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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 9 · 7 May 1998
John Bayley, Charles Mayo, Ian Carter, Annalena McAfee, Dejan Djokic, Peter Neubauer, Brian Middleton
Murray Sayle: Everest and Empire
- Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond by Peter Steele
Jean McNicol
- Jennie Lee: A Life by Patricia Hollis
Colin Kidd
- Who’s Afraid of Freemasons? The Phenomenon of Freemasonry by Alexander Piatigorsky
Paul Smith
- Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919 edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert
Anne Hollander
- Tête à Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson edited by E.H. Gombrich
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: Europeans edited by Jean Clair
Kenneth Silverman
- Alfred Kinsey: A Public/Private Life by James Jones
John Harvey
- The Man of Fashion: Male Peacocks and Perfect Gentlemen by Colin McDowell
Joanna Kavenna
- The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
Zoë Heller
- Paradise by Toni Morrison
Jeremy Harding revisits Martha Gellhorn
Contributors
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.
John Harvey is a fellow in English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The paperback of his book, Men in Black, is published by Reaktion.
Zoë Heller’s novel, Everything You Know, came out in 1999.
Anne Hollander wrote the text for Woman in the Mirror, Richard Avedon’s last collection of photographs. She is now at work on a study of literary clothing.
Tobias Jones, a former editorial assistant at the LRB, is the author of the bestselling Dark Heart of Italy.
Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule is published by Viking. She currently holds a writing fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge.
Colin Kidd is the author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. He teaches history at Glasgow University.
Jean McNicol is on the staff of the London Review of Books
Douglas Oliver taught at the British Institute in Paris. He died in April 2000.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Murray Sayle is a veteran foreign correspondent who has been living in Japan.
Kenneth Silverman, who directs the literary biography programme at New York University, is writing a life of Samuel Morse.
Paul Smith’s edition of Bagehot’s English Constitution came out this year.