LRB | Vol. 22 No. 18 dated 21 September 2000

Contents

Articles online from Vol. 22 No. 18
Cover date: 21 September 2000

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A Thousand Mosquito Bites
Thomas Powers: Jews in Wartime Dresden

I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1933-41 by Victor Klemperer ed. Martin Chalmers

To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer ed. Martin Chalmers

Two Poems
Mark Doty

The Inevitable Pit
Stephen Greenblatt: Isn't that a Jewish name?

Daisy packs her bags
Zachary Leader: The Road to West Egg

Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald ed. James L.W. West III

Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy
Hal Foster writes about Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Cultre by John Seabrook

Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture by John Seabrook

Too Young
James Davidson

Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones

Teeth of Mouldy Blue
Laura Quinney

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol I by Percy Bysshe Shelley ed. Donald Reiman and Neil Fraisat

The Wives of Herr Bear
Julia Briggs

The Invention of Jane Harrison by Mary Beard

The Inner Lives of Quiet Women
Joanna Kavenna

May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian by Suzanne Raitt

Bandini to Hackmuth
Christopher Tayler

Ask the Dust by John Fante

Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante by Stephen Cooper

Willesden Fast-Forward
Daniel Soar

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Dipper
Jason Harding

George Moore, 1852-1933 by Adrian Frazier

Crimewatch UK
John Upton: The Tabloids, the Judges and the Mob

The Marked Man
Audrey Gillan: Portrait of a Paedophile

Diary
Cynthia Lawford

Letters from Norman Stone, Brian Harrison, Richard Davenport-Hines, Roger Simon, Lewis Nkosi, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Paul Pfalzner, Colin Matthews, Fred Kerner, David Sweden, Marcus Short

Contributors

Julia Briggs is the author of This Stage-Play World, about the Elizabethan theatre, and the editor of the Penguin Three Guineas and A Room of One's Own. She is a professor of English at De Montfort University in Leicester.

James Davidson is a reader at the University of Warwick. Courtesans and Fishcakes was about consumer passions in ancient Greece; his new book will be about Greek love.

Mark Doty is the author of Firebird, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Source.

Hal Foster's books include The Anti-Aesthetic and Design and Crime. He is Townsend Martin Professor of Art at Princeton.

Audrey Gillan is a reporter on the Guardian.

Stephen Greenblatt's most recent book is Hamlet in Purgatory. He is working on a biographical study of Shakespeare.

Jason Harding is the author of The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain.

Thomas Jones is an editor at the London Review of Books.

Joanna Kavenna is a fellow at the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford. Her book about Ultima Thule and the idea of the Pure North is due next year.

Cynthia Lawford, a graduate student at the City University of New York, lives in Harpenden, Herts.

Zachary Leader has edited The Letters of Kingsley Amis, and plays tennis with Martin.

Thomas Powers is the author of Heisenberg's War and The Man Who Kept the Secrets. His first novel, The Confirmation, is published in the US by Knopf.

Laura Quinney is the author of Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth and The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. She teaches at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Daniel Soar is an assistant editor at the LRB.

Christopher Tayler lives in London.

John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.