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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 2 · 21 January 1999
Michael Byers discusses the legal implications of the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London in October 1998
Colm Tóibín on A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods
Alan Bennett’s Diary for 1998
Carol Lee, Julian Evans, Jeremy Waldron, Keith Flett, Albert Henderson, Joe Clark, Chris Wheal, Francis Wheen, James Wood, Richard Evans, Alfred Sherman, Bernard Crick
Dinah Birch
- Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority. The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings 1833-36 edited by Jill Liddington
Garret FitzGerald on the Free State’s Fight for Recognition
- Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Vol. I 1919-22 edited by Ronan Fanning
Frank Kermode
- Beck at Bay: A Quasi-Novel by John Updike
John Sturrock
- Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Paul Hammond
- Les Particules élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq
Alex de Waal
- Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross by Caroline Moorehead
- The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff
August Kleinzahler
- The Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting by Keith Alldritt
Robert Crawford
- The Leaf and the Marble by Iain Crichton Smith
Contributors
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Dinah Birch’s new book, Our Victorian Education, will be published later this year.
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Robert Crawford, whose Selected Poems were published in 2005, teaches at St Andrews.
Kwame Dawes has written several books of poetry, including Shook Foil, which is published by Peepal Tree.
Garret FitzGerald is a former leader of Fine Gael; he was Taoiseach between 1981 and 1987.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
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.
C.J. Stone has worked as a car-park attendant and is the author of The Last of the Hippies.
John Sturrock is consulting editor at the London Review.
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.
Alex de Waal is programme director at the Social Science Research Council and the author, with Julie Flint, of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War.
