CONTENTS

ANTHONY STORR, of Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Psychiatrists , has written seminal works on sexual deviation, human aggression and human destructiveness.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE, who works for the Evening Standard on the Diary and writing features, is waiting for what he feels is a curse on him to be lifted before applying himself to his first novel. Meanwhile, he says he plays football on Tuesday evenings and is often to be seen in Green Street, whatever that may mean. He recendy attended the Coronation of King Ronnie of Buganda, and is seriously thinking of settling there.

DEBORAH BOSLEY plans a guide to the beautiful coastal resorts of Britain with Candida Lycett-Green. Deborah is the author of Rough Guides to California and San Francisco, and is the new woman in the life of Richard lngrams.

KINGSLEY AMIS, whose collection of short stories Mr Barrett's Secret aud Other Stories was rapturou sly re viewed by Rosemary Stoyle in October's Literary Review, has a new novel coming from Hutchinson in April under the mysterious tide You Can't Do Both .

ROBERT HARRJS after conquering the world with his ingenious reconstruction of Hitler's survival, Fatherland, is writing a new novel based on the Enigma code-breaking exercise.

FROM THE PULPIT WORKING WOMEN

1 AUBERON WAUGH 4 JANE DUNN Wishing on the Moon :The Life and Times <if

Billie Holiday Donald Clarke 6 RHODA KOENIG The Ziegfeld Touch: The Life and Times <if

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. Richard and Paulette Ziegfeld 7 DAN CoNAGHAN Battling for News : The Rise <if the JIJ.i>man

Reporter Anne Sebba 8 LESLIE SHARMAN A JIJ.i>man's View: How Hollywood Spoke to JIJ.i>men, 193D-1960 Jeanine Basinger

BIOGRAPHY

WRONGDOERS

9 ROBERT HARRIS A J P Taylor Adam Sisman 11 J W M THOMPSON Pastoral Symphony Chapman Pincher 12 PHILIP OAK.EsJoseph Losey: A Revenge on Life David

Caute

15 CopN WILSON The Hermit <if Peking: The Hidden Life <if

Sir Edmund Backhouse Hugh Trevor-Roper 17 ANTHONY STORR The History <if Sin Oliver Thomson 18 RICHARD BACON Gangland: How the F B I Broke the Mob

HowardBlum 19 ELISA SEGRAVE Robert Maxwell As I Knew Him : A Black

Comedy Eleanor Berry 21 DENNIS SEWELL Crusade: The Untold Story of the Gulf

VHlr Rick Atkinson

NEW YORK LETTER 22 JIM HOLT

BELLES LETTRES

BOOKSELLER

PAPERBACKS

25 KINGSLEY AMIS Kipling the Poet Peter Keating 26 SusAN JEFFREYS The Anatomy <if Melancholy Vols I-III

Robert Burton (Eds) T Faulkner, N Kiessling, R Blair 27 SusAN ELKIN Christina Rossetti: Maud, Dinah Mulock

Craik: On Sisterhoods, A J.t&man's Thoughts About JIJ.i>men (Ed) Elaine Showalter 29 EMMA GUINNESS The Arabian Nights: A Companion

Robert Irwin 30 GLYN BROWN On the Side <if the Angels: The Second

Volume <if the Journals <if Eliz abeth Smart (Ed) A Van Wart 31 MICHAEL COREN Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters <if

Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir 194D-1963 (Ed) Simone de Beauvoir 34 THERESA MAYHEW

35 WENDY ROWLAND

Editor: AUBERON W AUGH Deputy Editor: LOLA BUBBOSH Business Manager & Boxwallah: ROBERT POSNER Chiif Edito rial Assistant and Deputy Manager: NANCY SLADEK

Advertising Manager: CLIFF KlMBER

General Assistant: Jo CRAVEN Designer: JACQUI McDONOUGH

Publisher: NAIM ATTALLAH Founding Editor: DR ANNE SMITH

Cover illustration by William Rushton

Issue no. 187

LITERARY REVIEW January 1994