April 1999 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Foreign Parts | Biography | Fiction | Fiction I | General Foreign Parts Percy Cradock Where Real Penetration is Impossible The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds By Jonathan Spence LR Biography Richard Gray Barbaric Yawp Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself By Jerome Loving LR Fiction Alastair Niven Rock ‘n’ Quake The Ground Beneath Her Feet By Salman Rushdie LR Fiction I Caroline Moore Among the Members of a Quartet An Equal Music By Vikram Seth LR Victoria Glendinning Perhaps There Is Something Wrong With Our Brains Mara and Dann: An Adventure By Doris Lessing LR David Profumo Gracile but Ludic in its Martianism The Plato Papers By Peter Ackroyd General Allan Massie Much More Useful than Writing Novels The Lighthouse Stevensons By Bella Bathurst LR Mary Keen Follow the Testicles The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession By Susan Orlean LR
Percy Cradock Where Real Penetration is Impossible The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds By Jonathan Spence LR
Victoria Glendinning Perhaps There Is Something Wrong With Our Brains Mara and Dann: An Adventure By Doris Lessing LR
Mary Keen Follow the Testicles The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession By Susan Orlean LR
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