July 1997 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Conflict | General | Literary biography | Last Word | Essays & Diaries | Essays & Letters | Fiction I Conflict Sebastian Shakespeare When the Time came to send for a Novelist News of a Kidnapping By Gabriel García Márquez LR General Michael Waterhouse Remembering Loved Ones By Their Smell The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal By Peter C Jupp and Glennys Howarth (ed) LR George Stern Useful Occupations Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years By Simon Singh Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem By Amir D Aczel LR Literary biography Nikolai Tolstoy A Genial Man Despite His Humble Origins Anton Chekhov: A Life By Donald Rayfield LR Last Word Malcolm Bradbury Is This the Greatest American Novel Ever? Mason & Dixon By Thomas Pynchon LR Essays & Diaries A S Byatt Her Philosophical Essays Changed Everything Existentials and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature By Iris Murdoch (edited by Peter Conradi) LR Essays & Letters Rhoda Koenig Still Elegantly Gloomy about America’s Future Virgin Islands: A Dependency of United States, Essays 1992-1997 By Gore Vidal LR Fiction I Louise Guinness Life Without Men Like By Ali Smith LR
Sebastian Shakespeare When the Time came to send for a Novelist News of a Kidnapping By Gabriel García Márquez LR
Michael Waterhouse Remembering Loved Ones By Their Smell The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal By Peter C Jupp and Glennys Howarth (ed) LR
George Stern Useful Occupations Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years By Simon Singh Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem By Amir D Aczel LR
A S Byatt Her Philosophical Essays Changed Everything Existentials and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature By Iris Murdoch (edited by Peter Conradi) LR
Rhoda Koenig Still Elegantly Gloomy about America’s Future Virgin Islands: A Dependency of United States, Essays 1992-1997 By Gore Vidal LR
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