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Vol. 19 No. 20 · 16 October 1997
Adam Phillips
Night Train by Martin Amis. Cape, 149 pp., £10.99, October 1997, 0 224 05018 4
Letters
Peter Ghosh, Mervyn Jones, Peter Singer, James Davidson, Nicholas Faith
August Kleinzahler
Poem: ‘52 Pick-Up’
Frank Kermode
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey. Faber, 328 pp., £15.99, September 1997, 9780571190881
Helen Vendler
Keats by Andrew Motion. Faber, 612 pp., £25, October 1997, 9780571172276
Andrew O’Hagan
Shoes, Shoes, Shoes by Andy Warhol. Bulfinch Press, 35 pp., $10.95, May 1997, 0 8212 2319 4 Style, Style, Style by Andy Warhol. Bulfinch Press, 30 pp., $10.95, May 1997, 0 8212 2320 8 Who is Andy Warhol? edited by Colin MacCabe, Mark Francis and Peter Wollen. BFI, 162 pp., £40, May 1997, 9780851705880 All Tomorrow’s Parties: Billy Name’s Photographs of Andy Warhol’s Factory by Billy Name. frieze, 144 pp., £19.95, April 1997, 0 9527414 1 5 The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night by Anthony Haden-Guest. Morrow, 404 pp., $25, April 1996, 9780688141516
John Kerrigan
Open Sky by Paul Virilio, translated by Julie Rose. Verso, 152 pp., £35, August 1997, 9781859848807
Nicholas Spice
The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike. Picador, 1774 pp., £40, November 1995, 0 330 34682 2 The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins. Picador, 1130 pp., £15, October 1997, 0 330 34942 2
Michael Wood
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor. Picador, 367 pp., £20, August 1997, 0 330 35133 8 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin, 412 pp., £7.99, May 1997, 0 14 118014 5
Benedict Anderson
Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal, translated by Soledad Lacson-Locsin. Hawaii, 451 pp., $47, June 1997, 0 8248 1917 9
R.W. Johnson
Albert Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd, translated by Benjamin Ivry. Chatto, 420 pp., £20, October 1997, 0 7011 6062 4
Neal Ascherson
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis. Oxford, 425 pp., £25, April 1997, 0 19 878070 2
David Cannadine
The Royals by Kitty Kelley. Warner, 547 pp., $27, September 1997, 0 446 51712 7
Mark Strand
Poem: ‘The View’
Paul Foot
Peter Cook: A Biography by Harry Thompson. Hodder, 516 pp., £18.99, September 1997, 0 340 64968 2
Stephen Smith
Diary: In Havana
Malise Ruthven
A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite by Said Aburish. Gollancz, 414 pp., £20, July 1997, 0 575 06275 4
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