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CONTENTS THIS MONTH 'S PUL PIT is w ritte n by Al exa nd e r Waugh, th e auth o r o f Tim e a nd God. H e is c urr e ntl y w orkin g on a hi sto ry o f th e fa ther a nd son r e lation s hip ove r fo ur gen erations of his family . DONALD RAYFIELD is the author of Anton C hekho": A Life (1997) and U nd erstanding Chekh o" (1999) . He has just completed a study, Stali11 and th e Ha11gmen. ELAI NE SH OWALTER is Profess or of En g li sh at Prince ton. H e r mo s t r ece nt book , !tn~e nting H e rse lf: C laiming a Femir1i s t lt~t e ll ec tlla! H eritage , is published by Pi cador. jUSTIN MAROZZI obse rv ed Filipino ladyboys at close qu arte rs w hen he was th e FT s Manila correspo nd ent in th e lat e Nin e ti es. H e is n ow writin g a hi s tor y of Tam e rl a ne fo r H arperCollins. P ETE R WA SHINGT ON is G e n e ral Editor of Everyman's Library. TIM RI CE is thi s year 's Ca m e ron M ac kinto sh Vi siting Professo r of C ont e mpor a r y Th ea tr e a t St C ath erin e's C oll ege , O xfo rd. H e is afraid of fl yin g. FR AN K M c LYNN 's m os t r ece nt bo ok , Wago ns W es t, is publi shed by Jonathan C ap e . j ONATHAN KEATES is a biograph er o f Stendhal. H e is workin g on a study of th e Venerian revolution o f 1848 . A C GRAY LI NG 's lates t boo k , Wh at Is G ood ' Th e S earch fo r th e Best Way to Li"e, is published by W eid enfeld & Ni co lson this month. MARTYN B EDFORD is a nove list and lec ture r in c reati ve w ritin g a t th e Uni versi ty of M anchester. PULPIT ART & MUSIC BIOGRAPHY TERROR SHORT STORY FOREIGN PARTS 1 ALEXANDER. WAUGH 4 CHARLES SAUMAR.EZ SMITH Jo shua R eynolds : Th e Life 7 and Tim es of th e First Pres id ent of the Royal Academy Ia n Mclntyre 5 PATR.I C K O'CoNNOR. Puccini: A Biography Mary Jane P h i l l ips - Matz Edgard Varese Al a n Clayson SIMON HEFFER. Prokofiev: From Russia to the West 1891 1935 David Nice 9 PETER WA SHINGTON Siegfri ed Sa ss oon: Th e j ourney from th e Tren ches - A Biography (1918-196 7) Jean Moorcroft Wil s on 11 FRANK M CLYNN Searching for John Ford: A Life Joseph McBrid e 13 PHILIP OAKE S Fear and Loathing in Fit z rovia: The Bi z arr e Life of Writer, A ctor , Soho Dandy Julian Maclar en- Ross Paul Wi l l etts 15 JONATHAN K EATES La st of th e Dandi es : The Scandalou s Life and E scapad es of Count d 'Orsay Nick Fou l kes 16 JONATHAN MIR. SKY Four Si sters of Hofei Annping Chin 18 J W M THOMPSON Elu s iv e Rothsc hi ld: The Life of Vi ctor , Third Baron Kenneth Rose 19 MI C HAEL PROWS£ A I Qa eda attd What It Mean s to Be Mod ern John Gray 20 RI CHARD OVER. Y Stalin 's Last Critn e : The Do ctors' Plot Jonath a n Brent and Vladimir P Naumov 22 WILLIAM TREVOR. 27 GR.AHAM STEWAR.T Cha s ing Churchill: The Trav els of Winston Churchill Celia Sandys 28 DENNI S SEWELL Reefer Madn ess Eric Schl osser 30 JU STIN MAR.OZ Z I The Third Sex : Katho ey- Thailand 's Ladyboys Richard Totman 3 1 CHR.I STO PH ER. ONDAATJE Count de Mauny: Fri end of Royalty S Chomet LITERARY REVIEW May 2003 Editor: NANCY SLADEK Deputy Editor: CHARLIE CAMPB ELL General A ss istant: ALAN RAFFERTY Contributir·1g Editor: SEBASTLAN SHAKES PEARE Business Manager: ROBERT P OSNER. Advertising Martager: TERRY FINNEGAN Founding Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Founding Fath er: AUBERON WAUGH Cover illu stration by Chris Riddell Issue no. 299
