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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 20 · 14 October 1999
Terry Eagleton on The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín
Elizabeth Lowry on J.M. Coetzee
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee
Michael Wood on Headlong by Michael Frayn
- Headlong by Michael Frayn
Thomas Laqueur: The Price of Blood
- Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr
Jerry White, Harold Love, John Murphy, Neil Hornick, Graham Kemp, John Torrance, Carol Rumens, Sean McDougall, Gene Damon, Dane Jackson, John Haffenden
R.W. Johnson: Truth, Lies and Reconciliation
- The Truth about the Truth Commission by Anthea Jeffery
Arnold Rattenbury: The Sanity of Ivor Gurney
- 'Severn and Somme' and 'War's Embers' by Ivor Gurney, edited by R.K.R. Thornton
- 80 Poems or So by Ivor Gurney, edited by George Walter and R.K.R. Thornton
Contributors
Simon Carnell is working on his first collection of poems.
Rosemary Dinnage is a writer on literary and psychoanalytical subjects who lives in London.
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
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.
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
Elizabeth Lowry’s first novel, The Bellini Madonna, will be published by Quercus in July.
Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University. Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays is his most recent book.
Sean O’Brien’s fourth book of poems, Ghost Train, won the 1995 Forward Prize. The Deregulated Muse, a collection of essays on contemporary poetry, is published by Bloodaxe.
Arnold Rattenbury began as an editor (Our Time and Theatre Today), became an exhibition designer and is the author of seven volumes of poetry.
Michael Wood teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge.
