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John Sturrock

John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.

From the London Review dated 21 July 2005

The London Bombs

“It might have been better if George Bush hadn’t been hovering behind Blair’s right shoulder. The sight of the two of them together did a lot to clear the mind of thoughts of the Olympics or even the G8 meeting itself as the motive behind the London bombs, which certainly weren’t let off to show solidarity with the African poor. Far and away the most rational motive was the one that in the immediate aftermath seemed barely able to speak its name: Iraq.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Jeremy Harding and John Sturrock (2004)  Buy this book
  • In Search of Lost Time: Vol. IV: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, edited by Christopher Prendergast, translated by John Sturrock (2003)
  • The Word from Paris: Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers (1999)
  • The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing (1996)
  • The Language of Autobiography: Studies in the First Person Singular (1993)
  • Structuralism (1986)
  • Paper Tigers: Ideal Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges (1977)

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