May 1997 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | Literary biography | Women | General | Belles Lettres Biography Antonia Douro Eternal Horror Countess Dracula: The Life and Times of Elisabeth Bathory, The Blood Countess By Tony Thorne Literary biography Auberon Waugh All We Need Cyril Connolly: A Life By Jeremy Lewis LR Women Tim Ashley Nin in Everything Fire: The Unpublished, Unexpurgated Diary, 1934–1937 By Anaïs Nin LR General Julian Barnes The Game which Demands a Saintly Letting Go Golf Dreams By John Updike Belles Lettres Peter Levi Neglected Importance of the Clown’s Pedigree The Origins of English Nonsense By Noel Malcolm
Antonia Douro Eternal Horror Countess Dracula: The Life and Times of Elisabeth Bathory, The Blood Countess By Tony Thorne
Peter Levi Neglected Importance of the Clown’s Pedigree The Origins of English Nonsense By Noel Malcolm
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