Jeremy Harding

Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB and the author of Mother Country, a memoir, among other books. He lives in France.

In the LRB Archive:

• What Europeans Talk about when They Talk about Brexit · 3 January 2019

• Ends of the Earth: ‘Mimesis: African Soldier’ · 6 December 2018

  • Mimesis: African Soldier by John Akomfrah

• At the Arts Club: Sanlé Sory · 25 October 2018

• Diary · 19 July 2018

• Fast Water off the Bow-Wave: George Oppen · 21 June 2018

  • 21 Poems by George Oppen, edited by David B. Hobbs

• At the Pompidou: David Goldblatt · 26 April 2018

• Report from Sirius B: ‘Phantom Africa’ · 22 March 2018

  • Phantom Africa by Michel Leiris, translated by Brent Hayes Edwards

• A Young Woman Who Was Meant to Kill Herself: Charlotte Salomon · 8 March 2018

  • Life? Or Theatre? by Charlotte Salomon
  • Charlotte by David Foenkinos, translated by Sam Taylor
  • Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory by Griselda Pollock
  • Charlotte Salomon: ‘Life? Or Theatre?’ A Selection of 450 Gouaches by Judith Belinfante and Evelyn Benesch

• At Tate Modern: Giacometti · 17 August 2017

• Podcast: Panthers in Algiers · 19 July 2017

• Bristling Ermine: R.W. Johnson · 4 May 2017

  • Look Back in Laughter: Oxford’s Postwar Golden Age by R.W. Johnson
  • How Long Will South Africa Survive? The Looming Crisis by R.W. Johnson

• Whose Republican Front? · 3 May 2017

• Teeter-Totters · 20 April 2017

  • Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the US-Mexico Boundary by Ronald Rael

• Candidate Macron: The French Elections · 16 March 2017

• Dead Man’s Voice: A Dictator Novel · 19 January 2017

  • The Dictator’s Last Night by Yasmina Khadra, translated by Julian Evans

• At the Whitechapel · 3 November 2016

• At the Centre Pompidou · 8 September 2016

• Short Cuts · 14 July 2016

• Video: The Theatre of Aspiration · 1 July 2016

• At the Grand Palais · 30 June 2016

• A Rage for Abstraction · 16 June 2016

  • The Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey through a City’s Poor and Bohemian Past by Luc Sante
  • How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Sudhir Hazareesingh

• Apartheid’s Last Stand · 17 March 2016

  • Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
  • A Short History of Modern Angola by David Birmingham
  • Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa by Piero Gleijeses
  • A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn
  • In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre by Lara Pawson
  • Cuito Cuanavale: Frontline Accounts by Soviet Soldiers by G. Shubin, I. Zhdarkin et al, translated by Tamara Reilly

• I am French · 21 January 2016

  • Who is Charlie? Xenophobia and the New Middle Class by Emmanuel Todd, translated by Andrew Brown

• At the RA: Richard Diebenkorn · 7 May 2015

• Short Cuts · 19 March 2015

• The Castaway: Algeria’s Camus · 4 December 2014

  • Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus, edited by Alice Kaplan, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
  • Camus brûlant by Benjamin Stora and Jean-Baptiste Péretié
  • Meursault, contre-enquête by Kamel Daoud

• Short Cuts · 20 November 2014

• Short Cuts · 25 September 2014

• Gloomy Pageant: Britain Comma Now · 31 July 2014

  • Mammon’s Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now by David Marquand

• Short Cuts: ‘Inside the Dream Palace’ · 6 February 2014

• In Däräsge Maryam · 23 January 2014

• In Shanghai · 10 October 2013

• Do it in Gaelic: Australia’s Boat-People · 26 September 2013

• Short Cuts · 18 July 2013

• Interview with a Dead Man: Witches of Impalahoek · 20 June 2013

  • Witchcraft and a Life in the New South Africa by Isak Niehaus

• Short Cuts · 11 April 2013

• A Kind of Greek: Frank Thompson · 7 March 2013

  • A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson by Peter Conradi

• Short Cuts · 24 January 2013

• Diary: Ash Dieback · 6 December 2012

• Short Cuts · 8 November 2012

• Short Cuts · 13 September 2012

• Short Cuts: ‘Magnum Contact Sheets’ · 2 August 2012

• i could’ve sold to russia or china: Bradley Manning · 19 July 2012

  • The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in US History by Chase Madar

• Short Cuts: The French Election · 10 May 2012

• Diary: In Bordeaux · 5 April 2012

• Short Cuts: ‘French Children Don’t Throw Food’ · 22 March 2012

• Europe at Bay: The Immigration Battle · 9 February 2012

• At the V&A: 50 Years of ‘Private Eye’ · 15 December 2011

• The Deaths Map: At the Mexican Border · 20 October 2011

• Diary: In Palestine · 25 August 2011

• Short Cuts: Marine Le Pen · 14 April 2011

• Diary: Hitchens · 31 March 2011

• Where the Jihadis Are: How to Spot a Jihadi · 17 February 2011

  • Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values and What It Means to Be Human by Scott Atran

