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Search these pages, or search our bookstore Richmond Review Bookstore Enter email address and Subscribe for updates Browse our network book2book.co.uk kamera.co.uk Crime Time Spike Bookshop Videostore Copyright © 1995/2001 The Richmond Review Publisher: Steven Kelly London: Geoff Mulligan New York: Jason Starr Features: Liz Rowlinson Reviews: Sara Rance Travel: Helena Smith Poetry: Mike Bradshaw Philosophy: Polly Rance Snail Mail Restante: The Richmond Review @ High Stakes 21 Great Ormond Street London WC1N 3JB Email: editor@ richmondreview.co.uk Fax: +44 20 7919 6107 Who We Are Occasionally Asked Questions Legal Stuff	IN THE LIBRARY POETRY (Richmond Review) Three Poems by Paisley Rekdal According to The Village Voice, Paisley Rekdal's poetry is "simultaneously more sexual and more scientific than her searing meditations on race" - find out for yourself... [More] ESSAY (Richmond Review) The Revolution Ends at Dawn by Bruce Gatenby 'Human beings, it seems, have a natural disposition to belong to the herd. Christianity, Islam, Capitalism, Communism, Fascism, even Popular Culture would not exist otherwise. Neither would the contemporary curse of media-manipulated marketing and advertising...' [More] ESSAY (Richmond Review) Walking Meditation by Chris Arthur 'Keeping unthinkingly in step is surely at the root not just of modern Ulster's crisis but of that global indifference which allows so much to happen which should not...' [More] POETRY (Richmond Review) Five Poems by John Kinsella New poetry and the poet in conversation with Michael Bradshaw SHORT STORY (Richmond Review) Pursuit by Georgette Heyer A rare and uncollected short story by the incomparable Ms Heyer, courtesy of her estate ESSAY (Richmond Review) Eros by Tim Parks 'Eroticism has this in common with an addictive drug: that there is a coercive element to its pleasure with which part of us is in complicity, and part not...' [More] ESSAY (Richmond Review) Books, the Next Millennium by Tim Parks '...it seems only right that books should be pushed more and more into those moments of travel or difficult defecation that people still don't quite know what to do with...' SHORT STORY (Richmond Review) Bookcruncher by Tibor Fischer '...if he hadn't come up with the two book technique, simultaneously reading one book in his right hand and one book in his left, he wouldn't have got anywhere...' SHORT STORY (Richmond Review) The Cut Man by F.X. Toole '...the best boxing short fiction ever written. F.X. Toole is the brilliant love child of Sonny Liston and a rabid pit bull...' (James Ellroy) ESSAY (Richmond Review) Globalization and the Devil by John J. Reilly For a significant number of people, Fukuyama's millennium of internationalism, secularism and market economics is not just ill-advised but spiritually evil... POETRY (Richmond Review) Six Poems by Polly Clark New poetry and an interview by Michael Bradshaw SHORT STORY (Richmond Review) Joe Laughed by James Kelman ESSAY (Richmond Review) The Furies of Irish Fiction by Julia O'Faolain ESSAY (Richmond Review) Rancour by Tim Parks SHORT STORY (Richmond Review) Lo and Behold by Frederic Raphael SHORT STORY (Richmond Review) Loop by Keith Ridgway SHORT STORY (Richmond Review) Shutting Darkness Down by James Sallis	FEATURE ITEMS FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) A Quick Chat with Paisley Rekdal By David Remy Regular RR contributor talks racial identity, cultural assimilation, and artistic pain with this month's featured poet [More] FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) Further Hazards of the Writing Life by Bruce Gatenby 'my life is in the hands of what I call "the Malicious Gods": those trickster spirits who provide interesting experiences that lift you beyond your limited and circumscribed horizons - but exact a hefty personal cost in return for those experiences...' [More] FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) The Literary Web by Jason Gurley 'The Internet is becoming a massive publishing industry, one whose influence is booming and whose potential is barely scraped by the literary community and the public alike...' [More] PHOTOGRAPHY (Richmond Review) SUMO by Helmut Newton 'The only thing I care about is that they get my name right...' FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) Fouling the Nest by C. J. Schüler 'In Austria, any effort to promote an honest review of the country's wartime history still arouses violent resentment...' [More] INTERVIEW (Richmond Review) A Quick Chat with Vivien Kelly 'Vivien Kelly is quite unlike any other twenty-something novelist currently at work in the UK...' [More] FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) Introduction to lifehouse by Pete Townshend 'Someone who used to be a really big rock star' introduces his playscript