Browse other issues from this year
Vol. 23 No. 20 · 18 October 2001
Steven Shapin
Science, Money and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion by Daniel Greenberg. Chicago, 530 pp., £22.50, October 2001, 0 226 30634 8
Letters
Marjorie Perloff, Anne Willie, Todd Ojala, Robert Livingston, Robert Wilson, Greville Healey, Sheila Wright, Scott Herrick, Jim Valentine, David Hamilton
Allen Curnow
Poem: ‘Investigations at the Public Baths’
Bernard Porter
Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 by Stella Rimington. Hutchinson, 296 pp., £18.99, September 2001, 0 09 179360 2
Stephen Kotkin
A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya, translated by John Crowfoot. Harvill, 336 pp., £12, June 2001, 1 86046 897 7 Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus by Svante Cornell. Curzon, 480 pp., £57.88, January 2001, 0 7007 1162 7
Amit Chaudhuri
Story: ‘The Old Masters’
Megan Vaughan
Frantz Fanon: A Life by David Macey. Granta, 640 pp., £12.99, September 2001, 1 86207 458 5
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Scrabble
Terry Eagleton
Gallows Speeches from 18th-Century Ireland by James Kelly. Four Courts, 288 pp., £19.65, August 2001, 1 85182 611 4
Jenny Diski
Dangerous Muse: A Life of Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger. Weidenfeld, 336 pp., £20, June 2001, 0 297 84101 7
Benjamin Markovits
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell. Hamish Hamilton, 415 pp., £16.99, October 2001, 0 241 14125 7
Theo Tait
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel. Harvill, 229 pp., £12, May 2001, 9781860468254
Peter Campbell
On the Streets
Alex Clark
Oxygen by Andrew Miller. Sceptre, 323 pp., £14.99, September 2001, 0 340 72825 6
Christopher Reid
Poem: ‘Bollockshire’
James Buchan
Diary: My Hogs
Leah Price
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson. Yale, 324 pp., £19.95, April 2001, 0 300 08816 7
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.