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Contents

Vol. 21 No. 8   ·   15 April 1999

Terror on the Vineyard

Terry Castle: Boss Ladies, Watch Out!

  • A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman by Rosemary Mahoney

Just Another Western Journalist

John Lloyd in Romania

Letters

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

Theo Tait

Michael Wood: Musil starts again

  • Diaries 1899-1942 by Robert Musil, translated by Philip Payne

Tony Harrison

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

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Terror on the Vineyard
Terry Castle: Boss Ladies, Watch Out!

Just Another Western Journalist
John Lloyd in Romania