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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 1 · 8 January 2004
Leo Baxendale, L.J. Hurst, Ross Arthur, Alex Dillon, Malcolm Gluck, Dewi Jones, Gautam Premnath, Mieke Gordon, Paul Kriwaczek, Editor, ‘London Review’, Bill Guariento, John Barnes, Geoffrey Ridley Barrow
Jenny Diski on Germaine Greer
Peter Campbell on Gerhard Richter
Nicholas Spice: Wild Analysis
- Wild Analysis by Sigmund Freud, edited by Adam Phillips, translated by Alan Bance
Michael Byers on the trial of Saddam
Ilan Pappe on the prehistory of the latest proposals
Thomas Jones explores dictators’ bunkers
Paul Laity dances with Mata Hari
- Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War by Tammy Proctor
Carl Elliott takes the red pill
- Constructing RSI: Belief and Desire by Yolande Lucire
- Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect' by Daniel Moerman
Barbara Everett on ‘The Winter’s Tale’
Emily Wilson on Sappho
- If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson Buy this book
- The Sappho History by Margaret Reynolds
- Sappho's Leap by Erica Jong
Christopher Tayler: Multofiction
- Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
Iain Sinclair: Out of Essex
Contributors
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Carl Elliott is a visiting associate professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, and the author of Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream.
Barbara Everett’s books include Young Hamlet and Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Paul Laity edited the Left Book Club Anthology. Formerly an editor at the London Review, he now works at the Guardian.
Ilan Pappe teaches in the political science department at Haifa University and is the chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Israel.
Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances appeared last year. Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire, a documentary fiction, will come out in 2009.
Nicholas Spice is the publisher of the LRB.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
Emily Wilson teaches classics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her latest book is The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint.
