ErasuresColm TóibínThis article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. From the LRB letters page: [ 20 August 1998 ] David Craig, Joseph Nuttgens. 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. Other articles by this contributor: Issues of Truth and Invention · Francis Stuart’s wartime broadcasts Don’t abandon me · Borges and the Maids My Darlings · Drinking with Samuel Beckett The Wickedest Woman in Paris · Rupert Everett At St Peter’s · The Dangers of a Priestly Education A Man with My Trouble · Henry James leaves home How to be a wife · The Discretion of Jackie Kennedy Roaming the Greenwood · A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods |