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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 7 · 1 April 2004
Gilberto Perez: Godard’s Method
- Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 by Colin MacCabe
Ivor Potts, Mary Elkins, William McCarthy, Jordan Scher, James McCarthy, Joel Kanter, John Roberts, Robert Ball, Colin Buckland
Anne Hollander: Arshile Gorky
- Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera
- Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings edited by Janie Lee and Melvin Lader
Richard Rorty on anti-terrorism and the national security state
David Runciman: Taking a Chance on War
Ed Harriman: What Happened at al-Hilla
- A Time of Our Choosing: America’s War in Iraq by Todd Purdom
Peter Clarke on Gordon Brown
- The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown by William Keegan
John Barrell on the trail of the mysterious John Taylor
Sara Roy on the silencing of US academics
Gillian Darley: Ernö Goldfinger
- Ernö Goldfinger: The Life of an Architect by Nigel Warburton
Andrew Saint on a serial killer and the World’s Fair
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Peter Wollen on Kazimir Malevich
- Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism edited by Matthew Drutt
Rosalind Krauss: Parsing Picasso
- Picasso and the Invention of Cubism by Pepe Karmel
James Secord on a prehistoric apocalypse
- When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time by Michael Benton
Emily Wilson reads ZZ Packer
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Lorna Scott Fox: Aznar’s Mistake
Contributors
John Barrell has coedited, with Jon Mee, an eight-volume edition of political trials of the 1790s for Pickering and Chatto. He teaches at the University of York.
John Burnside’s most recent novel is Glister. He teaches at the University of St Andrews.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Peter Clarke’s book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Indian independence in August.
Gillian Darley’s Villages of Vision is published in a revised edition this month.
Ed Harriman is a journalist and television documentary film-maker.
Anne Hollander wrote the text for Woman in the Mirror, Richard Avedon’s last collection of photographs. She is now at work on a study of literary clothing.
Rosalind Krauss teaches at Columbia University in New York and is an editor of October magazine. The Picasso Papers is published by Thames and Hudson.
Andrew Motion’s memoir In the Blood is out from Faber.
Gilberto Perez teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York and is the author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium.
Richard Rorty, whose books included Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Truth and Progress, was professor emeritus of comparative literature and philosophy at Stanford University. He died in June 2007.
Sara Roy, the author of The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development, is a senior research scholar at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. She wrote about the Israeli withdrawl from Gaza in the summer issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
David Runciman teaches politics at Cambridge. He is the author of Political Hypocrisy and co-author of Representation, published by Polity Press.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London.
Lorna Scott Fox is an editor and translator who lives in London.
James Secord’s account of pre-Darwinian evolutionary debates, Victorian Sensation, is out in paperback.
Emily Wilson teaches classics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her latest book is The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint.
Peter Wollen teaches at UCLA.