lifehouse, recently performed on BBC radio after 28 years in the writing INTERVIEW (Richmond Review) A Quick Chat with Daniel Woodrell The author interviewed before he flew to London for the premiere of Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil - based on Woodrell's 1987 novel Woe to Live On FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) Aufstieg und Fall der Moderne C.J. Schüler visits Weimar where an exhibition charting the rise and fall of modernism and including rarely-seen Nazi-era paintings is stirring up controversy FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) The birth of the beatnik by James Campbell The Beats revisited in this brilliant new survey of a generation FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) Fifty years of Magnum by Russell Miller '...becoming a member of Magnum is tantamount, in the rigour of the initiation, to joining a religious order...' [More] INTERVIEW (Richmond Review) A Quick Chat with Pagan Kennedy '...Boston doesn't have much going for it but Chomsky's our boy...' [More] FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) Jonestown by Robert Templer 'Jones saw himself as so potent that he attributed defections from the group to his refusal to sleep with them...' [More] FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) Imagining Vietnam by Robert Templer '...'Nam' is a steamy condensation of life in the Saigon of the 1960s with sex, drugs and a rock and roll soundtrack. It is bound up with images of war, the smell of napalm in the morning and a chirruping hooker patois...' [More] FEATURE ITEM (Richmond Review) The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale 'It's a marvellous thing. If everybody had a Wadley there'd be less sadness in the world...' [More]	BOOK REVIEWS Straight From The Fridge Dad by Max Décharné '...exhaustive guide is perfect for the wannabe hipster and will slip neatly into the inside lining of any zoot suit...' - Chris Wiegand How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom '...the relationship of literary criticism to its object is one of perpetual failure to grasp the truth of its object...' - Brian Dillon A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers '...reads like it was written in response to a creative writing teacher's demand for less metafictional frippery...' - Brian Dillon Atomised by Michel Houellebecq '...the kind of novel that many of its liberal defenders will grit their teeth and declare "profoundly moral"...' - Brian Dillon Dreamland by Kevin Baker '...the actual embodiment of that reviewer's cliché, the tour de force...' - Amanda Jeremin Harris I'm a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock'n'Roll by Ruth Padel '...cut-price Calasso-isms and a shockingly banal retelling of the history of the music...' - Brian Dillon Equal Love by Peter Ho Davies - James Wood Ravelstein by Saul Bellow - Chris Wood The Big Blowdown by George P. Pelecanos - Jason Starr Bronson by Charles Bronson - Chris Wood The Auctioneer by Charles Fernyhough - James Wood Fork in the Road by Denis Hammill - Jennifer Merk The Book Of Revelation by Rupert Thompson - Amanda Jeremin Harris Mindgame by Yang-May Ooi - James Wood The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson - Chris Wood Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell - Chris Wood Tongue First by Emily Jenkins - Amanda Jeremin Harris Kant And The Platypus by Umberto Eco - Amanda Jeremin Harris Aquarius Descending by Martha C. Lawrence - Jason Starr Original Bliss by A L Kennedy - James Diedrick Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet by Jan Marsh - Vivien Allen Secrets Of The Flesh, A Life Of Colette by Judith Thurman - Amanda Jeremin Harris Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman - James Diedrick Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines - Jerry Bass Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco - Robert Whitehouse Undue Influence by Anita Brookner - Robert Whitehouse Ants on the Melon by Virginia Hamilton Adair - Jerry Bass Life Class by Jenny Newman - Helena Mary Smith Selected Writings by Richard Mabey - Graham Dickson The Spaces of Hope Ed. Peter Jay - Polly Clark Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S.Byatt - James Diedrick Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare - Robert Whitehouse The River Sound by W.S. Merwin - Jerry Bass One Finger Too Many by Alfred Brendel - Jerry Bass Several Deceptions by Jane Stevenson - Robert Whitehouse The Informer by Akimitsu Takagi - Jason Starr Yes We Have No by Nik Cohn - Robert Whitehouse Yes We Have No by Nik Cohn - Graham Dickson Waiting for the Ferry by Heather Buck - Michael Bradshaw Adultery & Other Diversions by Tim Parks - Graham Dickson The Silent Sentry by Chris Paling - Robert Whitehouse
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