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Contents

Vol. 20 No. 10   ·   21 May 1998

Of the Mule Breed

David Bromwich on Robert Southey

  • Robert Southey: A Life by Mark Storey

Mr Shepperd to you

R.W. Johnson on Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 by Ross McKibbin

Superhuman

Rebecca Mead on Wasted: A Memoir of anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher

  • Wasted: A Memoir of anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher

Letters

Neil Forster, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Zich, Andrew Gow, Richard Davies, Henrik Rosenmeier, Andrew Rawlinson, Keith Flett

Ashis Nandy

  • Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny by Stanley Wolpert

Amit Chaudhuri

  • Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra

Andrew Saint

  • Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers

Simon Schaffer

  • The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773 by Robert Schofield

Catherine Wilson

  • The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation by Clara Pinto-Correia

Terence Hawkes

  • The Fury of Men’s Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal by Bruce Thomas Boehrer

Anna Vaux

  • Bad Mothers: The Politics of Blame in 20th-Century America edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky
  • Madonna and Child: Towards a New Politics of Motherhood by Melissa Benn

Justine Jordan

John Redmond

P.N. Furbank

  • Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric by Mark Amory

Stephen Smith

Andy Beckett

  • Guide by Dennis Cooper

Contributors

Featured articles

Of the Mule Breed
David Bromwich on Robert Southey

Mr Shepperd to you
R.W. Johnson on Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 by Ross McKibbin

Superhuman
Rebecca Mead on Wasted: A Memoir of anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher