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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 8 · 15 April 1999
Terry Castle: Boss Ladies, Watch Out!
- A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman by Rosemary Mahoney
Your Correspondent, Chris Wheal, Duncan Wu, John Mitchell, Said Aburish, G. Colin Jimack, John Kenny, Rebecca Loncraine, Jan Udris, Olivier Todd, Jeremy Bernstein, Doris Tranter, Stephen Budiansky, Nikolaus Lobkowicz, Jonathan Brown
Linda Nochlin: The Surprising Boldness of Mary Cassatt
- Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman edited by Judith Barter
- Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women by Griselda Pollock
Peter Campbell
- Millais: Portraits by Peter Funnell and Malcolm Warner
- John Everett Millais by G.H. Fleming
- Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer by Stephen Wildman and John Christian
- Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity edited by Tim Barringer and Elizabeth Prettejohn
Michael Wood: Musil starts again
- Diaries 1899-1942 by Robert Musil, translated by Philip Payne
Frank Kermode: A Pointless Book about Pilate
- Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man by Ann Wroe
Tariq Ali finds old friends and new enemies in Lahore
Conor Gearty: Sixty Years of Anti-Terrorist Legislation
- Legislation against Terrorism: A Consultation Paper. CM 4178. Home Office and Northern Ireland Office
Mary Beard: Norfolk Girl gets Nobel Prize
- Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life by Georgina Ferry
Frances Spalding
- New Art New World: British Art in Postwar Society by Margaret Garlake
- Cultural Offensive: America’s Impact on British Art since 1945 by John Walker
Andy Beckett
- The Nation’s Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1 by Simon Garfield
David Goldie
- Morcambe and Wise by Graham McCann
Contributors
Tariq Ali’s new book, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, will be published by Simon and Schuster in September.
Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS. Her books include a Life of Jane Ellen Harrison and The Parthenon.
Andy Beckett’s Pinochet in Piccadilly is out in paperback. He is writing a book about Britain in the 1970s.
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Terry Castle lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford. She is the editor of The Literature of Lesbianism, and the author of Boss Ladies, Watch Out!, a book of essays, many from the LRB. She has a blog at terry-castle-blog.blogspot.com
Raymond Friel’s collections of poems include Seeing the River and Renfrewshire in Old Photographs.
Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and professor of human rights law at the LSE, has written a number of books on terrorism and human rights.
David Goldie, who teaches in the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde, is an editor of Beyond Scotland: Scottish Literature in the 20th Century, due later this year.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
John Lloyd is a former labour editor of the Financial Times and the author of An Anatomy of Russia and Loss without Limit, about the miners’ strike of 1984-85.
Linda Nochlin teaches art history at New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
Frances Spalding’s books include The Tate: A History, The Bloomsbury Group and Whistler.
Theo Tait works for the Week.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.