Vol. 23 No. 3 · 8 February 2001

Browse other issues from this year

Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Browse other issues from this year

Vol. 23 No. 3 · 8 February 2001

Bruce Ackerman

Anatomy of a Constitutional Coup

Letters

David Guedes, David Walker, R.W. Johnson, Liz Moloney, Colleen Franklin, J. D., I.D. Mangoletsis, Simon Barley, John Cunliffe

Michael Byers

Ready for a Rematch

Neil Rollinson

Poem: ‘The Mile High Club’

Anne Barton

Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour. Murray, 665 pp., £25, October 2000, 0 7195 5711 9
Mary Shelley in Her Times edited by Betty Bennett and Stuart Curran. Johns Hopkins, 311 pp., £33, September 2000, 0 8018 6334 1
Mary Shelley's Fictions edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra. Palgrave, 250 pp., £40, August 2000, 0 333 77106 0

Ross McKibbin

John Maynard Keynes: Vol. III: Fighting for Britain 1937-46 by Robert Skidelsky. Macmillan, 580 pp., £25, November 2000, 0 333 60456 3

Michael Wood

A Writer's Notebook by Anthony Powell. Heinemann, 169 pp., £14.99, February 2001, 0 434 00915 6

Ian Hamilton

Keith Douglas: The Letters edited by Desmond Graham. Carcanet, 369 pp., £14.95, September 2000, 1 85754 477 3

Mark Mazower

The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-16: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Falloden by Viscount Bryce Uncensored Edition by James Bryce and Arnold Toynbee, edited by Ara Sarafian. Gomidas Institute, 677 pp., £32, December 2000, 0 9535191 5 5

John Sturrock

Short Cuts: books and balls

Dinah Birch

East Lynne by Ellen Wood, edited by Andrew Maunder. Broadview, 779 pp., £7.95, October 2000, 1 55111 234 5

Thomas Jones

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey. Faber, 352 pp., £16.99, January 2001, 0 571 20987 4

Matthew Sweeney

Two Poems

Edward Luttwak

Sane Cows, or BSE isn’t the worst of it

Andrew Berry

A Monk and Two Peas: The Story of Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of Genetics by Robin Marantz Henig. Weidenfeld, 288 pp., £14.99, June 2001, 0 297 64365 7

Peter Campbell

At the Royal Academy: Caravaggio

John Redmond

Selected Poems by Derek Mahon. Penguin, 213 pp., £9.99, November 2000, 0 14 118233 4

Jeremy Noel-Tod

Collected Poems by R.F. Langley. Carcanet, 72 pp., £6.95, January 2001, 9781857544480

James Fletcher

Haydn Studies edited by Dean Sutcliffe. Cambridge, 343 pp., £47.50, October 1998, 0 521 58052 8

Jenny Diski

Diary: Einstein at the Bus-Stop

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.

Sign up to our newsletter

For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.

Newsletter Preferences