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Vol. 19 No. 2 · 23 January 1997
Jacqueline Rose
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee. Chatto, 722 pp., £20, September 1996, 0 7011 6507 3
Letters
Mark Harris, Barbara Smoker, Irving Louis Horowitz, Grahame White, Harold Teichman, Haig of Bemersyde, D.J. Walsh, Montagu Bream, Douglas Johnson, Ira Katznelson, Mary Lefkowitz, Philip Hoy, Nicolas Walter, Anthony Quinton, Martin Norden, Simon Currie, Tim Sanders, Gordon Kerry, Christopher Hitchens, Keith Flett
R.W. Johnson
Enoch Powell by Robert Shepherd. Hutchinson, 564 pp., £25, October 1996, 0 09 179208 8
Mary Beard
Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship edited by J.P. Hallett and T. van Nortwick. Routledge, 196 pp., £42.50, November 1996, 0 415 14284 9
Ruth Padel
Putting the Words into Women’s Mouths
James Davidson
Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250 by Simon Swain. Oxford, 499 pp., £50, April 1996, 0 19 814772 4
John Burnside
Two Poems
Peter Pulzer
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Little, Brown, 622 pp., £20, March 1996, 0 316 87942 8
Jonathan Parry
Disraeli: A Brief Life by Paul Smith. Cambridge, 246 pp., £25, September 1996, 0 521 38150 9
Donald MacKenzie
Wasting Assets
Iain Sinclair
Mr Nice: An Autobiography by Howard Marks. Secker, 466 pp., £16.99, September 1996, 0 436 20305 7 Pulp Election: The Booker Prize Fix by Carmen St Keeldare. Bluedove, 225 pp., £12.99, September 1996, 0 9528298 0 0
Lorna Scott Fox
Diary: Reality in the Aguascalientes
Hilary Mantel
Flickerbook by Leila Berg. Granta, 256 pp., £15.99, January 1997, 1 86207 004 0
Walter McDonald
Poem: ‘Uncle Earl’s Wind River Ranch’
Paul Groves
Poem: ‘Applied Mathematics’
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