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WILLIAM REES-MOGG published his masterwork, with James Dale-Davidson, in January this year. It was entitled The Great Reckuning: Huw the World Will Change in the Depression of the 1990's, but unfortunately did not receive a review in this magazine because the publishers, Sidgwick & Jackson, neglected to send us an early copy, and no reviewer of sufficient stature was able to consider it in the time available. We hope to review it in paperback later this year. Lord Rees-Mogg, a former Editor of The Times and High Sheriff of Somerset, is chairman and proprietor of Pickering and Chandos Ltd, booksellers, of Pall Mall, SWI.
DENNIS SEWELL is Producer of the brilliant Week in Westminster on Radio 4.
SIMON WATNEY is an art his rorian and critic. He is also a director of the National AIDS Manual. His last book was on the art of Duncan Grant (John Murray), his next one, Practice of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIVIAIDS will be published later this year.
LYNN BARBER's masterpiece Mostly Men, a collection of her interviews from the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Express, comes out in paperback in July from Penguin .
MURRAY SAYLE, foreign correspondent and yachtsman, who was in the forefront of the Australian invasion of Fleet Street in the late 1960s and 1970s, now lives in Japan with his beautiful wife Jenny . Although he came late to fatherhood, he is immensely proud of his three children . They all live together in a paper house which unfortunately burned down not long ago, but has since been rebuilt .
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AUBERON WAUGH WILLIAM R EES -MOGG Understanding the Present Bryan Appleyard BRYAN APPLEYARD The Reckoning: The Murder ofChristopher Mar/owe Charles Nicholl J AMES RoGERS The Big Bang Never Happened Eric J Lerner AMANDA CRAIG The Language ofClothes Alison Lurie Dressed to Kill Colin McDowell RICHARD HoRTON Melancholy and Society Wolf Lepenies Su SAN J EFFREYS The Pursuit ofPleasure Lionel Tiger SIMON WATNEY At Your Own Risk Derek Jarman J AMES STEVENS CuRL The Complete Works ofRobert and]ames Adam David King PETER J ONES A History of Women in the West Vol1: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints (Ed) Pauline Schmitt Pantel 16 ANN 0AKLEY Living Laboratories: Women and Reproductive
Technology Robyn Rowland 17 jANE ELLISON Whores in History Nickie Roberts 18 Juu E WHEELWRIGHT Arms and the Woman Kate Muir 20 PATRI CK T AYLOR-MARTIN Barcelona Robert Hughes 21 SYLVIA CLAYTON More About France Julian More 22 Ros EMARY STOYLE Cote D 'Azur: Inventing the French Riviera
MaryBlume 23 LEo BuRLEY Italian Neighbours Tim Parks 24 MICHAEL GRAY Between the Hammer and the Sickle: Across
Russia by Cycle Simon Vickers 25 SHEILA CoNROY Letter from Athens 26 ]IM HoLT 27 PHI LIP CARAMAN Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City, 1939-1966
Martin Stannard 28 ToNY PARSONS Cleese Encounters Jonathan Margolis 31 BAER P ETTIT Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union Robert V
Remini 32 SoPHIA WATSON TheLastofEnglandTed Walker
A TAXI DRIVER WRITES 33 MARTYN HALCROW FICTION I 34 LYNN BARBER The Russian Girl Kingsley Amis
35 M u RRAY SAY LE Outerbridge Reach Robert Stone 36 JOHN KEMJ> English Music Peter Ackroyd
LITERARY REVIEW May 1992
Editor: Aus ERON W AUGH Deputy Editor: LOLA B ussos H
Business Manager& Supreme Consultant: ROBERT PosNER
Advertising Manager: joNATHAN D EWLAP ChiefEditorial Assistant and Deputy Manager: NANCY SLADEK
Publisher: NAIM ATTALLAH Founding Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Cover illustration by William Rushton
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