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HUGH MASSINGBERD is Obituaries Editor of the Daily Telegraph . His Irish Family Record, published under his name of Hugh Montgomery Massingberd , is unquestionably the definitive work on this important subject. Recently, to the great sorrow of his many friends, he dropped the middle patronymic Montgomery in favour of the New Age, democratic or 'classless' style under which he now writes.

BRYAN APPLEYARD whose brilliant analysis of the modern world, Understanding the Present (Picador £14.99), was reviewed by Williarn Rees-Mogg in May's Literary Review, has recently moved his indispensable column on the modern scene from Andrew Neil 's disgusting Sunday Times to Sirnon Jenkins's much improved Times, to the new anxiety of his many admirers.

SUE CREWE recently retired from what is unquestionably the grandest job in British journalism, the authorship of Jennifer 's Diary in Harpers & Queen. In its awesome responsibilities, it might easily be compared with the post of Chief of Protocol at the White House . She is now Social Editor of th e magazine .

ANNE SOMERSET, married to a painter, is now generally recognised as A L Rowse's successor to the title of most readable expert on the Tudor period.

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BIOGRAPHY

SEX, POLITICS AND RELIGION

NEW YORK LETTER

AMERICA AMERICA

1 AUBERON WAUGH

4 BRYAN APPLEYARD Michel Foucault Didier Eribon 6 JWM THOMPSON Lloyd George Chris Wrigley 7 ANNE SoMERSET The Six Wives ofHenry VIII Antonia Fraser 9 DAVID CHJPP TheNewEmperors: Mao andDeng-A Dual

Biography Harrison E Salisbury 10 ALAN BELL Circe: The Life ofEdith, Marchioness of

Londonderry Anne de Courcy 11 DAviD PA scoE ]amesJoyce: The YearsofGrowth 1882-1915

Peter Costello 13 WENDY BRANDMARKFannyBrice: TheOriginalFunnyGirl

Herbert G Goldman 14 FRANK Mc LYNN Robert Bridges Catherine Phillips 15 SuE CREWEKeeper of the Gate: Behind the Scenes in the Reagan

White House Selwa 'Lucky'Roosevelt

17 MATT SEATON In Theory -Classes, Nations, Literatures Aijaz

Ahmad 18 HuGH MASSINGBERD The Catholic Families Mark Bence-Jones 20 ANTHONY BLOND Second Chance: Two Centuries ofGerman

Speaking Jews in the UK (Ed) J CB Mohr 21 SusiE CAMPBELL Women and Literacy Marcella Ballara 24 EowARD KEMP Sexual Underworlds of theEnlightenment (Ed)

Roy Porter & G S Rousseau 24 A PRI SM Love and Sexuality: An Exploration of Venus and Mars

Babs Kirby & Janey Stubbs

25 ]IM H aLT

28 STEPHEN AM !DON Make Room for TVLynn Spigel 29 MICHA EL A ScuLLY Sam Walton, Made in America: My Story

Sam Walton with John Huey The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure Juliet B Schor

READERSHIP SURVEY 31

ORIGINAL PAPERBACKS 35 MIK E PETTY

BELLES LETTRES 36 CLAIRE MONKDesdemona-IfOnly YouHadSpoken Christine

Briickner 37 MARYMcGowAN Prefaces to Shakespeare Harley Granville

Barker

Editor: AusERON WAUGH Deputy Editor: L oLA BussosH

Business Manager& Supreme Consultant: RoBERT PosNER

Advertising Manager: JoNATHAN D EWLAP ChiefEditorial Assistant and Deputy Manager: NA NCY SLAD EK

Publisher: NAIM ATTALLAH Founding Editor: DR ANN E SMITH Cover illustration by William Rushton

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