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Vol. 20 No. 17 · 3 September 1998
Ross McKibbin
Third Way, Old Hat
Letters
Herman Reichenbach, Andrew Hillier, Eleanor Fishman, Thomas Laqueur, Michael Ward
Ben Pimlott
Crosland’s Future: Opportunity and Outcome by David Reisman. Macmillan, 237 pp., £47.50, October 1997, 0 333 65963 5
Susan Eilenberg
Wordsworth and the Victorians by Stephen Gill. Oxford, 300 pp., £25, April 1998, 0 19 811965 8 The Five-Book Prelude by William Wordsworth, edited by Duncan Wu. Blackwell, 214 pp., £40, April 1997, 0 631 20548 9
Linda Colley
The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Victorian England by Amanda Vickery. Yale, 436 pp., £19.95, May 1998, 0 300 07531 6
Ian Gilmour
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman. HarperCollins, 320 pp., £19.99, May 1998, 0 00 255668 5 Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain by K.D. Reynolds. Oxford, 268 pp., £35, April 1998, 0 19 820727 1 Lady Byron and Earl Shilton by David Herbert. Hinckley Museum, 128 pp., £7.50, March 1998, 0 9521471 3 0
Lorna Sage
All around Atlantis by Deborah Eisenberg. Granta, 232 pp., £8.99, March 1998, 1 86207 161 6
Michael Wood
Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard. Viking, 352 pp., £16.99, May 1998, 0 670 87988 6 Havana Dreams by Wendy Gimbel. Knopf, 234 pp., $24, June 1998, 0 679 43053 9
Edmund White
Pleasured by Philip Hensher. Chatto, 304 pp., £14.99, August 1998, 0 7011 6728 9
Nuruddin Farah
Country Cousins
Michael Gilsenan
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples by V.S. Naipaul. Little, Brown, 448 pp., £20, May 1998, 0 316 64361 0
Richard Jenkyns
Lucretius: ‘On the Nature of the Universe’ translated by Ronald Melville. Oxford, 275 pp., £45, November 1998, 0 19 815097 0
Simon Goldhill
Magic in the Ancient World by Fritz Graf. Harvard, 318 pp., £23.50, February 1998, 0 674 54151 0
John Kinsella
Poem: ‘Rich Soil, the Mechanism: A Farm Is Sold’
Robert Irwin
Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins. One World, 372 pp., £18.99, August 1998, 1 85168 177 9 Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran by Robin Waterfield. Allen Lane, 366 pp., £20, August 1998, 0 7139 9209 3
Andy Beckett
Scepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler. Cape, 247 pp., £9.99, April 1998, 0 224 05124 5
Peter Lipton
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organised Criticality by Per Bak. Oxford, 212 pp., £18.99, June 1997, 0 19 850164 1
Gerald Hammond
Diary: Taiwan and China
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