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Contents

Vol. 22 No. 3   ·   3 February 2000

Data Guy

Andrew Berry: Almost like a Whale by Steve Jones

  • Almost like a Whale: ‘The Origin of Species’ Updated by Steve Jones

Bow. Wow

James Wolcott on Gore Vidal

  • Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan

Jeremy Harding: At The Rich Man’s Gate

Letters

Bernard Bergonzi, David Goldberg, William Rubinstein, Paul Drabkin, Rob Ferguson, Hari Kunzru, Amit Chaudhuri, Peter Wollen, David George, Christopher Hitchens

Leah Price

  • The Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Christopher Ricks
  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume One edited by M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt
  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume Two edited by M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt
  • The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume One edited by David Damrosch
  • The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume Two edited by David Damrosch
  • Night & Horses & The Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature edited by Robert Irwin
  • News that Stays News: The 20th Century in Poems edited by Simon Rae
  • Time’s Tidings: Greeting the 21st Century by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the 20th Century in Poetry edited by Peter Forbes

Jenny Diski

  • Vertigo by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

David Blackbourn

  • Einstein's German World by Fritz Stern

John Vincent

  • An Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalism by Conrad Russell

Robert Irwin

  • The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand

August Kleinzahler

Paul Laity

Contributors

Featured articles

Data Guy
Andrew Berry: Almost like a Whale by Steve Jones

Bow. Wow
James Wolcott on Gore Vidal