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Vol. 20 No. 3 · 5 February 1998
Michael Wood
Underworld by Don DeLillo. Picador, 832 pp., £10, February 1998, 0 330 36995 4
Letters
Adrian Bowyer, Patsy Waller, John Griffith, Ed Horton, Alfred Baker, Penelope Curtis, David Turner, Scott Herrick, Miguel Orio, Sue Rickard, Paul Bland
Glen Newey
The Imaginary Institution of Society by Cornelius Castoriadis. Polity, 418 pp., £14.95, May 1997, 0 7456 1950 9 Les Carrefours de Labyrinthe: Fait et a faire by Cornelius Castoriadis. Seuil, 281 pp., frs 139, February 1997, 2 02 029909 7 The Castoriadis Reader edited by David Ames Curtis. Blackwell, 470 pp., £50, May 1997, 1 55786 703 8
Peter Wollen
Death (and Life) of the Author
Helen Vendler
Collected Poems by Amy Clampitt. Faber, 496 pp., £25, May 1998, 0 571 19349 8
Blair Worden
Liberty before Liberalism by Quentin Skinner. Cambridge, 137 pp., £19.99, November 1997, 0 521 63206 4
Andrew Motion
Notes on Fishing by Sergei Timmofeevich Aksakov, translated by Thomas Hodge. Northwestern, 230 pp., $30, September 1997, 9780810113664
Charles van Onselen
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee. Secker, 171 pp., £12.99, September 1997, 0 436 20448 7
Hugh Maxton
Bloody Sunday
Melissa Benn
Different for Girls: How Culture Creates Women by Joan Smith. Chatto, 176 pp., £10.99, September 1997, 9780701165123 The New Feminism by Natasha Walter. Little, Brown, 278 pp., £17.50, January 1998, 0 316 88234 8 A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States by Sheila Rowbotham. Penguin, 752 pp., £20, June 1997, 0 670 87420 5
Derek Parfit
Why anything? Why this?
John Ashbery
Poem: ‘The Village of Sleep’
Stephen Smith
Diary: a 17-year-old murder victim
Matthew Sweet
The Wilde Album by Merlin Holland. Fourth Estate, 192 pp., £12.99, October 1997, 1 85702 782 5 Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Art by Julia Prewitt Brown. Virginia, 157 pp., $30, September 1997, 9780813917283 The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde edited by Peter Raby. Cambridge, 307 pp., £37.50, October 1997, 9780521474719 Wilde The Novel by Stefan Rudnicki. Orion, 215 pp., £5.99, October 1997, 0 7528 1160 6 Oscar Wilde by Frank Harris. Robinson, 358 pp., £7.99, October 1997, 1 85487 126 9 Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry. Hutchinson, 343 pp., £16.99, October 1997, 0 09 180161 3 Nothing … except My Genius by Oscar Wilde. Penguin, 82 pp., £2.99, October 1997, 0 14 043693 6
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