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Jeremy Harding

Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.

From the London Review dated 19 February 2004

What to Wear to School

“Teachers tell worrying stories which depict the veil as the beginning of selective opposition to the curriculum. This might, for example, include a Muslim student’s refusal to do gym or discuss certain areas of natural science, or to countenance teaching on the Holocaust, and then shade off into abuse or physical violence after a classrom session on the Middle East. Teachers are also clear that the wearing of religious symbols tends to exacerbate the divisions over heated issues such as Palestine.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Mother Country (2006)  Buy this book
  • Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Jeremy Harding and John Sturrock (2004)  Buy this book
  • The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man’s Gate (2000)
  • Small Wars, Small Mercies (1993)
  • Modern French Philosophy by Vincent Descombes, translated by Jeremy Harding and Lorna Scott Fox (1981)

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In the LRB archive

A Man or a Girl’s Blouse? · 14 August 2008

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding tries to listen to the World Service · 31 July 2008

Saved and Depoliticised at One Stroke · 17 July 2008

subscriber-only content In Order of Rank · 8 May 2008

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

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding on Commemoration · 6 March 2008

Disaffiliate, Reaffiliate, Kill Again · 7 February 2008

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

Short Cuts: Embedded in Iraq · 29 November 2007

subscriber-only content Praise for the Hands · 18 October 2007

Through the Trapdoor · 19 July 2007

Sarko, Ségo & Co. · 26 April 2007

It Migrates to Them · 8 March 2007

At Quai Branly: Jeremy Harding on 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 · 16 November 2006

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

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding on Spook Fiction · 3 August 2006

The Habit of War · 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 · 23 February 2006

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

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding on the benefits of self-censorship · 23 February 2006

Diary from Paris · 1 December 2005

subscriber-only content Mother One, Mother Two · 31 March 2005

subscriber-only content Take out all the adjectives · 6 May 2004

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

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding considers France’s role in Rwanda · 6 May 2004

What to Wear to School · 19 February 2004

subscriber-only content Fleeing the Mother Tongue · 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

subscriber-only content Humanitarian Art · 21 August 2003

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

Short Cuts: Jeremy Harding on France’s foreign policy · 3 April 2003

subscriber-only content Old Europe · 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 · 2 January 2003

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

Call me Ahab · 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 · 25 July 2002

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

subscriber-only content Anxiety in the Dordogne · 9 May 2002

The Late Jonas Savimbi · 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

subscriber-only content The Groom Stripped Bare by His Suitor · 4 January 2001

  • Lennon Remembers by Jann Wenner

Europe’s War · 29 April 1999

Kosovo’s Big Men · 4 February 1999

subscriber-only content Delirium · 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

Best Remain Seated · 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

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive The Uninvited · 3 February 2000

 not available in archive A State of One’s Own · 19 August 1999

 not available in archive No One Leaves Her Place in Line · 7 May 1998

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