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BRIAN MASTERS has just completed a new biography of E F Benson, the first to have access to primary family documents. It will probably be called E F Benson and his Family, and will be published by Chatto and Windus in August.
MICHAEL DE-LA-NOY's Michael Ramsey: A Portrait has just been published in paperback by Fount - with all the photographs mixed up.
ANDREW ROBERTS, whose biography of Lord Halifax is reviewed by Alan Bell in this issue, plans a launch party this month in the Cabinet War Room under Horse Guards. Educated for a time at Cranleigh, he is immensely rich and owns a London taxi . He was introduced to Literary Review by Grub Smith.
SOPHIA SACKVILLE-WEST, who does not have quite so much money, is to be found working in the library at Knole , which is extremely cold. We hope to see more of her in Sopbia's Room, the newly opened addition to Beak Street's famed Academy , over which she once presided with a stern rod .
HENRY ROOT used to receive lively, mocking letters from many of the girls at St Mary's Convent, Shaftesbury, when he was in his prime, but be has not received them for many years now.
FROM THE PULPIT 1 AUBERON WAUGH
AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH 4 JOHN TA YLOR Are You Politically Correct?
10 MATT SEATON Barbarian Sentiments William Pfaff 11 BRIAN MASTERS Darkness Visible: A Memoir ofMadness
William Styron
OPPRESSION
12 T ARIQ Au Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 13 AN DREW RoBERTS Empire and Sexuality: The British
Experience Ronald Hyam 14 CHARLES MILLER 'Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite' The Rise and Fall of the Ceaucescus Edward Behr 15 SARAH BAXTER Honour and Shame: Women in Modern Iraq
Sana Al-Khayyat Women, Islam and the State (Ed) Deniz Kandiyoti
BAD TASTE
WOMEN
17 CHARLES SHAAR-MURRAY Shock Value: A Tasteful Book
About Bad Taste John Waters
18 AND REI NAvRozov Dear Mr Gorbachev (Ed) L S Fischel
Letters to Gorbachev (Ed) R McKay 19 }OHN KEMP The Monument: Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq Samir al-Khalil
21 H EN RY R ooT There's Something About A Convent Girl (Ed)
Jackie Bennett and Rosemary Forgan 22 JoAN SMITH Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de
Siecle Elaine Showa!ter 23 SusAN WATKI NS Tyrant or Victim? A History of the British
Governess Alice Renton 24 ALI SON SH ELL Those Bloody Women: Three Heroines of the
Boer War Brian Roberts
NEW YORK LETTER 26 ]IM HaLT
FOREIGN FICTION 28 }uLIAN BARN ES Too Loud a Solitude Bohumil Hrabal
29 CLARE CoLVIN Such a Long Journey Rohinton Mistry 29 PHI L WARK Geuing Used eo Dying Zhang Xianliang 30 ] ASPER R EES The Miracle Game Josef Skvorecky 31 STEPH EN AMI DON East is East T Coraghessan Boyle 32 J uLIAN LoosE The Music of Chance Paul Auster 33 KATHRY HuGHES Happenstance Carol Shields 34 MrCHAEL WATERHOU SE Cambridge Caryl Phillips
Editor: AUBERON WAUGH Deputy Editor: LOLA BuBBOSH Subscriptio11s & Busi11ess Ma11ager: ROBERT POSNER
Ad11ertisi11g Ma11ager: j ONATHAN DEWLAP Chief EditoriaiA ssis ta11t a11d Deputy Ma11ager: N ANCY SLADEK
Assista111 Editor: Lucv MA VCOCK Editorial Assista11t: HELENA D ' ARMS
Desig11er: STEPHEN PARK ER Publisher: NAIM ATTALLAH Fou11di11g Editor: DR ANNE SMJTII Cover il/ustratio11 by Wil/ia111 Rusl1to11
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