Vol. 18 No. 23 · 28 November 1996

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Peter Campbell

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Vol. 18 No. 23 · 28 November 1996

Alan Bennett

Story: ‘The Clothes They Stood Up In’

Letters

Alex Callinicos, John Bayley, Victor Smart, John Rees, Neil Rennie, L.C. Laming, David Kuhrt, John Simpson

Alan Ross

Three Poems

August Kleinzahler

Poem: ‘Tanka-Toys: A Memoir’

Stephen Sedley

The Access to Justice: Final Report by Lord Woolf. HMSO, 370 pp., £19.95, July 1996, 0 11 380099 1
The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology by Richard Susskind. Oxford, 309 pp., £19.99, July 1996, 0 19 826007 5

Peter Ghosh

Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990 by Peter Clarke. Allen Lane, 454 pp., £25, October 1996, 0 7139 9071 6

Ian Gilmour

Diplomacy and Disillusion at the Court of Margaret Thatcher by George Urban. Tauris, 206 pp., £19.95, September 1996, 1 86064 084 2

Edward Luttwak

Cold War Postscript

Jerry Fodor

The Prehistory of the Mind by Steven Mithen. Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., £16.95, October 1996, 0 500 05081 3

John Bayley

Emily Tennyson by Ann Thwaite. Faber, 716 pp., £25, October 1996, 0 571 96554 7

John Redmond

Expanded Universes by Christopher Reid. Faber, 55 pp., £6.99, September 1996, 9780571179244

Mark Polizzotti

The Collected Writings by Laure, translated by Jeanine Herman. City Lights, 314 pp., $13.95, August 1995, 0 87286 293 3

Conor Gearty

Diary: On Michael Collins

Harry Mathews

The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation and the Self in Modern Culture by Jerrold Seigel. California, 291 pp., £28, September 1996, 0 520 20038 1

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