Contents · Vol. 18 No. 16 · 22 August 1996

Vol. 18 No. 16 · 22 August 1996

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Martha Gellhorn

Mean Streets of Salvador

Letters

Josef Elfenbein, Merryn Williams, Mari Shullaw, Nicolas Tredell, Keith Flett, Allan Young, Roger House, Scott Thornbury, James Davidson, D.M. Roskies

Michael Wood

Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke by Ralph Freedman
Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and Edward Snow
Rilke’s ‘Duino Elegies’: Cambridge Readings edited by Roger Paulin and Peter Hutchinson

Edmund White

Selected Poems by James Merrill

Jeremy Waldron

Machiavelli’s Virtue by Harvey Mansfield

Geoffrey Best

Fairness in International Law and Institutions by Thomas Franck

Nicholas Xenos

Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey by Isabel Fonseca

Robin Robertson

Poem: ‘A Sequence from ‘Camera Obscura’

Basil Davidson

Goodbye to Some of That

E.S. Turner

The Dictionary of National Biography 1986-1990 edited by C.S. Nicholls

John Sturrock

Bradman by Charles Williams

Iain Sinclair

A Perfect Execution by Tim Binding

John Redmond

Can You Hear, Bird by John Ashbery
The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems by Jorie Graham
Selected Poems by Barbara Guest
Selected Poems 1976-1996 by George Szirtes
Adam’s Dream by Peter McDonald

P.N. Furbank

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Allen Mandelbaum
The Inferno of Dante. A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky, illustrated by Michael Mazur
Dante’s Hell translated by Steve Ellis

Ian Hamilton

Diary: I ♥ Concordances

Anthony Grafton

The Fortunes of ‘The Courtier’: The European Reception of Castiglione’s ‘Cortegiano’ by Peter Burke

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