• Short Cuts: Les WikiLeaks · 16 December 2010

• Made in Algiers: De Gaulle · 4 November 2010

  • Le mythe gaullien by Sudhir Hazareesingh
  • The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved by Jonathan Fenby

• Short Cuts: Basil Davidson · 5 August 2010

• Short Cuts: Caliban’s Lunch · 24 June 2010

• What We’re about to Receive: Food Insecurity · 13 May 2010

• Pavements Like Jelly: Paris Drowning · 28 January 2010

  • Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 by Jeffrey Jackson
  • Paris Inondé 1910

• Terrorist for Sale: Guantánamo · 5 November 2009

  • The Guantánamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of US Detention and Interrogation Practices by Laurel Fletcher and Eric Stover

• Paralysed by the Absence of Danger: Spain, 1937 · 24 September 2009

  • Letters from Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn
  • War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War by James Neugass
  • We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston

• Right, Left and Centre: Keith Kyle · 6 August 2009

• At the Allenby Bridge: Crossing the Jordan · 25 June 2009

• Islam and the Armies of Mammon: Islam and High Finance · 14 May 2009

• The Money that Prays: Sharia Finance · 30 April 2009

• Short Cuts: The French Foreign Legion · 26 March 2009

• Short Cuts: Ezra Pound in Italy · 23 October 2008

• A Man or a Girl’s Blouse?: Serbia after Karadzic · 14 August 2008

• Short Cuts: trying to listen to the World Service · 31 July 2008

• Saved and Depoliticised at One Stroke: the Dangers of Intervention · 17 July 2008

• In Order of Rank: Paris 1940 · 8 May 2008

  • Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond
  • Journal 1942-44 by Hélène Berr

• Short Cuts: on commemoration · 6 March 2008

• Disaffiliate, Reaffiliate, Kill Again: Régis Debray · 7 February 2008

  • Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography by Régis Debray, translated by John Howe

• Short Cuts: Embedded in Iraq · 29 November 2007

• Praise for the Hands: Rugby’s Early Years · 18 October 2007

  • The Original Rules of Rugby edited by Jed Smith

• Through the Trapdoor: Walter Benjamin’s Last Day · 19 July 2007

  • The Narrow Foothold by Carina Birman

• Sarko, Ségo & Co.: The Banlieues Go to the Polls · 26 April 2007

• It Migrates to Them: The Coming Megaslums · 8 March 2007

  • Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
  • Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis

• At Quai Branly: Jacques Chirac’s museum · 4 January 2007

• Short Cuts: Shot At Dawn · 30 November 2006

• Jeremy Harding goes to Beirut to meet the novelist Elias Khoury: ‘Before everything else, a writer of stories’ · 16 November 2006

• Short Cuts: Blair’s comedy turns · 7 September 2006

• Short Cuts: Spook Fiction · 3 August 2006

• The Habit of War: Eritrea · 20 July 2006

  • I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by Michela Wrong
  • Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at War edited by Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Martin Plaut
  • Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa edited by Robert Rotberg

• Behind the Sandwall: Morocco’s Shame · 23 February 2006

  • Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa’s Last Colony? by Toby Shelley

• Short Cuts: the benefits of self-censorship · 23 February 2006

• Diary: Among the Arsonists · 1 December 2005

• Mother One, Mother Two: a memoir · 31 March 2005

• Take out all the adjectives: The poetry of George Oppen · 6 May 2004

  • New Collected Poems by George Oppen, edited by Michael Davidson

• Short Cuts: France’s role in Rwanda · 6 May 2004

• What to Wear to School: Marianne gets rid of the veil · 19 February 2004

• Fleeing the Mother Tongue: Rimbaud · 9 October 2003

  • Rimbaud Complete edited by Wyatt Mason
  • Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud, edited by Martin Sorrell
  • L'Art de Rimbaud by Michel Murat
  • Arthur Rimbaud by Jean-Jacques Lefrère
  • Arthur Rimbaud: Presence of an Enigma by Jean-Luc Steinmetz, edited by Jon Graham
  • Rimbaud by Graham Robb

• Humanitarian Art: Susan Sontag · 21 August 2003

  • Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
  • Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics by David Levi Strauss

• Short Cuts: France’s foreign policy · 3 April 2003

• Old Europe: Britain in Bosnia · 20 February 2003

  • Indictment at The Hague: The Milosevic Regime and the Crimes of the Balkan Wars by Norman Cigar and Paul Williams
  • Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia by Brendan Simms
  • Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo by Fred Abrahams
  • Milosevic: A Biography by Adam LeBor

