Vol. 20 No. 6 · 19 March 1998

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Sherry Turkle

Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory by Ian Hacking. Princeton, 346 pp., £12.95, May 1998, 9780691059082

Letters

Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Paul Seabright, Michael Meadmore, Lorne Loxterkamp, Christopher Hitchens

John Sutherland

A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold by Ian Hamilton. Bloomsbury, 241 pp., £17.99, March 1998, 0 7475 3671 6

Sandra Gilbert

D.H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-30 by David Ellis. Cambridge, 814 pp., £25, January 1998, 0 521 25421 3

Penelope Fitzgerald

Harlequin in Whitehall: A Life of Humbert Wolfe by Philip Bagguley. Nyala, 439 pp., £24.50, May 1997, 0 9529376 0 3

Jeremy Waldron

Seeing a Colour-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race by Patricia Williams. Virago, 72 pp., £5.99, April 1997, 1 86049 365 3
Colour Conscious: The Political Morality of Race by Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann. Princeton, 200 pp., £11.95, May 1998, 0 691 05909 8
Race: The History of an Idea in the West by Ivan Hannaford. Johns Hopkins, 464 pp., £49.50, June 1996, 0 8018 5222 6

Mark Ford

Two Poems

Olivier Todd

The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War (1954-62) by Martin Evans. Berg, 250 pp., £34.99, November 1997, 9781859739273

Timothy Garton Ash

Accusatory Practices: Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989 edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Gellately. Chicago, 231 pp., $27.95, September 1997, 0 226 25273 6

Hilary Mantel

The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden. Faber, 330 pp., £9.99, March 1998, 0 571 17916 9

Alexander Star

Purple America by Rick Moody. Flamingo, 298 pp., £16.99, March 1998, 0 00 225687 8

Alexander Murray

The Autumn of the Middle Ages by John Huizinga, translated by Rodney Payton. Chicago, 560 pp., £15.95, December 1997, 0 226 35994 8

Frank Kermode

The Footnote: A Curious History by Anthony Grafton. Faber, 241 pp., £12.99, December 1997, 0 571 17668 2

Peter Campbell

Bonnard by Timothy Hyman. Thames and Hudson, 224 pp., £7.95, February 1998, 0 500 20310 5
Bonnard by Sarah Whitfield and John Elderfield. Tate Gallery, 272 pp., £35, June 1998, 1 85437 243 2

Iain Sinclair

Vital Signs by Ian Penman. Serpent’s Tail, 374 pp., £10.99, February 1998, 1 85242 523 7

Wendy Doniger

Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery of Identity by Lawrence Wright. Weidenfeld, 128 pp., £14.99, November 1997, 0 297 81976 3

Ian Gilmour

Diary: the Terminal 5 Enquiry

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