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MAY 2003 BELLES LETTRES MEMOIRS GENERAL 33 34 36 DONALD RAYFIELD Reading Chekhov: A Critical journey Janet Malco l m J ESSICA MANN The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers: 5 Volumes (Ed) Barbara Reyno l ds SEBAST IAN SHAKESPEARE The Lesson of the Master: On Barges and His Work Norman Thomas d i Giovanni 37 38 39 40 STEPHEN AMIDON Kingdom of Fear Hunter S Thompson ANTHONY DANIELS A Mi ll ion Little Pieces James Frey TERESA WAUGH Giving Up the Ghost Hilary Mantel ALAN RAFFER TY Babycham Night Philip Norman A Spoi l t Boy Frederic Raphae l The Speck led People Hugo Hamil ton Family Secrets Derek Malcolm Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs 41 42 44 45 46 PAUL J OHNSON The Bible in English David Danie ll SARA WHEELER Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination Robert Macfarlane A C GRAYLING A Devil's Chaplain Richard Dawk i ns DNA: The Secret of Life J ames D Watson TIM RICE Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 Patrick Bishop THOMAS HODGKINSON Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde (Ed) Merl i n Ho ll and FICTION 49 50 51 52 54 55 56 ELAINE SHOW ALTER Seek My Face John Updike PAME LA N ORR IS Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood J OHN DUGDALE Cosmopolis Don DeLillo MARTYN BEDFORD The North of England Home Service Gordon Burn FRANCIS KING The Colour Rose Trema i n WILLIAM PALMERjazz, Etc. J ohn Murray SOPHIA TOPLEY This I s Not a Novel J enn i fer Johnston PAPERBACKS AUDIOBOOK LETTERS SILENCED VOICES CRIME POETRY COMPETITION LR CROSSWORD LRBOOKSHOP 57 57 58 59 60 62 12 64 SUSAN CROSLAND S IOBHAN Dowo PH ILIP 0AKES CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH lS Director of the National Gallery. SARA WHEELER's biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard , author of the po lar classic The Worst joumey in the World, is published by Jonathan Cape. MICHAEL PROWSE writes a column for the Financial Times. He is writing a book about markets and individualism, which will be published by Atlantic. RICHARD OVER Y is Professor of Modern History at King's College, London. His most recent book, lnterrogati011s: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945, is published by Alien Lane . He is currently writing a comparison between the Hitler ·and Stalin dictatorship. GR.AHAM STEWART is the author of Buryirtg Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party (Phoenix). PAMELA NORRIS is writing a history of romantic love. STEPHEN AMIDON has just survived the worst winter in recent Western Massachusetts history, using his seclusion to finish his latest novel , wh ich will be published next year. JESS ICA MANN's most recent novel, The Voice from the Grave, is published by Constable . W ILLIAM PALMER. is the author of five novels , the latest being The Pardort of Sairtt Anrte Qonathan Cape). He is working on a trilogy of novels set in the 1950s. PAUL jOHNSON's most recent book, Napoleon, 1s pub l ished by" Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published rnonthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F OLW Tel: 020 7437 9392 Fax: 020 7734 18441SSN 0144 4360 ©All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, FREEPOST LON 17963 London SW20 8YY Tel: 020 8545 2755 Fax: 020 8545 2756. UK Subscription Rate £32, Europe £39, rest of the world air mail only £54 (US$84) USA Airspeed subscription price is £39 (US$60) for per annum. Periodical pre-paid at Charnp lain NY (USPS 004218). All advertising enquiries to : Robert Posner, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F OLW Tel : 020 7437 9392 Printed by Simpson Drewett & Co Ltd, 70 Sheen Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1UF Tel: 020 8940 7441 Fax: 020 8948 8749 Distributed to newsagents worldwide by COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Rd, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 7QX Tel: 01895 433 800 Distributed to bookshops by Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 Tel: 020 8986 4854 email: li trev@di rcon . eo. uk LITERARY REVIEW May 2003

