July 1999 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Celebration | Art | Fiction | Literary biography | General | Memoirs Celebration Malcolm Bradbury It Really is a Very Important Centenary True at First Light By Ernest Hemingway LR Art Lynn Barber Dalí was not Alone Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917–1945 By Ruth Brandon The Enigma of Giorgio de Chirico By Margaret Crosland Fiction Nicholas Mosley Principled Philanderer Disgrace By J M Coetzee LR Frances Welch A Reason for Incest The Crime of Olga Arbyelina By Andreï Makine LR DJ Taylor Something to Read in the Evenings Man and Boy By Tony Parsons Literary biography Brenda Maddox The Woman Behind the Wheel Véra (Mrs Véra Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage By Stacy Schiff General Joan Smith Have Things Changed? Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant To The New Millennium? By Rosalind Coward Damian Thompson Nothing to Fear Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs Throughout the Ages By Eugen Weber LR Memoirs Jan Morris Impossible Not to Be a Bit Pleased with Himself View from the Summit By Sir Edmund Hillary
Lynn Barber Dalí was not Alone Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917–1945 By Ruth Brandon The Enigma of Giorgio de Chirico By Margaret Crosland
Brenda Maddox The Woman Behind the Wheel Véra (Mrs Véra Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage By Stacy Schiff
Joan Smith Have Things Changed? Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant To The New Millennium? By Rosalind Coward
Damian Thompson Nothing to Fear Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs Throughout the Ages By Eugen Weber LR
Jan Morris Impossible Not to Be a Bit Pleased with Himself View from the Summit By Sir Edmund Hillary
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