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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 16 · 19 August 1999
Marjorie Garber: Sequels
- Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel edited by Paul Budra and Betty Schellenberg
Claudia Pugh-Thomas at Circus School
Heathcote Williams on Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey through Britain by Roger Deakin
- Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey through Britain by Roger Deakin Buy this book
Mark Greenberg, Paul Taylor, Eric de Kuyper, Stan Smith, Brian Taylor, Norman Cho, Richard MacSween, Philip Hoy, Don Coles, George Chowdharay-Best, Hans Koning, Allen Curnow
Gilberto Perez
- Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks: An Authorised and Illustrated Look Inside the Creative Mind of Alfred Hitchcock by Dan Auiler
Jeremy Harding writes about Kosovo
Michael Rogin: Destroying Los Angeles
- Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis
Colin Burrow
- The English Horace: Anthony Alsop and the Traditions of British Latin Verse by D.K. Money
Derek Hirst
- Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-60 by David Norbrook
P.D.G. Thomas
- Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Horne Tooke 1736-1812 by Christina Bewley and David Bewley
R.W. Johnson
- Mandela: The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson
Wolfgang Mommsen
- Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Anthony Howard
- In My Own Time: Reminiscences of a Liberal Leader by Jeremy Thorpe
Michael Wood
- Women Writers at Work edited by George Plimpton
- Just as I Thought by Grace Paley
Contributors
Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm
Marjorie Garber teaches English at Harvard. Quotation Marks and, with Nancy Vickers, The Medusa Reader are both due from Routledge.
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the LRB. His versions of Rimbaud’s poetry are published by Penguin along with John Sturrock’s translation of the letters.
Derek Hirst is the author of England in Conflict 1603-60.
Anthony Howard retired in 1999 from editing the obituary pages of the Times.
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.
August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.
Wolfgang Mommsen is an emeritus professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
Gilberto Perez teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York and is the author of The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium.
Claudia Pugh-Thomas is a writer who lives in London.
Robin Robertson’s third book, Swithering, won the 2006 Forward Prize.
Michael Rogin died in November 2001. Stephen Greenblatt wrote about him in the LRB of 3 January 2002.
P.D.G. Thomas is the author of John Wilkes: A Friend to Liberty.
Heathcote Williams, the author of a number of environmental tracts, recorded the Divine Comedy for Naxos Audio Books.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.