Vol. 20 No. 9 · 7 May 1998

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Edward Said

Between Worlds

Letters

John Bayley, Charles Mayo, Ian Carter, Annalena McAfee, Dejan Djokic, Peter Neubauer, Brian Middleton

Douglas Oliver

Two Poems

Murray Sayle

Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond by Peter Steele. Constable, 290 pp., £18.99, March 1998, 0 09 478300 4

Jean McNicol

Jennie Lee: A Life by Patricia Hollis. Oxford, 459 pp., £25, November 1997, 0 19 821580 0

Colin Kidd

Who’s Afraid of Freemasons? The Phenomenon of Freemasonry by Alexander Piatigorsky. Harvill, 398 pp., £25, August 1997, 1 86046 029 1

Paul Smith

Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919 edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert. Cambridge, 622 pp., £60, March 1997, 0 521 57171 5

Anne Hollander

Tête à Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson edited by E.H. Gombrich. Thames and Hudson, 144 pp., £32, February 1998, 9780500542187
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Europeans edited by Jean Clair. Thames and Hudson, 231 pp., £29.95, January 1998, 0 500 28052 5

Kenneth Silverman

Alfred Kinsey: A Public/Private Life by James Jones. Norton, 937 pp., £28, October 1997, 0 393 04086 0

John Harvey

The Man of Fashion: Male Peacocks and Perfect Gentlemen by Colin McDowell. Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £29.95, October 1997, 0 500 01797 2

Joanna Kavenna

The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter. Serpent’s Tail, 264 pp., £9.99, October 1997, 1 85242 549 0

Zoë Heller

Paradise by Toni Morrison. Chatto, 300 pp., £16.99, April 1998, 0 7011 6041 1

Jeremy Harding

No One Leaves Her Place in Line

Tobias Jones

Diary: The Politics of Football

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