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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 8 · 16 April 1998
Benedict Anderson writes about the Asian economic crisis (April 1998)
Frank Kermode on Marianne Moore
- The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore edited by Bonnie Costello and Celeste Goodridge et al
Joseph Nuttgens, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Martin Evans, K.W.C. Sinclair-Loutit, J. Elfenbein, W.W. Aylward, John Hannon, Haim Gaifman
Ross McKibbin: Gilmour’s Way
- Whatever Happened to the Tories: The Conservatives since 1945 by Ian Gilmour and Mark Garnett
James Wood: Thomas More’s Bad Character
- The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
Terry Eagleton: Death, Desire and so forth
Joyce Carol Oates on Grace Paley
- The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
William Fiennes
- Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell
Margaret Visser: Mega-Fish
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Stephen Mills
- Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda Lear
James Davidson
- Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenblum
Helen Cooper
- The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy by Odile Redon and Françoise Sabban, translated by Edward Schneider
Stephen Wall
- The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. IX: 1859-61 edited by Graham Storey
John Sutherland: Virgin Porn
- Sugar and Spice: A Black Lace Short Story Collection edited by Kerri Sharp
- Ménage by Emma Holly
Contributors
Benedict Anderson, the author of Imagined Communities and The Spectre of Comparisons, is a professor of government at Cornell University.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Helen Cooper is a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge and the author of The English Romance in Time.
James Davidson is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
William Fiennes’s The Snow Geese was published by Picador in 2002.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
Zachary Leader has edited The Letters of Kingsley Amis, and plays tennis with Martin.
Ross McKibbin, a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, is the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Stephen Mills made a film in Assam about the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros.
Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Margaret Visser is the author of The Rituals of Dinner among other books.
Stephen Wall is the editor, with Christopher Ricks, of Essays in Criticism.
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.
