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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 4 · 18 February 1999
Peter Clarke on the Journals of Woodrow Wyatt
- The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt: Volume I edited by Sarah Curtis
Wendy Doniger: Dinosaur Icons
- The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon by W.J.T. Mitchell
John Sutherland listens to REM
- An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture by Roger Scruton
Adam Phillips on mourning
- Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier
Alan Bennett, Valentin Lyubarsky, Duncan Wu, Brian Cox, Lex Lefebvre, Adam Tickell, Peter Stansill, Mark Lilly, Mark Turner, Peter Cadogan, Barry Martin, David Cesarani, Garret FitzGerald, Margaret Kennedy
R.W. Johnson: Did the Kaiser get it right?
- The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
Brendan Simms
- The Life of Edvard Benes, 1884-1948: Czechoslovakia in Peace and War by Zbynek Zeman and Antonin Klimek
Penelope Fitzgerald
- Whistling in the Dark: Memory and Culture in Wartime London by Jean Freedman
James Davidson
- No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock by Marina Warner
John Banville: Olympic-Standard Depravity
- Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind by David Cesarani
James Francken
- Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones
David Craig
- The Good Times by James Kelman
- Near Neighbours by Gordon Legge
Robert Irwin: Richard Aldington’s Gripes
- Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia: A Cautionary Tale by Fred Crawford
- Lawrence the Uncrowned King of Arabia by Michael Asher
Basil Davidson: Portugal’s Empire
- The Lusiads by Luí Vaz de Camões, translated by Landeg White
- Counterinsurgency in Africa: The Portuguese Way of War, 1961-1974 by John Cann
- The Decolonisation of Portuguese Africa by Norrie MacQueen
- African Guerrillas edited by Christopher Clapham
Rakiya Omaar: Sisters at War
- What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa edited by Meredith Turshen and Clotilde Twagiramariya
Jenny Diski: To Portobello on Angel Dust
- The Ossie Clark Diaries edited by Henrietta Rous
Contributors
John Banville’s latest novel is The Sea.
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.
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Basil Davidson is an honorary fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the author of West Africa before the Colonial Era.
Jenny Diski is writing a book about St Helena. A novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is coming out in November.
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of, among other books, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India and The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.
Penelope Fitzgerald, a frequent and much-missed contributor to the London Review, died in 2000. She wrote three biographies and ten works of fiction, all in print.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
Terence Hawkes is an emeritus professor of English at Cardiff University and general editor of the Accents on Shakespeare series. Shakespeare in the Present is due this year.
Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.
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.
Rakiya Omaar works for the London-based human rights organisation, African Rights.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacies, written with Leo Bersani, is out now. A book on the pleasures of kindness, written with Barbara Taylor, is due in January.
Rachel Sevenzo works for the London-based human rights organisation, African Rights.
Brendan Simms, a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, is the author of The Impact of Napoleon and, with Alexander Nicoll, of Bosnia.
John Sutherland’s Life of Stephen Spender was published in May 2004. Formerly of University College London, he teaches at Caltech in Pasadena.
Adam Thorpe’s fifth collection of poems, Birds with a Broken Wing, is due in May.
