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Vol. 20 No. 7 · 2 April 1998
Stephen Sedley
Statutory Interpretation by Francis Bennion. Butterworth, 1092 pp., £187, December 1997, 0 406 02126 0 Law and Interpretation edited by Andrei Marmor. Oxford, 463 pp., £18.99, October 1997, 0 19 826487 9 Equality before the Law: Deaf People’s Access to Justice by Mary Brennan and Richard Brown. Deaf Studies Research Unit, University of Durham, 189 pp., £17.50, October 1997, 0 9531779 0 4
Letters
Mervyn Jones, Stewart Wallis, William Morrice, Brian Southam, Jenny Balfour-Paul, Masolino d’Amico, Val Lyubarsky, Giles Foden, Nicolas Walter
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett chooses four paintings for schools
Anthony Grafton
Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in Italian Renaissance by Martin Kemp. Yale, 304 pp., £25, November 1997, 0 300 07195 7
Lorna Scott Fox
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson. Faber, 764 pp., £30, November 1997, 0 571 16751 9
Stephen Knight
Poem: ‘A British Summer’
Michael Wood
Collected Poetry and Prose by Wallace Stevens, edited by Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson. Library of America, 1032 pp., $35, October 1997, 1 883011 45 0
Andrew O’Hagan
Truman Capote: In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton. Picador, 498 pp., £20, February 1998, 0 330 36871 0
Ian Hamilton
Toward the End of Time by John Updike. Hamish Hamilton, 334 pp., £16.99, February 1998, 0 241 13862 0 Golf Dreams by John Updike. Penguin, 224 pp., £6.99, February 1998, 0 14 026156 7
Misha Glenny
Misha Glenny calls for a coup in Belgrade
Thomas de Waal
Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk by Aleksandr Korzhakov. Interbook, 477 pp., £9.95, December 1997, 5 88589 039 0 Romance with the President by Vyacheslav Kostikov. Vagrius, 352 pp., £10.50, October 1997, 5 7027 0459 2
John Henderson
Dissidence and Literature under Nero: The Price of Rhetoricisation by Vasily Rudich. Routledge, 408 pp., £50, March 1997, 0 415 09501 8
T.H. Barrett
The Buddha of Brewer Street by Michael Dobbs. HarperCollins, 288 pp., £16.99, January 1998, 0 00 225412 3 The Book of Tibetan Elders: Life Stories and Wisdom from the Great Spiritual Masters of Tibet by Sandy Johnson. Constable, 282 pp., £17.95, February 1997, 0 09 476950 8 The Art of Tibet by Robert Fisher. Thames and Hudson, 224 pp., £7.95, November 1997, 0 500 20308 3 Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations by Warren Smith Jr.. Westview, 732 pp., £59.50, December 1996, 0 8133 3155 2 The Way to Freedom by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Thorsons, 181 pp., £7.99, February 1997, 0 00 220043 0 Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Thorsons, 238 pp., £8.99, February 1997, 0 00 220045 7 Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama by Mary Craig. HarperCollins, 392 pp., £17.99, May 1997, 0 00 627838 8
Elaine Showalter
Diary: My Year of Living Dangerously
Owen Flanagan
The Analects of Confucius translated by Simon Leys. Norton, 224 pp., £9.95, February 1998, 0 393 31699 8 The Analects of Confucius translated by Chichung Huang. Oxford, 224 pp., £35, October 1997, 0 19 506157 8
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