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Contents
Vol. 26 No. 13 · 8 July 2004
James Meek: The Day My Pants Froze
- The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia out in the Cold by Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy
Andy Beckett, Kenneth Choy, A.J. Caston, Campbell Lennie, Yitzhak Laor, Rick Livingston, Ruth Franklin, Ian Carter, Graham Hall
Tariq Ali enjoys the BJP defeat
- Nehru: A Political Life by Judith Brown
- Nehru by Benjamin Zachariah
John Gittings: ‘One China, Many Paths’
- One China, Many Paths edited by Wang Chaohua
Anna Xiao Dong Sun: Is there more to Ma Jian than politics?
- The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew
Peter Campbell on gardens
Jacqueline Rose on Freud and Zionism
Ross McKibbin: Where are the Backbenchers?
R.W. Johnson reclaims Eleanor Rathbone
Andrew O’Hagan on myths of Marilyn
Paul Laity on ‘Lord Haw-Haw’
- Germany Calling: A Personal Biography of William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ by Mary Kenny
- Lord Haw-Haw: The English Voice of Nazi Germany by Peter Martland
Liz Jobey on Bill Brandt
- Bill Brandt: A Life by Paul Delany
- Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective Victoria & Albert Museum
Hugh Pennington: The Great MMR Disaster
Rebecca Solnit: Hell in LA
- Dante's Inferno by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders
Ian Sansom: I was a teenage evangelist
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s new book, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, will be published by Simon and Schuster in September.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
John Gittings first visited China during the Cultural Revolution and was the Guardian China specialist from 1983 to 2003. He is now a research associate at the Centre of Chinese Studies at SOAS.
Liz Jobey is the author of A Photographic History of the 20th Century.
R.W. Johnson is an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His new book, South Africa’s Brave New World, will be published by Penguin in the spring.
Paul Laity edited the Left Book Club Anthology. Formerly an editor at the London Review, he now works at the Guardian.
Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize.
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.
Hugh Pennington is chair of the public inquiry into the 2005 South Wales E.coli outbreak. He lives in Aberdeen.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Jacqueline Rose teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity, edited with Anne Karpf, Brian Klug and Barbara Rosenbaum, will be published by Verso.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
Rebecca Solnit lives in San Francisco. Her books include Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power and A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
John Hartley Williams’s most recent collection is The Ship. A new volume of poems will appear in the spring.
Anna Xiao Dong Sun is a Mellon Dissertation Fellow at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London. Her short story collection, The Blue Notebook, was published in China in 2002.
