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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 2 · 25 January 2001
Adam Thorpe, Hugh Pennington, John Thompson, Edward Luttwak, Edward Said, Gerard Watson, Peter Wilson, Murray Sayle
Lorna Sage on Henry Green
David Trotter
- Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis by Paul O'Keeffe
- Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer by Paul Edwards
Thomas Jones watching the Spectator
James Hall
- The Artist's Body edited by Tracey Warr and Amelia Jones
- Five Hundred Self-Portraits edited by Julian Bell
- Renaissance Self-Portraiture by Joanna Woods-Marsden
Malcolm Bull on Slavoj Žižek
- The Fragile Absolute or why is the christian legacy worth fighting for? by Slavoj Žižek
Glen Newey
- Profit over People: Neo-Liberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky
- Acts of Aggression: Policing ‘Rogue’ States by Noam Chomsky and Ramsey Clark, edited by Edward Said
- The Umbrella of US Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of US Policy by Noam Chomsky
- The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo by Noam Chomsky
Peter Campbell: Gasometers
Avi Shlaim explains his disenchantment with Ehud Barak
Robert Irwin
- A Vision of the Middle East: An Intellectual Biography of Albert Hourani by Abdulaziz Al-Sudairi
Andy Beckett
- Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir by Marc Cooper
Contributors
Andy Beckett’s Pinochet in Piccadilly is out in paperback. He is writing a book about Britain in the 1970s.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Malcolm Bull is the head of art history and theory at the Ruskin in Oxford. His books include Seeing Things Hidden: Apocalypse, Vision and Totality.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at the LSE, has written a number of books on terrorism and human rights.
James Hall’s The World as Sculpture is published in paperback by Pimlico.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Frank Kermode’s most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. He lives in Cambridge.
Glen Newey is a reader in politics at Strathclyde University.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
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.
Lorna Sage died in January 2001. Part of her autobiography, Bad Blood, for which she won the Whitbread Biography Prize, was first published in the LRB in 1993.
Avi Shlaim, a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, is the author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.
David Trotter is a professor of English at Cambridge and the author of The English Novel in History, The Making of the Reader and, most recently, Cinema and Modernism.