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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 14 · 16 July 1998
R.W. Johnson on The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War by Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova
- The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War by Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova
Lawrence Rainey
- Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life by Nathalie Blondel
- The Taverner Novels: ‘Armed with Madness’, ‘Death of Felicity Taverner’ by Mary Butts
- The Classical Novels: ‘The Macedonian’, ‘Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra’ by Mary Butts
- 'Ashe of Rings' and Other Writings by Mary Butts
John Sturrock: the Social Text Hoax
- Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
Hilary Mantel: Aux Armes, Citoyennes
- The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution by Dominique Godineau, translated by Katherine Sharp
Harry Lockhart, Aidan Foster-Carter, Gordon Poole, Michael Kellett, David Rice, Jack Pudding, Simon Frazer, Fred Inglis, Benedict Nixon
Roy Foster
- Ernie O’Malley: IRA Intellectual by Richard English
Gabriele Annan
- The Artist's Widow by Sheila Mackay
Nicholas Jose
- Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
Geoffrey Wall
- These Jaundiced Loves: A Translation of Tristan Corbičre’s ‘Les Amours Jaunes’ by Christopher Pilling
Michael Dobson
- Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry by James Biester
- Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvellous by Peter Platt
- Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder by T.G. Bishop
- The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
Gerald Hammond
- Laughter at the Foot of the Cross by M.A. Screech
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Michael Dobson is professor of Shakespeare Studies at Birkbeck. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet, among other books.
Roy Foster is the Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford. His most recent book is Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change 1970-2000.
Gerald Hammond’s books include The Making of the English Bible and Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems 1616-60. He is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester.
R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.
Nicholas Jose lives in Sydney. His novels include The Rose Crossing and The Custodians.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
Lynne Mastnak is based in Cambridge, where she is studying the effects of political violence on children. She is co-ordinator of a child psychiatry programme in Kosovo for Child Advocacy International.
Lawrence Rainey is the author of Institutions of Modernism. He holds the chair in Modernist Literature at the University of York.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
Geoffrey Wall teaches at the University of York. His translation of Flaubert’s Selected Letters was published in 1997.
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.
