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Vol. 20 No. 10 · 21 May 1998
M.F. Burnyeat
Art and Mimesis in Plato’s ‘Republic’
Letters
Neil Forster, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Zich, Andrew Gow, Richard Davies, Henrik Rosenmeier, Andrew Rawlinson, Keith Flett
David Bromwich
Robert Southey: A Life by Mark Storey. Oxford, 405 pp., £25, April 1997, 0 19 811246 7
R.W. Johnson
Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 by Ross McKibbin. Oxford, 562 pp., £25, March 1998, 0 19 820672 0
Ashis Nandy
Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny by Stanley Wolpert. Oxford, 546 pp., £25, January 1997, 0 19 510073 5
Amit Chaudhuri
Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra. Faber, 257 pp., £6.99, March 1998, 0 571 19208 4
Andrew Saint
Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers. Faber, 180 pp., £9.99, December 1997, 0 571 17993 2
Catherine Wilson
The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation by Clara Pinto-Correia. Chicago, 396 pp., £23.95, November 1997, 0 226 66952 1
Simon Schaffer
The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773 by Robert Schofield. Pennsylvania State, 328 pp., £35.95, January 1998, 0 271 01662 0
Terence Hawkes
The Fury of Men’s Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal by Bruce Thomas Boehrer. Pennsylvania, 238 pp., £36.50, January 1998, 0 8122 3408 1
Rebecca Mead
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher. Flamingo, 298 pp., £12.99, March 1998, 0 00 255880 7
Anna Vaux
Bad Mothers: The Politics of Blame in 20th-Century America edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky. New York, 416 pp., £16, April 1998, 0 8147 5119 9 Madonna and Child: Towards a New Politics of Motherhood by Melissa Benn. Cape, 288 pp., £12.99, January 1998, 0 224 03821 4
Justine Jordan
Little Thing by Susan Wicks. Faber, 155 pp., £9.99, May 1998, 0 571 19344 7
John Redmond
One Train by Kenneth Koch. Carcanet, 74 pp., £7.95, March 1997, 9781857542691 A World where News Travelled slowly by Lavinia Greenlaw. Faber, 53 pp., £6.99, January 1997, 0 571 19160 6 A Painted Field by Robin Robertson. Picador, 98 pp., £6.99, February 1997, 0 330 35059 5
P.N. Furbank
Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric by Mark Amory. Chatto, 274 pp., £20, March 1998, 1 85619 234 2
Stephen Smith
Diary: in Medellín
Andy Beckett
Guide by Dennis Cooper. Serpent’s Tail, 176 pp., £8.99, March 1998, 1 85242 586 5
Peter Porter
Poem: ‘Lament Addressed to the People’
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