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Vol. 19 No. 8 · 24 April 1997
Stephen Holmes
The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington. Simon and Schuster, 370 pp., £16.99, February 1997, 0 684 81164 2
Letters
Neil Forster, Paul Taylor, Richard Cummings, Fred Inglis, Andrew Sugden, Alex Drace-Francis, Adam Czerniawski, John Davis, Peter Browning, Christopher Small, Courtney Ann Cooper, Alastair Niven, Elizabeth Richardson, Matthew Hughes, Robert Ferguson, Robert Ostermann, Graham McCann, P.R. Bonnett, Keith Flett
Paul Durcan
Poem: ‘The King of Cats’
John Bayley
In Memoriam: V.S. Pritchett
Michael Wood
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Harvill, 313 pp., £8.99, October 1996, 1 86046 199 9 The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Sonia Soto. Harcourt Brace, 368 pp., $23, February 1997, 0 15 100182 0
Gaby Wood
The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov, translated by Robert Chandler and Geoffrey Smith. Harvill, 168 pp., £14.99, May 1996, 1 86046 049 6
Eric Korn
Huxley: Evolution’s High Priest by Adrian Desmond. Joseph, 372 pp., £20, March 1997, 0 7181 3882 1
Anthony Appiah
Congo Journey by Redmond O’Hanlon. Hamish Hamilton, 480 pp., £18, October 1996, 0 241 12768 8
Terry Eagleton
Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference by David Harvey. Blackwell, 496 pp., £50, December 1996, 1 55786 680 5
Tom Nairn
Ghosts in the Palace
Simon Hoggart
Michael Heseltine: A Biography by Michael Crick. Hamish Hamilton, 496 pp., £20, February 1997, 0 241 13691 1
Andrew Johnston
Two Poems
Ian Hamilton
Just what are those teeth for?
Edward Luttwak
Diary: Just across the Water
E.S. Turner
The Bicycle by Pryor Dodge. Flammarion, 224 pp., £35, May 1996, 2 08 013551 1
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