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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 5 · 5 March 1998
Terry Castle on The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale
- The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale
James Davidson: Apollonios Rhodios
- Apollonios Rhodios: The Argonautika translated by Peter Green
Marilyn Butler: What Jane Austen Read
- Jane Austen : A Life by David Nokes
- Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Murray Sayle, Jeffrey Masten, Anna Crowe, David Ames Curtis, David Turner, Peter Kilander, Paul Whittaker, Ronald Phillips, Michael Dibdin, Gerald Nason, S.E. Yousoufian
Tim Radford: Yuri and the Astronauts
- Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford
- Countdown: A History of Space Flight by T.A. Heppenheimer
- Something New under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age by Helen Gavaghan
- Space and the American Imagination by Howard McCurdy
Philip Kitcher
- Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead by Gina Kolata
- Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World by Lee Silver
F.M.L. Thompson
- Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day by Joan Thirsk
Roy Porter
- English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837 by E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Davies
- The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap by Alan Macfarlane
Lorna Sage
- Acts of Mutiny by Derek Beavan
Michael Gorra
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto in Fistfight Heaven by Sherman Alexie
- Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
- Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
Peter Clarke
- Major: A Political Life by Anthony Seldon
Ronan Bennett on the demonising of Gerry Adams
- Man of War, Man of Peace? The Unauthorised Biography of Gerry Adams by David Sharrock and Mark Devenport
H.C.G. Matthew on devolution
Contributors
Ronan Bennett is the author of The Catastrophist and co-author of Stolen Years, Paul Hill’s account of his trial and imprisonment after the Guildford and Woolwich bombings.
Marilyn Butler is Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. She is the author of Jane Austen and the War of Ideas and of Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries.
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
Peter Clarke’s book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire will be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Indian independence in August.
Don Coles lives in Toronto. Someone Has Stayed in Stockholm: New and Selected Poems was published by Arc in 1995.
James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.
Michael Gorra teaches English at Smith College in Massachusetts. He is the author of After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie.
Sheila Hale has written the American Express guides to Venice and Florence & Tuscany.
Philip Kitcher, a professor of philosophy at Columbia, is the author of Science, Truth and Democracy, among other books.
H.C.G. Matthew’s Gladstone: 1809-98 was published in paperback in 1997. He died in October 1999.
Roy Porter, who died in March 2002, was a regular, much admired and much envied contributor to the LRB: he was the author of an astonishing number of books, including London: A Social History (1994), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997) and Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2000).
Tim Radford is science editor at the Guardian.
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.
F.M.L. Thompson, a former director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London, is the editor of The Cambridge Social Hisory of Britain, 1750-1950 and of Landowners, Capitalists and Entrepreneurs.
