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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 12 · 18 June 1998
David Bromwich on The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style by Tom Paulin
- The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style by Tom Paulin
Ian Hamilton: literary pay and literary prizes
- Guide to Literary Prizes, 1998 edited by Huw Molseed
- The Cost of Letters: A Survey of Literary Living Standards edited by Andrew Holgate and Honor Wilson-Fletcher
Alan Bennett, Marian Sugden, Peter Womack, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Robb, Jenny Hinton, Mervyn Williams, Martin Beagles, Susan Ryley Hoyle, Keith Flett
Lorna Sage
- The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Vols I edited by Margaret Scott
- The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Vols II edited by Margaret Scott
John Sturrock
- Lake by Jean Echenoz, translated by Guido Waldman
- Un An by Jean Echenoz
Mary Beard
- Hadrian: The Restless Emperor by Anthony Birley
Adam Phillips
- The Poems of A.E. Housman edited by Archie Burnett
- The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
Penelope Fitzgerald
- Father of the Bensons: The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbiship of Canterbury by Geoffrey Palmer and Noel Lloyd
Eqbal Ahmad
- The Terrorist Prince: Life and Death of Murtaza Bhutto by Raja Anwar, translated by Khalid Hasan
- Memoirs of a Bystander: A Life in Diplomacy by Iqbal Akhund
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Pakistan by Rafi Raza
Benedict Anderson attends the Water Festival in Laos
James Davidson
- Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece by Andrew Stewart
Marina Warner
- Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society by Jean-Claude Schmitt, translated by Theresa Lavender Fagan
A.L. Kennedy
- Cries Unheard by Gitta Sereny
John Mullan
- The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the 18th Century by John Brewer
Contributors
Eqbal Ahmad, a freelance writer, lives some of the time in Islamabad and some of the time in Massachusetts.
Benedict Anderson, the author of Imagined Communities and The Spectre of Comparisons, is a professor of government at Cornell University.
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
David Bromwich teaches English at Yale and is the editor of a selection of Burke’s writings, On Empire, Liberty and Reform.
James Davidson is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Penelope Fitzgerald, a frequent and much-missed contributor to the London Review, died in 2000. She wrote three biographies and ten works of fiction, all in print.
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.
A.L. Kennedy’s novels include Original Bliss.
Edwin Morgan’s most recent book is Tales from Baron Munchausen (Mariscat). The Play of Gilgamesh is due from Carcanet this year.
John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacy, written with Leo Bersani, is due in April. Penguin have just reissued his first book, about Donald Winnicott.
Lorna Sage died in January 2001. Part of her autobiography, Bad Blood, for which she won the Whitbread Biography Prize, was first published in the LRB in 1993.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Marina Warner’s books include From the Beast to the Blonde, Indigo and most recently, Phantasmagoria. She teaches at the University of Essex.
