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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 1 · 1 January 1998
Paul Foot on the fall of Jonathan Aitken
- The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken by Luke Harding and David Leigh
Jeremy Harding seeks travel guidance
- Kenya by Hugh Finlay and Geoff Crowther
- Borneo by Robert Pelton Young
- Asia's Top Dive Sites edited by Fiona Nichols and Michael Stachels
- South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland by Jon Murray et al
- Southern Africa by Richard Cox
- The World's Most Dangerous Places by Robert Pelton Young
- South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland by Barbara McCrea et al
- The Good Honeymoon Guide by Lucy Horne
- Amnesty International Report 1997
- Morocco by Barnaby Rogerson
Alan Bennett: Me Looking like a Flustered Turkey
John Sutherland, Fintan O’Toole, Sue Rickard, Harry Gilonis, Stephen Lane, Mick Hume, Ben Riley, Philip Rush, Kenyon Alexander, Fred Sedgwick
Marina Warner writes about women who kill children
Nicholas Penny
- Victorian Fairy Painting edited by Jane Martineau
James Wood
- Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch
Lorna Sage
- The Key of the Tower by Gilbert Adair
Lawrence Rainey
- Otto Milioni di Cartoline per il Duce by Enrico Sturani
Alexander Stille
- Modern Italy: A Political History by Denis Mack Smith
John Leslie
- Before the Beginning by Martin Rees
- The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin
Justine Burley
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
- Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson
Contributors
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Justine Burley is a lecturer in politics at Exeter College, Oxford and a research fellow at the Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics. She is a rock and Alpine climber and hiked in the Himalayas in 1995.
Allen Curnow, a poet often published and much admired by the LRB, died in September 2001. Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems, 1941-97 is available from Carcanet. The Bells of Saint Babel’s has just been published in paperback.
Jenny Diski’s new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published in November. She is currently bobbing about on the South Atlantic.
Paul Foot died in July 2004. He wrote 60 pieces for the LRB – on subjects including Leon Britain, the Birmingham Six, MI5, Tiny Rowland, Neil Hamilton, Gordon Brown and (often) Shelley.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Kathleen Jamie’s latest book of poems is The Tree House. Findings, a book of essays, was published in 2005. She lectures on creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
John Leslie is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Guelph, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction is published by Routledge.
Nicholas Penny is the director of the National Gallery.
Lawrence Rainey is the author of Institutions of Modernism. He holds the chair in Modernist Literature at the University of York.
Lorna Sage died in January 2001. Part of her autobiography, Bad Blood, for which she won the Whitbread Biography Prize, was first published in the LRB in 1993.
Alexander Stille’s Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism and Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic are both published by Vintage.
Marina Warner’s books include From the Beast to the Blonde, Indigo and most recently, Phantasmagoria. She teaches at the University of Essex.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
