February 2002 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Literary biography | Biography & Memoirs | Interview | Resurrection | Fiction Literary biography Ruth Padel Why did the Bitch Have to Leave Him? The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker By Robert Fraser LR Biography & Memoirs Humphrey Carpenter It had to be Coaxed Out of him Tolkien: A Biography By Michael White LR Hugo Vickers She Liked to Dance Naked on Beaches Isadora: The Sensational Life Of Isadora Duncan By Peter Kurth LR Interview Kathryn Hughes Diana Athill at Home LR Resurrection Adam LeBor The Decline and Fall of a Friendship Embers By Sándor Márai (translated by Carol Brown Janeway) LR Fiction John Dugdale Chip, Gary and Denise The Corrections By Jonathan Franzen LR
Ruth Padel Why did the Bitch Have to Leave Him? The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker By Robert Fraser LR
Hugo Vickers She Liked to Dance Naked on Beaches Isadora: The Sensational Life Of Isadora Duncan By Peter Kurth LR
Adam LeBor The Decline and Fall of a Friendship Embers By Sándor Márai (translated by Carol Brown Janeway) LR
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