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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 19 · 30 September 1999
Terry Castle: Sappho
- Victorian Sappho by Yopie Prins
Jerry Fodor: why the brain?
John Lanchester: The Microsoft Trial
- The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson
- Infinite Loop: How Apple, the World’s Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insane by Michael Malone
- Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet by Michael Woolf
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar: revised edition by Eric S. Raymond Buy this book
Ross McKibbin on Blair’s Government at Mid-Term (1999)
Anthony Lewis, R.W. Johnson, Sean Haldane, Martin Rose, Peter Coghill, Charles Simic, Richard Boston, Sylvia Elias, Andy King, Macneil of Barra, Héctor Manjarrez, Samuel Barnish, Hilde De Weerdt
Lorna Sage
- South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin
Hilary Mantel
- The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette by Chantal Thomas, translated by Julie Rose
Frank Kermode
- The Last Life by Claire Messud
Jacqueline Rose
- Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
- Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-98 by Adrienne Rich
Colm Tóibín
- Jews in 20th-century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust by Dermot Keogh
Christopher Hitchens
- Diana Mosley: A Biography by Jan Dalley
James Wood
- Saint Augustine by Gary Wills
Adam Phillips
- The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane by Paul Mariani
- O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber
Amit Chaudhuri: Selections from a work in progress
Michael Wood
- Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrik and ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ by Frederic Raphael
- Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, translated by J.M.Q. Davies
Edward Said
- Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders
Jenny Diski
- Pain: The Science of Suffering by Patrick Wall
James Davidson
- Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy edited by Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne
- The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy edited by P.E. Easterling
- Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space and Theatrical Meaning by David Wiles
Ian Hamilton
- Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of the Ku Klux Klan of the Twenties by David Horowitz
William Empson witnesses the inauguration of the People’s Republic of China
Contributors
John Ashbery’s last collection was Where Shall I Wander; the next will be A Worldly Country.
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
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
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
James Davidson is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Jenny Diski’s new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, will be published in November. She is currently bobbing about on the South Atlantic.
William Empson, who died in 1984, was the author – among many other books – of Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Structure of Complex Words and Milton’s God. His Complete Poems were edited by John Haffenden.
Jerry Fodor is collaborating with Massimo Piattelli-Palamarini on a book about evolution without adaptation.
Ian Hamilton contributed many exact, funny and unsparing pieces on poetry, on novels - and on football - to the LRB. He died on 27 December 2001.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York.
Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.
August Kleinzahler’s most recent collection of poems was The Strange Hours Travellers Keep; he lives in San Francisco.
John Lanchester is a contributing editor at the LRB. His latest book is Family Romance, a memoir.
Ross McKibbin, a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, is the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 and The Evolution of the Labour Party: 1910-24.
Hilary Mantel is writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell.
Andrew O’Hagan’s The Atlantic Ocean, a collection of essays on Britain and America, will be published in June. Be Near Me, his last novel, has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
Adam Phillips’s Intimacy, written with Leo Bersani, is due in April. Penguin have just reissued his first book, about Donald Winnicott.
Jacqueline Rose teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. Her books include On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern World and, most recently, The Question of Zion.
Lorna Sage died in January 2001. Part of her autobiography, Bad Blood, for which she won the Whitbread Biography Prize, was first published in the LRB in 1993.
Edward Said, who died in September 2003, first contributed to the LRB in 1981.
Colm Tóibín is Stein Visiting Writer at Stanford University. His essay in this issue is based on a lecture he gave at the University of Genoa’s Ford Madox Ford conference.
Jenny Turner’s novel, The Brainstorm, is published by Cape.
James Wood’s How Fiction Works is just out. He is also the author of The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief and is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
