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Contents
Vol. 21 No. 24 · 9 December 1999
R.W. Johnson: Major and Lamont
- The Autobiography by John Major
- In Office by Norman Lamont
Frank Kermode has his say
William Stevens, Nicholas Perkins, Neil Forster, Benjamin Martin Bly, Anthony Sampson, Lionel (Rusty) Bernstein, Christopher Small, Richard Oxenburgh, Simon Currie, Steven Aucella, Ernst Wangermann, Keith Flett
Malcolm Bull: Three Cheers for Apocalypse
- Conversations about the End of Time by Umberto Eco and Stephen Jay Gould
- Apocalypses: Prophesies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs throughout the Ages by Eugen Weber
- Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium by Richard Popkin and David Katz
Anand Menon writes in defence of the European Commission
David Edgar: Noël Coward’s Return
- 1956 and All That by Dan Reballato
- Collected Plays: Six by Noël Coward
- Collected Plays: Seven by Noël Coward
- Collected Revue Sketches and Parodies by Noël Coward
- Noël Coward: A Life in Quotes edited by Barry Day
- Noël Coward: The Complete Lyrics edited by Barry Day
Jonathan Coe: Vive Tati!
- Jacques Tati by David Bellos
Ian Hamilton
- Berryman's Shakespeare edited by John Haffenden
- John Berryman’s Personal Library: A Catalogue by Richard Kelly
A.O. Scott
- Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Rosemary Hill: The Cult of Elizabeth David
- Elizabeth David: A Biography by Lisa Chaney
- Waiting at the Kitchen Table. Elizabeth David: The Authorised Biography by Artemis Cooper
Contributors
Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.
Malcolm Bull is the head of art history and theory at the Ruskin in Oxford. His books include Seeing Things Hidden: Apocalypse, Vision and Totality.
John Burnside’s most recent novel is Glister. He teaches at the University of St Andrews.
Jonathan Coe’s most recent novel, The Rain before It Falls, is published by Penguin.
David Craig’s novel The Unbroken Harp is just out from Whittles.
David Edgar is currently adapting Julian Barnes’s Arthur and George for the stage and writing a new play for Out of Joint.
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.
Rosemary Hill’s book about Pugin, God’s Architect, is out in paperback this summer.
R.W. Johnson is an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His new book, South Africa’s Brave New World, will be published by Penguin in the spring.
Frank Kermode’s most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. He lives in Cambridge.
Anand Menon is a member of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford.
A.O. Scott is a book reviewer for Newsday.
Christopher Tayler lives in London.
