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Contents

Vol. 26 No. 7   ·   1 April 2004

Self-Illuminated

Gilberto Perez: Godard’s Method

  • Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 by Colin MacCabe

Letters

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

The Precautionary Principle

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

Andrew Motion

John Barrell on the trail of the mysterious John Taylor

Short Cuts

Sara Roy on the silencing of US academics

Don’t teach me

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

In Lille

Peter Campbell on Rubens

Emily Wilson reads ZZ Packer

  • Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

Lorna Scott Fox: Aznar’s Mistake

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Ship with city skyline and bridge

Featured articles

Self-Illuminated
Gilberto Perez: Godard’s Method

The Precautionary Principle
David Runciman: Taking a Chance on War

Don’t teach me
Gillian Darley: Ernö Goldfinger

Short Cuts
Sara Roy on the silencing of US academics

In Lille
Peter Campbell on Rubens