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Contents
Vol. 23 No. 1 · 4 January 2001
Colm Tóibín on Francis Stuart’s wartime broadcasts
- The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart edited by Brendan Barrington
Naomi Shepherd, J. Spencer, Charles Glass, Elizabeth Young, R.W. Johnson, Gavin Lewis, Barbara Taylor, John A. Davis, Parina Douzina Stiakaki, Brian Pringle, John Widdop, C.K. Stead, Lawrence Stokes, Keith Flett, Martha Nell Smith, Ron Haggart
James Wood: the life, times, letters and politics of Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal
- Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim
- Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim
- I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Paul Wilson
- Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Edith Partiger
- Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by James Naughton
Peter Mair
- The Heart Beats on the Left by Oskar Lafontaine, translated by Ronald Taylor
Thomas Jones: Bo yakasha.
Jeremy Harding
- Lennon Remembers by Jann Wenner
Zoë Heller
- At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard
- Dream Catcher by Margaret Salinger
Peter Campbell: Turner’s watercolours
Patrick Collinson
- Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England
Elaine Showalter on Georgio Armani
- A Dedicated Follower of Fashion by Holly Brubach
- Fashion Today by Colin McDowell
- Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender and Society in Clothing by Diana Crane
- Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries by Avril Hart and Susan North
- Don We Now Our Gay Appalrel: Gay Men’s Dress in the 20th Century by Shuan Cole
- The Gallery of Fashion by Aileen Ribeiro
- Giorgio Armani by Germano Celant and Harold Koda
Contributors
Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.
Barbara Everett’s books include Young Hamlet and Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin.
James Francken, a former assistant editor at the LRB, works at the Daily Telegraph.
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.
Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems and Collected Film Poetry are just out; his 70th birthday is on 30 April.
Zoë Heller’s novel, Everything You Know, came out in 1999.
Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
Thomas Jones is one of the London Review’s contributing editors.
Stephen Knight is the author of two collections of poems, Flowering Limbs and Dream City Cinema, and of Mr Schnitzel, a novel.
Peter Mair teaches comparative politics at Leiden University and the European University Institute in Italy.
Les Murray was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1999; he is published in the UK by Carcanet.
Linda Nochlin teaches art history at New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
Joseph Roth’s ‘The Excavation’ is part of an unfinished novel, ‘Strawberries’.
Elaine Showalter is preparing a literary history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.
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.
John Upton is a lawyer who lives in London.
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.
