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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 4 · 19 February 1998
Christopher Hitchens on Donkey Business in the White House
- Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
- ‘One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-64 by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
- The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh
- Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson , Bobby Kennedy and the Feud that Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol
- The Year the Dream Died by Jules Witcover
- Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot by Jerry Zeifman
- The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow
- Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection edited by David Barrett
- Taking Charge: The Johnson Whitehouse Tapes 1963-64 edited by Michael Beschloss
- Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes edited by Stanley Kutler
- The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Jupiters, 1957-63
Ian Sansom on Ted Hughes
- Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Leonard Pepper, William Flesch, Jian L. Xiao, Jan Bondeson, James Wood, Gabriel Egan, Michael Prior, David Craig, Dipak Nandy, Richard Poole, Nicolas Walter
John Bayley: Papa Joyce
- John Stanislaus Joyce: The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce’s Father by John Wyse Jackson and Peter Costello
John Sutherland: Mama Trollope
- Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman by Pamela Neville-Sington
Karl Maier: Feeding off Famine
- Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa by Alex de Waal
- The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity by Michael Maren
Paul Foot
- Gordon Brown: The Biography by Paul Routledge
Ian Aitken
- The End of Parliamentary Socialism by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys
Joseph Frank
- The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin by Caryl Emerson
Zoë Heller: Girl Talk
- Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman
- Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
- Does My Bum Look Big in This? by Arabella Weir
Anna Swan
- Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton by Julie Kavanagh
Nicholas Jose
- Race Matters: Indigenous Australians and ‘Our’ Society edited by Gillian Cowlishaw and Barry Morris
- Aboriginal Sovereignty: Reflections on Race, State and Nation by Henry Reynolds
Adewale Maja-Pearce: A Night in the Slammer
Contributors
Ian Aitken is a former political editor of, and now a columnist for, the Guardian.
John Bayley was Warton Professor of English at Oxford from 1974 to 1992.
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.
Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Stanford. The fifth and final volume of his Life of Dostoevsky was published in 2002.
Zoë Heller’s novel, Everything You Know, came out in 1999.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
Nicholas Jose lives in Sydney. His novels include The Rose Crossing and The Custodians.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Karl Maier is the author of Angola: Promises and Lies and Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa.
Adewale Maja-Pearce is the author of In My Father’s Country and How Many Miles to Babylon? He lives in Lagos.
Tim Parks teaches literary translation at IULM University in Milan and is the author of Translating Style, an analysis of Italian translations of British Modernists. A collection of essays, The Fighter, is published this month.
Don Paterson’s Orpheus, a version of Rilke’s Die Sonette an Orpheus, will be published later this year. His previous collections include Landing Light, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Eyes and God’s Gift to Women.
Ian Sansom’s novel, The Delegates’ Choice, the third in ‘The Mobile Library’ series, is out from Harper Perennial.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Anna Swan is on the staff of the LRB.
