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Contents
Vol. 20 No. 10 · 21 May 1998
David Bromwich on Robert Southey
- Robert Southey: A Life by Mark Storey
R.W. Johnson on Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 by Ross McKibbin
Rebecca Mead on Wasted: A Memoir of anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher
- Wasted: A Memoir of anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher
Neil Forster, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Zich, Andrew Gow, Richard Davies, Henrik Rosenmeier, Andrew Rawlinson, Keith Flett
Ashis Nandy
- Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny by Stanley Wolpert
Amit Chaudhuri
- Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
Andrew Saint
- Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers
Simon Schaffer
- The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773 by Robert Schofield
Catherine Wilson
- The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation by Clara Pinto-Correia
Terence Hawkes
- The Fury of Men’s Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal by Bruce Thomas Boehrer
Anna Vaux
- Bad Mothers: The Politics of Blame in 20th-Century America edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky
- Madonna and Child: Towards a New Politics of Motherhood by Melissa Benn
P.N. Furbank
- Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric by Mark Amory
Contributors
Andy Beckett’s Pinochet in Piccadilly is out in paperback. He is writing a book about Britain in the 1970s.
David Bromwich teaches English at Yale and is the editor of a selection of Burke’s writings, On Empire, Liberty and Reform.
M.F. Burnyeat has returned to Robinson College, Cambridge after ten years as senior research fellow in philosophy at All Souls. He is the author of The Theaetetus of Plato, among other books.
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.
P.N. Furbank is general editor, with W.R. Owens, of The Works of Daniel Defoe. His other books include Unholy Pleasure, E.M. Forster: A Life and Behalf.
Terence Hawkes is an emeritus professor of English at Cardiff University and general editor of the Accents on Shakespeare series. Shakespeare in the Present is due this year.
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.
Justine Jordan works at the Guardian.
Rebecca Mead is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
Ashis Nandy is a political psychologist and social theorist at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi.
Peter Porter’s collection Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces came out in 1997.
John Redmond’s first collection of poems, Thumb’s Width, is out this month.
Andrew Saint is the general editor of the Survey of London; his most recent book is Architect and Engineer.
Simon Schaffer teaches the history of science at Cambridge. His collection of essays on inquiry and invention from the Renaissance to early industrialisation, co-edited with Lissa Roberts and Peter Dear, is due next year.
Stephen Smith is the Northern Correspondent of Channel Four News. His book on Cuba, The Land of Miracles, is published by Abacus.
Anna Vaux works on the TLS.
Catherine Wilson teaches the history of philosophy at the University of Alberta.