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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 24 · 10 December 1998
Peter Clarke: eight years after
Rebecca Mead on Lorrie Moore
- Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Edmund White: Gide in Love
- Andre Gide: A Life in the Present by Alan Sheridan
- Andre Gide ou la vocation du bonheur. Tome 1, 1869-1911 by Claude Martin
Roger Scruton, Stephen Vizinczey, Sylvia Lawson, J.B. Paul, Alexis Lykiard, Diana Hendry, Peter Claus, David Craig, Richard Boston, T.H. Barrett, Mat Pires, Nicolas Walter
Ian Gilmour
- This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair by Hugo Young
David A. Bell
- The Perfidy of Albion: French Perceptions of England during the French Revolution by Norman Hampson
- Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders by Don Herzog
Andrew O’Hagan: work in progress
Jenny Diski
- Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of the Biblical Myth by Carol Delaney
Gabriele Annan
- Alma Mahler-Werfel: The Diaries 1898-1902 translated by Antony Beaumont
Elaine Showalter
- Between Us Girls by Joe Orton
- 'Fred & Madge' and 'The Visitors' by Joe Orton
John Burnside
- Happy like Murderers by Gordon Burn
Zoë Heller
- Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life by Jane Mulvagh
Contributors
Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.
David A. Bell’s most recent book is The First Total War. He teaches French history at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
John Burnside’s new novel, Glister, will appear in May. He is a reader in English at St Andrews.
Peter Clarke’s book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Indian independence in August.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died on 21 September 2007.
Zoë Heller’s novel, Everything You Know, came out in 1999.
Rebecca Mead is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, many of which were first published in the London Review, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize award for fiction.
W.G. Runciman is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a former president of the General Council of British Shipping.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
Edmund White is a novelist and the author of a biography of Proust.