• Afternoonishness: Syd Barrett · 2 January 2003

  • Madcap: The Half-Life of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s Lost Genius by Tim Willis

• Call me Ahab: Moby-Dick · 31 October 2002

  • Moby-Dick, or, The Whale by Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker
  • Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live in by C.L.R. James
  • Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival by Clare Spark
  • Lucchesi and the Whale by Frank Lentricchia

• The Great Unleashing: The End of Jihad · 25 July 2002

  • Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel, translated by Anthony F. Roberts

• Anxiety in the Dordogne: The French Presidential Elections · 9 May 2002

• The Late Jonas Savimbi: The death of a Naipaulian Big Man · 21 March 2002

• At the Barbican: Pilger pictures · 23 August 2001

• Short Cuts: Milosevic is delivered to the Hague · 19 July 2001

• At the British Museum: The African Galleries · 10 May 2001

• At the Royal Academy: Botticelli · 5 April 2001

  • Botticelli's Dante

• The Groom Stripped Bare by His Suitor: John Lennon · 4 January 2001

  • Lennon Remembers by Jann Wenner

• The Uninvited: At The Rich Man’s Gate · 3 February 2000

• A State of One’s Own: Kosovo · 19 August 1999

• Europe’s War: Kosovo · 29 April 1999

• Diary: With the KLA · 4 February 1999

• Delirium: Arthur Rimbaud · 30 July 1998

  • Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl
  • A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Mark Treharne

• No One Leaves Her Place in Line: Martha Gellhorn · 7 May 1998

• Best Remain Seated: travel guides · 1 January 1998

  • Kenya by Hugh Finlay and Geoff Crowther
  • Borneo by Robert Pelton Young
  • Asia's Top Dive Sites edited by Fiona Nichols and Michael Stachels
  • South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland by Jon Murray et al
  • Southern Africa by Richard Cox
  • The World's Most Dangerous Places by Robert Pelton Young
  • South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland by Barbara McCrea et al
  • The Good Honeymoon Guide by Lucy Horne
  • Amnesty International Report 1997
  • Morocco by Barnaby Rogerson

• Elective Outsiders · 3 July 1997

  • Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology edited by Iain Sinclair
  • Nearly Too Much: The Poetry of J.H. Prynne by N.H. Reeve and Richard Kerridge
  • Carl Rakosi: Poems 1923-41 edited by Andrew Crozier
  • The Objectivists edited by Andrew McAllister

• The Frighteners · 20 March 1997

  • The Ends of the Earth by Robert Kaplan

• The Best Barnet · 20 February 1997

  • With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer by Susannah Clapp

• The Mercenary Business · 1 August 1996

• A Death in Eritrea · 6 July 1995

• The Red Card of Chaos · 8 June 1995

• In the Châtelet · 20 April 1995

  • François Villon: Complete Poems edited by Barbara Sargent-Bauer
  • Basil Bunting: Complete Poems edited by Richard Caddel

• Pale Ghosts · 12 January 1995

  • The Electronic Elephant: A Southern African Journey by Dan Jacobson
  • Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
  • None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer
  • The Rift: The Exile Experience of South Africans by Hilda Bernstein

• The Partisan · 23 June 1994

  • The Search for Africa: A History in the Making by Basil Davidson

• Du Maurier: A Lament · 24 March 1994

  • Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein

• God, what a victory! · 10 February 1994

  • Martyr’s Day: Chronicle of Small War by Michael Kelly
  • Battling for News: The Rise of the Woman Reporter by Anne Sebba
  • Women’s Letters in Wartime edited by Eva Figes
  • The War at Sixteen: Autobiography, Vol. II by Julien Green, translated by Euan Cameron

• Junk Mail · 23 September 1993

  • The Letters of William Burroughs, 1949-1959 edited by Oliver Harris

• One Eye on the Neighbours · 22 April 1993

  • A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique by William Finnegan
  • Conspicuous Destruction: War, Famine and the Reform Process in Mozambique by Karl Maier, Kemal Mustafa and Alex Vines
  • African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe by Doris Lessing

• Roadblocks · 9 May 1991

  • Fishing in Africa: A Guide to War and Corruption by Andrew Buckoke
  • Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent by Blaine Harden
  • The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand

• How the war in the Gulf affects the famine in Africa · 7 February 1991

• Soweto Diary · 11 October 1990

• Got to keep moving · 24 May 1990

  • Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop by Charles Shaar Murray
  • Autobiography by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe

• Her Guns · 8 March 1990

  • The View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn
  • Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally

• Diary · 31 August 1989

• Matsanga · 16 February 1989

• Diary · 2 February 1989

• The War in Angola · 1 September 1988

• Eritrean Revolution · 15 October 1987

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