Green Buy this book
Terry Eagleton on Bram Stoker and Irish Protestant Gothic
- From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker by Paul Murray
Peter Campbell on Paula Rego
Dinah Birch on Thackeray’s daughter
- Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie by Henrietta Garnett
Anne Barton on literary romance
- The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare by Helen Cooper Buy this book
Contributors
Neal Ascherson has reported from Central and Eastern Europe since the 1960s. He is the author of Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland, The Struggles for Poland and Black Sea.
Anne Barton, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is the author, most recently, of Essays, Mainly Shakespearean and a study of Byron’s Don Juan.
Julian Bell is the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which came out last month.
Dinah Birch’s new book, Our Victorian Education, will be published later this year.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
James Davidson is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Terry Eagleton’s Ideology: An Introduction has been reissued with a new preface.
Mark Ford’s collections of poetry are Landlocked and Soft Sift. He teaches at University College London.
Anatol Lieven reported from Moscow for the Times from 1990 to 1996 and is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. His latest book is Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World.
Margaret MacMillan’s Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 came out three years ago. She is a professor of history at the University of Toronto.
Bill Manhire, who teaches at Victoria University, Wellington, is the editor of The Wide White Page, an anthology of poetry and fiction (from Dante to Michael Chabon) about Antarctica. His Collected Poems came out in 2001.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Daniel Soar is an editor at the London Review.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
E.S. Turner wrote his first article for the Dundee Courier in 1927. He contributed to Punch for 53 years, and wrote more than eighty pieces for the London Review. His last social history was Unholy Pursuits: The Wayward Parsons of Grub Street. He died on 6 July 2006, at the age of 96.
