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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 15 · 30 July 1998
Ronan Bennett on the new future of Northern Ireland
Ian Hamilton watches the World Cup
Perry Anderson retraces his father’s career in the Chinese Customs Service
M.F. Burnyeat, Eva Hoffman, W.G. Runciman, David Mason, Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont, James Russell, Hugh Macpherson, Jeffry Kaplow, Peter Forbes, David Powell, D.R. Hughes, Roger Bacon, Roy Faibish, Nicholas Jardine, Kym Martindale
Colm Tóibín on the Great Irish Famine
Jeremy Harding
- Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl
- A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Mark Treharne
William Fiennes
- The Sopranos by Alan Warner
Contributors
Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA.
Ronan Bennett is the author of The Catastrophist and co-author of Stolen Years, Paul Hill’s account of his trial and imprisonment after the Guildford and Woolwich bombings.
William Fiennes’s The Snow Geese was published by Picador in 2002.
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.
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.
Alice Munro is the author of many collections of short stories and novels.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
Susan Wicks has published five collections of poetry, two novels and a short memoir. De-iced is out now.
