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Vol. 19 No. 12 · 19 June 1997
Adewale Maja-Pearce
A Nation of Collaborators
Letters
Graham Smith, Brian Biggs, John Sutherland, Glen Newey, K. Sinclair-Loutit, Robert Creamer, Bernhard Reitz, Jürgen Schlaeger, Regi Siriwardena
Patricia Beer
Sequence: Seven Poems
Susan Eilenberg
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Rosemary Ashton. Blackwell, 480 pp., £25, December 1996, 0 631 18746 4 Coleridge: Selected Poems edited by Richard Holmes. HarperCollins, 358 pp., £20, March 1996, 0 00 255579 4 Coleridge’s Later Poetry by Morton Paley. Oxford, 147 pp., £25, June 1996, 0 19 818372 0 A Choice of Coleridge’s Verse edited by Ted Hughes. Faber, 232 pp., £7.99, March 1996, 0 571 17604 6
Lawrence Rainey
Ulysses by James Joyce, edited by Danis Rose. Picador, 739 pp., £20, June 1997, 0 330 35229 6
Keith Hopkins
Paul: A Critical Life by Jerome Murphy O’Connor. Oxford, 416 pp., £35, June 1996, 0 19 826749 5 Paul: The Mind of the Apostle by A.N. Wilson. Sinclair-Stevenson, 274 pp., £17.99, March 1997, 1 85619 542 2
Anita Brookner
Mme de Blazac and I
Margaret Anne Doody
A History of the Breast by Marilyn Yalom. HarperCollins, 331 pp., £15.99, March 1997, 0 04 440913 3
Armand Marie Leroi
Before the Backbone: Views on the Origins of the Vertebrates by Henry Gee. Chapman and Hall, 346 pp., £35, August 1996, 0 412 48300 9
Jerry Fodor
The Woman and the Ape by Peter Høeg, translated by Barbara Haveland. Harvill, 229 pp., £15.99, January 1997, 1 86046 254 5 Great Apes by Will Self. Bloomsbury, 404 pp., £14.99, May 1997, 0 7475 2987 6
Michael Gorra
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Flamingo, 340 pp., £15.99, June 1997, 0 00 225586 3
Michael Wood
The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe. Viking, 384 pp., £16.99, May 1997, 0 670 86458 7
Michael Rogin
American Original: A Life of Will Rogers by Ray Robinson. Oxford, 288 pp., $30, January 1997, 0 19 508693 7
Andrew Motion
Poem: ‘Zero’
Jane Eldridge Miller
Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke. Farrar, Straus, 494 pp., $35, July 1996, 0 374 10964 8 The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems by Mina Loy, selected and edited by Roger Conover. Farrar, Straus, 236 pp., $22, July 1996, 0 314 25872 8
Peter Campbell
Early Impressionism and the French State by Jane Mayo Roos. Cambridge, 300 pp., £45, October 1996, 0 521 55244 3 Adolph Menzel edited by Claude Keisch and Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher. Yale, 480 pp., £45, September 1996, 0 300 06954 5
Pankaj Mishra
Diary: India’s New Class
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