January 1999 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: History | Oppression | General | American Fiction | Art & Artists History Ruth Dudley Edwards A Great Story, but Only One Side Given The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New By Thomas Keneally LR Oppression Roy Hattersley Must Be A Romantic Dr Strangelove, I Presume By Michael Foot LR General Edwina Currie Come Again? What Do Women Really Want? Power, Sex, Bread and Roses By Erica Jong LR American Fiction Malcolm Bradbury An Ageing Writer’s Great Revenge and Final Triumph Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel By John Updike Art & Artists John McEwan Art Writing as Gossip or Sociology? Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artists By James Fenton The Penguin Book of Art Writing By Martin Gayford and Karen Wright LR
Ruth Dudley Edwards A Great Story, but Only One Side Given The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New By Thomas Keneally LR
Malcolm Bradbury An Ageing Writer’s Great Revenge and Final Triumph Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel By John Updike
John McEwan Art Writing as Gossip or Sociology? Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artists By James Fenton The Penguin Book of Art Writing By Martin Gayford and Karen Wright LR
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