Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski is writing a book about animals. Apology for the Woman Writing came out in paperback earlier this year.

In the LRB Archive:

• Diary: Rape-Rape · 5 November 2009

• Short Cuts: Periods · 22 October 2009

• Rumour Is Utterly Unfounded: Family Newspapers · 8 October 2009

  • Family Newspapers?: Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-78 by Adrian Bingham

• All Eat All: The Cannibal in Me · 6 August 2009

  • An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu, translated by Alistair Ian Blyth

• Queening It: Nina Simone · 25 June 2009

  • Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert

• Back to School: Bullet-Points for Teachers · 30 April 2009

• Short Cuts: Gail and Jade and Me · 12 March 2009

• Help-Self: Alastair Campbell’s Dodgy Novel · 6 November 2008

  • All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell

• The Khugistic Sandal: Jews & Shoes · 9 October 2008

  • Jews and Shoes edited by Edna Nahshon

• Diary: trying to stay awake · 31 July 2008

• Diary: On Not Liking South Africa · 3 July 2008

• Extreme Understanding: Irmgard Keun · 10 April 2008

  • Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun, translated by Michael Hofmann

• Not a Pretty Sight: Who Are You Calling Ugly? · 24 January 2008

  • On Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco

• Don’t Die: among the Handbags · 1 November 2007

  • Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Lustre by Dana Thomas

• Short Cuts: Internet Misfit · 18 October 2007

• Not Enjoying Herself: Princess Margaret · 16 August 2007

  • Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled by Tim Heald

• Tunnel Vision: Princess Diana · 2 August 2007

  • The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
  • Diana by Sarah Bradford

• Seriously Uncool: Susan Sontag · 22 March 2007

  • At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag, edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump, preface by David Rieff
  • A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005 by Annie Leibovitz

• Jowls are available: ‘Second Life’ · 8 February 2007

• Diary: The Friendly Spider Programme · 30 November 2006

• Excessive Bitters: the blind man who went around the world · 7 September 2006

  • An Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveller by Jason Roberts

• Heaps upon Heaps: the myth of Samson · 20 July 2006

  • Lion’s Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman

• Be mean and nasty: Shirley Porter’s Story · 25 May 2006

  • Nothing like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken

• The Housekeeper of a World-Shattering Theory: Mrs Freud · 23 March 2006

  • Martha Freud: A Biography by Katja Behling, translated by R.D.V. Glasgow

• Had we lived …: The Afterlife of Captain Scott · 9 February 2006

  • Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy in the Extreme South by David Crane

• Diary: The Je Ne Sais Quoi · 15 December 2005

• Giving Hysteria a Bad Name: At home with the Mellys · 17 November 2005

  • Take a Girl like Me: Life with George by Diana Melly
  • Slowing Down by George Melly

• I blame Foucault: Bush’s women · 22 September 2005

  • Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species by Laura Flanders

• My word, Miss Perkins: In the Typing Pool · 4 August 2005

  • Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture edited by Leah Price and Pamela Thurschwell

• Mirror Images: Piers Morgan · 31 March 2005

  • The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan

• Who wears hats now?: ‘Lost Worlds’ · 3 March 2005

  • Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost and Where Did It Go? by Michael Bywater

• XXX: Doing what we’re told · 18 November 2004

  • The Man who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram by Thomas Blass

• Darling, are you mad?: Ghost-writing for Naim Attallah · 4 November 2004

  • Ghosting by Jennie Erdal

• Diary: in New Zealand · 5 August 2004

• Think of Mrs Darling: Erving Goffman · 4 March 2004

  • Goffman's Legacy edited by Javier Treviño

• Cuddlesome: Germaine Greer · 8 January 2004

  • The Boy by Germaine Greer

• It’s so beautiful: V is for Vagina · 20 November 2003

  • The Story of V: Opening Pandora’s Box by Catherine Blackledge

• It wasn’t him, it was her: Nietzsche’s Bad Sister · 25 September 2003

  • Nietzsche’s Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche by Carol Diethe

• Flowery, rustic, tippy, smokey: a cup of tea · 19 June 2003

  • Green Gold: The Empire of Tea by Alan Macfarlane and Iris Macfarlane

• Tremble for Tomorrow: In the Vilna Ghetto · 22 May 2003

  • The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 1939-44 by Herman Kruk, edited by Benjamin Harshav, translated by Barbara Harshav

• Mad Monk: not going to the movies · 6 February 2003

  • The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
  • Nobody’s Perfect: Writings from the ‘New Yorker’ by Anthony Lane
  • Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film by Peter Wollen

• Diary: dragged to the shoe shop · 14 November 2002

• Hang on to the doily: Catherine M. · 25 July 2002

  • The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet, translated by Adriana Hunter

• Damp-Lipped Hilary: Larkin’s juvenilia · 23 May 2002

  • Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fictions by Philip Larkin, edited by James Booth

• Don’t think about it: The Trouble with Sonia Orwell · 25 April 2002

  • The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling

• Entitlement on Caroline Blackwood · 18 October 2001

  • Dangerous Muse: A Life of Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger

• Oh, Andrea Dworkin: Misogyny: The Male Malady by David Gilmore · 6 September 2001

