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Rosemary Dinnage (1928β2015) was an author and critic. Her books include The Ruffian on the Stair, One to One: Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant.
In Love with Verdi
Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism
by David R.B. Kimbell
The Man Verdi
by Frank Walker
Verdi: A Biography
by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
November 6, 2003 issue
The Crack-Up
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon
Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural History of Melancholia
by Jeffery Smith
The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva
edited by Jennifer Radden
October 4, 2001 issue
On the Road
Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses
by Ian Hacking
January 20, 2000 issue
Doris Lessing’s Double Life
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962
by Doris Lessing
November 19, 1998 issue
Delightful Tears
Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century
by Laurence Lerner
February 19, 1998 issue
The Blasted Oak Tree
Augustus John: The New Biography
by Michael Holroyd
Themes and Variations: The Drawings of Augustus John 1901-1931
with essays by Michael Holroyd and Mark Evans and Rebecca John
Portraits of Women: Gwen John & Her Forgotten Contemporaries
by Alison Thomas
March 6, 1997 issue
The Rise & Fall of a Half-Genius
The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D. Laing
by Daniel Burston
Mad to be Normal: Conversations with R.D. Laing
by Bob Mullan
November 14, 1996 issue
The Survivor
Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy
by Nina Sutton, translated by David Sharp
June 20, 1996 issue
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