Contributors

Eric Boman, the photographer, is working on a series of still lifes. His photographs have appeared in Vogue, British Vogue, and French Vogue.

Peter J. Boyer is writing a book for Random House.

Ben Brantley reports regularly from New York, Los Angeles, and Europe.

Richard M. Clurman spent more than twenty years at Time Inc. as a writer, reporter, chief of worldwide Time-Life correspondents, and senior editorial executive. He is the author of To the End of Time: The Seduction and Conquest of a Media Empire, just out from Simon & Schuster.

Bob Colacello is currently covering the European social and cultural scene for V.F. He is the author of Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (HarperPerennial).

Fred Goodman is writing a book about the history of the rock 'n' roll business for Times Books.

Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, formerly an editor at The New York Times, is writing a book on the Philippines for W. W. Norton. "After reporting on coups and massacres in the Philippines," she says of her piece this month, "I thought nothing in that country could surprise me, but the level of cynicism and dirt in their presidential campaign is startling. The presence of Imelda alone has heated up the passions. Imelda is much like her nation, often maddening and bizarre, yet sometimes touching."

Gail Sheehy's latest book, The Silent Passage: Menopause, originating with her October 1991 V.F. piece, is just out from Random House.

Michael Shnayerson is the author of Irwin Shaw: A Biography (Putnam). He is a consulting editor of Conde Nast Traveler.

Mark Stevens frequently covers art for V.F. He is at work on a biography of Willem de Kooning.

Auberon Waugh, editor of The Literary Review in London, is a columnist for the London Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, and The Oldie, which he helped to found. His recent autobiography, Will This Do?, is out in England.

James Wolcott has appeared on the PBS series Edge and the BBC's Late Show. He has written for Harper's, The New Republic, and the London Observer.