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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 7 · 2 April 1998
Andrew O’Hagan: Truman Capote
- Truman Capote: In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton
Stephen Sedley: The Drafter’s Contract
- Statutory Interpretation: third edition by Francis Bennion
- Law and Interpretation edited by Andrei Marmor
- Equality before the Law: Deaf People’s Access to Justice by Mary Brennan and Richard Brown
Stewart Wallis, William Morrice, Brian Southam, Jenny Balfour-Paul, Masolino d’Amico, Val Lyubarsky, Giles Foden, Nicolas Walter, Mervyn Jones
Alan Bennett Studies the Form
Anthony Grafton
- Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in Italian Renaissance by Martin Kemp
Lorna Scott Fox
- The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson
Michael Wood
- Collected Poetry and Prose by Wallace Stevens, edited by Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson
Ian Hamilton: Rabbit and Zooey
- Toward the End of Time by John Updike Buy this book
- Gold Dreams by John Updike
Misha Glenny calls in the Serbian Army
Thomas de Waal
- Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk by Aleksandr Korzhakov
- Romance with the President by Vyacheslav Kostikov
John Henderson
- Dissidence and Literature under Nero: The Price of Rhetoricisation by Vasily Rudich
T.H. Barrett
- The Buddha of Brewer Street by Michael Dobbs
- The Book of Tibetan Elders: Life Stories and Wisdom from the Great Spiritual Masters of Tibet by Sandy Johnson
- The Art of Tibet by Robert Fisher
- Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations by Warren Smith Jr.
- The Way to Freedom by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
- Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
- Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama by Mary Craig
Owen Flanagan
- The Analects of Confucius translated by Simon Leys
- The Analects of Confucius translated by Chichung Huang
Contributors
T.H. Barrett teaches in the Department of the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is the author of Taoism under the T’ang.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, is the author of Self Expressions: Mind, Morals and the Meaning of Life.
Misha Glenny, a former BBC correspondent in Vienna, is the author of The Fall of Yugoslavia and The Rebirth of History.
Anthony Grafton’s many books include Joseph Scaliger and The Footnote. The latest is Leon Battista Alberti.
Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels - and on football - to the LRB. He died on 27 December 2001.
John Henderson is a fellow of King’s and a reader in Latin literature at Cambridge.
Stephen Knight is the author of two collections of poems, Flowering Limbs and Dream City Cinema, and of Mr Schnitzel, a novel.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
Lorna Scott Fox is an editor and translator who lives in London.
Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
Thomas de Waal has been covering the Caucasus and Chechnya since 1994, as Caucasus editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London. He is researching a book on the Black Sea.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.