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Contents

Vol. 26 No. 5   ·   4 March 2004

After the Revolution

Neal Ascherson reports from Georgia

Letters

Agnes Hodgson, Alan Thomas, David Beer, Jonathan Bate, Ian Birchall, John Sabapathy, Jeremy Bernstein, Malcolm Thick, Michael Carley, Lanny Anderson

Jenny Diski on Erving Goffman

  • Goffman's Legacy edited by Javier Treviño

Charles Simic

Frank Kermode on Winnicott and psychoanalysis

  • Winnicott: Life and Work by Robert Rodman

Some girls want out

Hilary Mantel on spectacular saintliness

  • The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint by Rudolph Bell and Cristina Mazzoni
  • Saint Thérèse of Lisieux by Kathryn Harrison
  • The Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty by Helen King
  • A Wonderful Little Girl: The True Story of Sarah Jacob, the Welsh Fasting Girl by Siân Busby

Cartwheels over Broken Glass

Andrew O’Hagan on worshipping Morrissey

  • Saint Morrissey by Mark Simpson
  • The Smiths: Songs that Saved Your Life by Simon Goddard

Adam Phillips on Dylan Thomas

  • Dylan Thomas: A New Life by Andrew Lycett

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: ‘Scouting for Boys’

Matthew Reynolds reads Don Paterson

David Trotter on Kafka at the pictures

  • Kafka Goes to the Movies by Hanns Zischler, translated by Susan Gillespie

Frederick Seidel

Jessica Olin: Jhumpa Lahiri

  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Jerry Fodor on what consciousness isn’t

  • Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd

At the National Gallery

Nicholas Penny: El Greco

Bernard Porter on cannabis and empire

  • Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition 1800-1928 by James Mills

Carol Brightman on James Baker’s drop-the-debt tour

James Lasdun: Losing in Las Vegas

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Players at card table

Featured articles

After the Revolution
Neal Ascherson reports from Georgia

Some girls want out
Hilary Mantel on spectacular saintliness

Cartwheels over Broken Glass
Andrew O’Hagan on worshipping Morrissey

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: ‘Scouting for Boys’

At the National Gallery
Nicholas Penny: El Greco