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Vol. 19 No. 16 · 21 August 1997
Richard Gott
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson. Bantam, 814 pp., £25, April 1997, 0 593 03403 1 Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara by Jorge Castañeda, translated by Marina Castañeda. Bloomsbury, 480 pp., £20, October 1997, 0 7475 3334 2
Letters
Mark Thompson, Christopher Pilling, Gregory Blue, Paul Taylor, Robert Hampson, Antony Wood
Colin Jones
The End of the Line: A Memoir by Richard Cobb. Murray, 229 pp., £20, June 1997, 0 7195 5460 8
Simon Armitage
Poem: ‘For the Record’
Ian Hacking
Taking Bad Arguments Seriously
John Sutherland
The Car that Could: The Inside Story of GM’s Revolutionary Electric Vehicle by Michael Shnayerson. Random House, 295 pp., $25, November 1996, 9780679421054
James Wood
Anton Chekhov: A Life by Donald Rayfield. HarperCollins, 674 pp., £25, June 1997, 0 00 255503 4
Michael Hofmann
A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas, translated by Ivan Sanders and Imre Goldstein. Cape, 706 pp., £16.99, August 1997, 9780224035248
John Redmond
The Dumb House by John Burnside. Cape, 198 pp., £9.99, May 1997, 0 224 04207 6 A Normal Skin by John Burnside. Cape, 61 pp., £7, May 1997, 0 224 04286 6
John Burnside
Poem: ‘Ports’
Robert Crawford
God’s Gift to Women by Don Paterson. Faber, 64 pp., £6.99, May 1997, 9780571177622
Mark Ford
Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist by Neal Bowers. Norton, 136 pp., £12.95, March 1997, 0 393 04007 0
Lynne Mastnak
Diary: A Psychiatrist in Gorazde
Owen Bennett-Jones
Switzerland Unwrapped: Exposing the Myths by Mitya New. Tauris, 210 pp., £18.95, June 1997, 1 86064 300 0 Blood Money by Tom Bower. Macmillan, 387 pp., £16.99, March 1997, 0 333 71517 9
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