Gabriele Annan

Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.

In the LRB Archive:

• No Stick nor Trace: Bosnian fall-out · 3 March 2005

  • The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living by Courtney Angela Brkic
  • This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace by Swanee Hunt
  • Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia by Lynne Jones

• Throat-Rattling on Antal Szerb · 5 June 2003

  • Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb, translated by Len Rix

• Conversions on Ivan Klíma · 13 December 2001

  • No Saints or Angels by Ivan Klíma, translated by Gerald Turner

• Two Mishas and Two Sergeys: Andrey Kurkov · 7 June 2001

  • Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, translated by George Bird

• Some Kind of Remedy on Jhumpa Lahirir · 20 July 2000

  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Watching the Colour Drain from the Butcher Boy’s Face · 18 May 2000

  • Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, translated by Carol Brown Janeway

• Blair-Speak: Gish Jen’s Jokes · 6 January 2000

  • Who's Irish by Gish Jen

• Forbidden to Grow up on Ahdaf Soueif · 15 July 1999

  • The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

• Sugar-Sticky on Anita Desai · 27 May 1999

  • Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai

• Waldorf’s Birthday Present: The Lovely Langhornes · 7 January 1999

  • The Langhorne Sisters by James Fox

• Not Sex, but Sexy on Alma Mahler-Werfel · 10 December 1998

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel: The Diaries 1898-1902 translated by Antony Beaumont

• Lyris, Clovis, Nat and Candy on Shena Mackay · 16 July 1998

  • The Artist's Widow by Sheila Mackay

• Thoughts about Hanna · 30 October 1997

  • The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Carol Brown Janeway

• Rainy Days · 18 September 1997

  • The File on H by Ismail Kadare, translated by David Bellos

• Heritage · 6 March 1997

  • The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stan ford White Family by Suzannah Lessard

• Only the Drop · 17 October 1996

  • Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge

• Shut your eyes as tight as you can · 21 March 1996

  • A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile by Agate Nesaule

• Glee · 7 September 1995

  • 1920 Diary by Isaac Babel, edited by Carol Avins, translated by H.T. Willetts
  • Collected Stories by Isaac Babel, translated by David McDuff

• Lots to Digest · 3 August 1995

  • Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra

• Count Waller’s Story · 24 November 1994

  • Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz by Irene Dische

• Royal Anxiety · 9 June 1994

  • The Queen by Kenneth Harris
  • Divine Right: The Inglorious Survival of British Royalty by Richard Tomlinson

• Outfits to die for · 10 February 1994

  • A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-60 by Jeanine Basinger

• Redheads · 25 March 1993

  • Alias Olympia: A Woman’s Search for Manet’s Notorious Model and Her Own Desire by Eunice Lipton

• Self-Hatred · 5 November 1992

  • Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated by Michael Hofmann

• Good Form · 25 June 1992

  • From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in 19th-Century Dance by Elizabeth Aldrich

• Alma’s Alter · 11 June 1992

  • Oscar Kokoschka: Letters translated by Mary Whittall

• Too vulgar · 13 February 1992

  • The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Zita of Austria-Hungary by Gordon Brook-Shepherd

• Not nobody · 24 October 1991

  • Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia by Marion Countess Dönhoff

• Bullies · 7 February 1991

  • Reminiscences and Reflections by Golo Mann, translated by Krishna Winston

• Every Curve of Flesh · 10 January 1991

  • Diary of an Erotic Life by Frank Wedekind

• Lament for the members of a class of masters · 6 December 1990

  • The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by H.F. Broch de Rothermann

• Futility · 27 September 1990

  • Garbo: Her Story by Antoni Gronowicz

• Mad John · 28 June 1990

  • McEnroe: Taming the talent by Richard Evans

• It · 24 May 1990

  • A Young Girl’s Diary edited by Daniel Gunn and Patrick Guyomard

• The Trouble with Trott · 22 February 1990

  • A Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz by Giles MacDonogh

• Seriously ugly · 11 January 1990

  • Weep no more by Barbara Skelton

• Eirene Botting, Ena Twigge, Benedicta de Bezer, Susan Chitty, Lyndall Hopkinson · 27 October 1988

  • Nothing to Forgive: A Daughter’s Life of Antonia White by Lyndall Hopkinson

• The Bart · 10 December 1987

  • Broken Blood: The Rise and Fall of the Tennant Family by Simon Blow

• Stuffing · 3 September 1987

  • The Neo-Pagans: Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle by Paul Delany

• Diary · 3 April 1986

• A Resonance for William Styron · 7 November 1985

  • Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steven Aronson

• Getting on · 20 December 1984

  • The Ledge between the Streams by Ved Mehta

• Demi-Paradises · 7 June 1984

  • Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild edited by Joan Littlewood
  • I meant to marry him: A Personal Memoir by Jean MacGibbon

• Ivy’s Feelings · 1 March 1984

  • The Exile: A Life of Ivy Litvinov by John Carswell

• Mrs Meneghini · 17 February 1983

  • My Wife Maria Callas by Giovanni Battista Meneghini, translated by Henry Wisneski

• Uncle Zindel · 2 September 1982

  • The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

• God’s Little Sister · 1 July 1982

  • Early Memoirs by Bronislava Nijinska, translated by Irina Nijinska and Jean Rawlinson

• Tolstoy’s Daughter · 1 April 1982

  • Out of the Past by Alexandra Tolstoy

• Bad Feeling · 5 November 1981

  • Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy by Anne Edwards

• Jewishness · 7 May 1981

  • When memory comes by Saul Friedländer, translated by Helen Lane

• Maria’s Mystery · 6 November 1980

  • Maria: Beyond the Callas Legend by Arianna Stassinopoulos

• Father’ Things · 7 August 1980

  • The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father by Geoffrey Wolff

• A Hindu Marriage · 19 June 1980

  • Mamaji by Ved Mehta

• Sheep into Goats · 24 January 1980

  • The British Aristocracy by Mark Bence-Jones and Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
  • The Astors by Virginia Cowles
  • Barclay Fox’s Journal edited by R.L. Brett

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