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CONTENTS

THIS MONTH 'S PUL PIT is w ritte n by Al exa nd e r Waugh, th e auth o r o f Tim e a nd God. H e is c urr e ntl y w orkin g on a hi sto ry o f th e fa ther a nd son r e lation s hip ove r fo ur gen erations of his family .

DONALD RAYFIELD is the author of Anton C hekho": A Life (1997) and U nd erstanding Chekh o" (1999) . He has just completed a study, Stali11 and th e Ha11gmen.

ELAI NE SH OWALTER is Profess or of En g li sh at Prince ton. H e r mo s t r ece nt book , !tn~e nting H e rse lf: C laiming a Femir1i s t lt~t e ll ec tlla! H eritage , is published by Pi cador.

jUSTIN MAROZZI obse rv ed Filipino ladyboys at close qu arte rs w hen he was th e FT s Manila correspo nd ent in th e lat e Nin e ti es. H e is n ow writin g a hi s tor y of Tam e rl a ne fo r H arperCollins.

P ETE R WA SHINGT ON is G e n e ral Editor of Everyman's Library.

TIM RI CE is thi s year 's Ca m e ron M ac kinto sh Vi siting Professo r of C ont e mpor a r y Th ea tr e a t St C ath erin e's C oll ege , O xfo rd. H e is afraid of fl yin g.

FR AN K M c LYNN 's m os t r ece nt bo ok , Wago ns W es t, is publi shed by Jonathan C ap e .

j ONATHAN KEATES is a biograph er o f Stendhal. H e is workin g on a study of th e Venerian revolution o f 1848 .

A C GRAY LI NG 's lates t boo k , Wh at Is G ood ' Th e S earch fo r th e Best Way to Li"e, is published by W eid enfeld & Ni co lson this month.

MARTYN B EDFORD is a nove list and lec ture r in c reati ve w ritin g a t th e Uni versi ty of M anchester.

PULPIT

ART & MUSIC

BIOGRAPHY

TERROR

SHORT STORY

FOREIGN PARTS

1 ALEXANDER. WAUGH

4 CHARLES SAUMAR.EZ SMITH Jo shua R eynolds : Th e Life

7

and Tim es of th e First Pres id ent of the Royal Academy Ia n Mclntyre 5

PATR.I C K O'CoNNOR. Puccini: A Biography Mary Jane P h i l l ips - Matz Edgard Varese Al a n Clayson SIMON HEFFER. Prokofiev: From Russia to the West 1891 1935 David Nice

9 PETER WA SHINGTON Siegfri ed Sa ss oon: Th e j ourney from th e Tren ches - A Biography (1918-196 7) Jean Moorcroft Wil s on

11 FRANK M CLYNN Searching for John Ford: A Life Joseph

McBrid e 13 PHILIP OAKE S Fear and Loathing in Fit z rovia: The

Bi z arr e Life of Writer, A ctor , Soho Dandy Julian Maclar en- Ross Paul Wi l l etts 15 JONATHAN K EATES La st of th e Dandi es : The Scandalou s

Life and E scapad es of Count d 'Orsay Nick Fou l kes 16 JONATHAN MIR. SKY Four Si sters of Hofei Annping Chin 18 J W M THOMPSON Elu s iv e Rothsc hi ld: The Life of Vi ctor ,

Third Baron Kenneth Rose

19 MI C HAEL PROWS£ A I Qa eda attd What It Mean s to Be

Mod ern John Gray 20 RI CHARD OVER. Y Stalin 's Last Critn e : The Do ctors' Plot

Jonath a n Brent and Vladimir P Naumov

22 WILLIAM TREVOR.

27 GR.AHAM STEWAR.T Cha s ing Churchill: The Trav els of

Winston Churchill Celia Sandys 28 DENNI S SEWELL Reefer Madn ess Eric Schl osser 30 JU STIN MAR.OZ Z I The Third Sex : Katho ey- Thailand 's

Ladyboys Richard Totman 3 1 CHR.I STO PH ER. ONDAATJE Count de Mauny: Fri end of

Royalty S Chomet

LITERARY REVIEW May 2003

Editor: NANCY SLADEK Deputy Editor: CHARLIE CAMPB ELL General A ss istant: ALAN RAFFERTY Contributir·1g Editor: SEBASTLAN SHAKES PEARE

Business Manager: ROBERT P OSNER. Advertising Martager: TERRY FINNEGAN

Founding Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Founding Fath er: AUBERON WAUGH

Cover illu stration by Chris Riddell

Issue no. 299

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