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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 14 · 15 July 1999
Jenny Turner on The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
- The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Jeremy Waldron on John Rawls
- Collected Papers by John Rawls, edited by Samuel Freeman
Chris Purnell, Victor Winstone, Stephen Howe, Graham Martin, Luke Prodromou, Giles Foden, J.G. Owen, Keith Flett, Jason Hall, Editor, ‘London Review’
Linda Colley: Mother Germaine
- The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer
- Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew by Christine Wallace
Frank Kermode: A.J. Ayer’s Winning Ways
- A.J. Ayer: A Life by Ben Rogers
Thomas de Waal
- Russia's War by Richard Overy
- Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Ian Gilmour: Two Duff Kings
Bernard Porter
- The Culture of Secrecy in Britain 1832-1998 by David Vincent
Brian Rotman
- Between Silk and Cyanide: The Story of SOE’s Code War by Leo Marks
David Blackbourn: Two Duff Kings
- Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser’s Early Life, 1859-88 by John Röhl, translated by Jeremy Gaines
Misha Donat
- Robert Schumann: Herald of a ‘New Poetic Age’ by John Daverio
- The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffman, translated by Anthea Bell
Julian Bell
- Rembrandt by Himself edited by Christopher White and Quentin Buvelot
- Rembrandt : The Painter at Work by Ernst van de Wetering
Gabriele Annan
- The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Richard Rudgley
- The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
- The Tulip by Anna Pavord
- Plants of Life, Plants of Death by Frederick Simoons
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.
Gabriele Annan is a writer and journalist who lives in London.
Julian Bell is the author of Mirror of the World: A New History of Art, which came out last month.
David Blackbourn, whose Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany was reviewed in the LRB by Neal Ascherson, teaches history at Harvard.
Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her latest book is The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.
Misha Donat, a Radio 3 music producer for 26 years, bid John Birt’s BBC a less than fond farewell in 1999.
Ian Gilmour was secretary of state for defence under Edward Heath and deputy foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher. He died on 21 September 2007.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
John Kinsella’s most recent book of poems is The New Arcadia.
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.
Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.
Brian Rotman is a member of the faculty of comparative studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Signifying Nothing (about zero) and of Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing’s Machine.
Richard Rudgley is the author of The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances and the editor of Wildest Dreams: An Anthology of Drug-Related Literature.
Jenny Turner’s novel The Brainstorm is out now in paperback.
Thomas de Waal has been covering the Caucasus and Chechnya since 1994, as Caucasus editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London. He is researching a book on the Black Sea.
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University Law School, is the author of Law and Disagreement and God, Locke and Equality.