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Vol. 19 No. 14 · 17 July 1997
Edward Said
Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and the Tragedy of Genius by Peter Ostwald. Norton, 368 pp., $29.95, May 1997, 0 393 04077 1 When the Music Stops: Managers, Maestros and the Corporate Murder of Classical Music by Norman Lebrecht. Simon and Schuster, 400 pp., £7.99, July 1997, 0 671 01025 5
Letters
Ron Haggart, James Barrett, J.R. Evenhuis, Colin Tucker, John Wadham, John Kerrigan, Graham McCann, Jeremy Bernstein, Susan Bielstein
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘Late Autumn Afternoons’
Adam Phillips
A Centenary Pessoa edited by Eugénio Lisboa and L.C. Taylor. Carcanet, 335 pp., £25, May 1995, 9780856359361 The Keeper of Sheep by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Edwin Honig and Susan Brown. Sheep Meadow, 135 pp., $12.95, September 1997, 1 878818 45 7 The Book of Disquietude by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith. Carcanet, 323 pp., £9.95, January 1997, 1 85754 301 7
Ian Sansom
W.H. Auden: Prose 1926-38, Essays and Reviews and Travel Books in Prose and Verse edited by Edward Mendelson. Faber, 836 pp., £40, March 1997, 0 571 17899 5
Misha Glenny
Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nation hood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990 by Anastasia Karakasidou. Chicago, 264 pp., $38, June 1997, 0 226 42493 6
Alexander Nehamas
Dinner with Persephone by Patricia Storace. Granta, 398 pp., £17.99, February 1997, 1 86207 033 4
Fred Halliday
Family Business
David Blackbourn
Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987 by Richard J. Evans. Oxford, 1014 pp., £55, March 1996, 0 19 821968 7
Gordon A. Craig
Ernst Jünger and Germany: Into the Abyss, 1914-45 by Thomas Nevin. Constable, 280 pp., £20, January 1997, 0 09 474560 9
Glyn Maxwell
Two Poems
Michael Ignatieff
Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture by Elaine Showalter. Picador, 244 pp., £16.99, June 1997, 0 330 34670 9
Charles Wheeler
Personal History by Katharine Graham. Weidenfeld, 642 pp., £25, May 1997, 9780297819646
Jenny Turner
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. Cape, 773 pp., £16.99, May 1997, 9780224050012
John Sutherland
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey. Oxford, 265 pp., £4.99, May 1995, 0 19 282443 0 The Man of the Forest: The Authorised Version by Zane Grey. Nebraska, 383 pp., $15, September 1996, 0 8032 7062 3 The Thundering Herd: The Authorised Version by Zane Grey. Nebraska, 400 pp., $16, September 1996, 0 8032 7065 8
David Craig
John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings edited by Terry Gifford. Baton Wicks, 912 pp., £20, November 1996, 1 898573 07 7
R.W. Johnson
Diary: I was William Hague’s Tutor
Kenneth Silverman
Accidentally, on Purpose: The Making of a Personal Injury Underworld in America by Ken Dornstein. Macmillan, 452 pp., £19.50, December 1996, 9780333674574
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