  • Misogyny: The Male Malady by David Gilmore

• My Little Lollipop on Christine Keeler · 22 March 2001

  • The Truth at Last: My Story by Christine Keeler and Douglas Thompson

• Einstein at the Bus-Stop on physics · 8 February 2001

• Stinking Rich on Richard Branson · 16 November 2000

  • Branson by Tom Bower

• Thank you, Disney: The Town that Disney Built · 24 August 2000

  • The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town by Andrew Ross
  • Celebration, USA: Living in Disney’s Brave New Town by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins

• A Long Forgotten War writes about Promise of a Dream: A Memoir of the 1960s by Sheila Rowbotham · 6 July 2000

  • Promise of a Dream: A Memoir of the 1960s by Sheila Rowbotham

• At Free Love Corner · 30 March 2000

  • Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers by Frances Wilson

• Diary on hairdressing · 2 March 2000

• I thought I saw Dante in Gonzagagasse on W.G. Sebald · 3 February 2000

  • Vertigo by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

• A Human Being on Karl Marx · 25 November 1999

  • Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
  • Adventures in Marxism by Marshall Berman

• Feel the burn on pain · 30 September 1999

  • Pain: The Science of Suffering by Patrick Wall

• Perfectly Human on Lillie Langtry and Mrs Vladimir Nabokov · 1 July 1999

  • Lillie Langtry: Manners, Masks and Morals by Laura Beatty
  • Véra (Mrs Vladimir Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage by Stacy Schiff

• A keen horseman with a new pair of green suede chaps is guaranteed to ride into the sunset on A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook · 4 March 1999

  • A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook

• A life, surely?: To Portobello on Angel Dust · 18 February 1999

  • The Ossie Clark Diaries edited by Henrietta Rous

• The Will of the Fathers on Abraham · 10 December 1998

  • Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of the Biblical Myth by Carol Delaney

• Diary at Fifty · 15 October 1998

• Did Jesus walk on water because he couldn’t swim?: Jewish Seafarers · 20 August 1998

  • The Children of Noah: Jewish Seafaring in Ancient Times by Raphael Patai

• Diary looks up new words · 1 January 1998

• New Faces on the Block · 27 November 1997

  • Venus Envy by Elizabeth Haiken
  • The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty From Ancient Egypt by Dorothea Arnold

• Mrs Straus’s Devotion · 5 June 1997

  • Last Dinner on the ‘Titanic’: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner by Rick Archbold and Dana McCauley
  • The ‘Titanic’ Complex by John Wilson Foster
  • Down with the Old Canoe by Steven Biel

• Get it out of your system · 8 May 1997

  • The Anatomy of Disgust by William Ian Miller

• The Girl in the Attic · 6 March 1997

  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, edited by Otto Frank and Mirjam Pressler, translated by Susan Massotty

• A Feeling for Ice · 2 January 1997

• Life, Death and the Whole Damn Thing · 17 October 1996

  • An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
  • The Island of the Colour-Blind by Oliver Sacks

• Cool It · 18 July 1996

  • I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford

• Sweetie Pies · 23 May 1996

  • Below the Parapet: The Biography of Denis Thatcher by Carol Thatcher

• Having Half the Fun · 9 May 1996

  • An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Welcome to My Country: A Therapist’s Memoir of Medness by Lauren Slater

• Diary · 22 February 1996

• Made for TV · 14 December 1995

  • Fight & Kick & Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter by W. Stephen Gilbert
  • Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen by John Cook

• Diary · 19 October 1995

• Whatever happened to Ed Victor? · 6 July 1995

  • Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, The Screw Ups … The Sixties by Richard Neville

• Oh, the Burden, the Anxiety, the Sacrifices · 20 April 1995

  • Anaïs Nin by Deirdre Bair
  • Conversations with Anaïs Nin edited by Wendy Dubow

• Diary · 23 February 1995

• Bob and Betty · 26 January 1995

  • A Mind of My Own: My Life with Robert Maxwell by Elizabeth Maxwell

• Porter for Leader · 8 December 1994

  • London: A Social History by Roy Porter
  • A City Full of People: Men and Women of London, 1650-1750 by Peter Earle

• You could scream · 20 October 1994

  • Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey
  • Greta & Cecil by Diana Souhami

• Rhythm Method · 22 September 1994

  • R.D. Laing: A Biography by Adrian Laing

• Homage to Barbara Cartland · 18 August 1994

• Diary · 23 June 1994

• Stinker · 28 April 1994

  • Roald Dahl: A Biography by Jeremy Treglown

• He could afford it · 7 April 1994

  • Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham

• It’s Mummie · 16 December 1993

  • The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford, introduced by A.N. Wilson

• The Synaptic Years · 24 June 1993

  • And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison
  • Eating Children by Jill Tweedie

• Palm Island Diary · 22 April 1993

• On the Existence of Mount Rushmore and Other Improbabilities · 25 March 1993

• Good Housekeeping · 11 February 1993

  • The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters

• Don’t · 5 November 1992

  • Sex by Madonna
  • Sex and Sensibility by Julie Burchill
  • Too hot to handle by Fiona Pitt-Kethley

• Perfect Light · 9 July 1992

  • Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton
  • Shared Lives by Lyndall Gordon
  • Antonia White: Diaries 1958-1979 edited by Susan Chitty

• Diary · 28 May 1992

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