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Contents

Vol. 23 No. 1   ·   4 January 2001

Issues of Truth and Invention

Colm Tóibín on Francis Stuart’s wartime broadcasts

  • The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart edited by Brendan Barrington

Letters

Naomi Shepherd, J. Spencer, Charles Glass, Elizabeth Young, R.W. Johnson, Gavin Lewis, Barbara Taylor, John A. Davis, Parina Douzina Stiakaki, Brian Pringle, John Widdop, C.K. Stead, Lawrence Stokes, Keith Flett, Martha Nell Smith, Ron Haggart

Joseph Roth

Bohumil Hrabal

James Wood: the life, times, letters and politics of Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal

  • Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim
  • Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim
  • I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Paul Wilson
  • Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Edith Partiger
  • Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by James Naughton

Dan Jacobson

Peter Mair

  • The Heart Beats on the Left by Oskar Lafontaine, translated by Ronald Taylor

Linda Nochlin

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Bo yakasha.

Jeremy Harding

  • Lennon Remembers by Jann Wenner

Zoë Heller

  • At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard
  • Dream Catcher by Margaret Salinger

Barbara Everett

At the Royal Academy

Peter Campbell: Turner’s watercolours

Patrick Collinson

  • Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England

James Francken

Fade to Greige

Elaine Showalter on Georgio Armani

  • A Dedicated Follower of Fashion by Holly Brubach
  • Fashion Today by Colin McDowell
  • Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender and Society in Clothing by Diana Crane
  • Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries by Avril Hart and Susan North
  • Don We Now Our Gay Appalrel: Gay Men’s Dress in the 20th Century by Shuan Cole
  • The Gallery of Fashion by Aileen Ribeiro
  • Giorgio Armani by Germano Celant and Harold Koda

John Upton

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Xmas tree in forest

Featured articles

Issues of Truth and Invention
Colm Tóibín on Francis Stuart’s wartime broadcasts

Bohumil Hrabal
James Wood: the life, times, letters and politics of Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal

Fade to Greige
Elaine Showalter on Georgio Armani

At the Royal Academy
Peter Campbell: Turner’s watercolours

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Bo yakasha.