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Vol. 20 No. 19 · 1 October 1998
Michael Wood
Primo Levi: The Tragedy of an Optimist by Myriam Anissimov, translated by Steve Cox. Aurum, 452 pp., £25, September 1998, 1 85410 503 5
Letters
Bruce Bucknell, Christopher Price, Don Miller, James Wood, H.V.F. Winstone, Rosemary Seton, Graham Mitchell
John Tranter
Poem: ‘Trastevere’
Marina Warner
Bodies of Law by Alan Hyde. Princeton, 290 pp., £39.50, July 1997, 0 691 01229 6
John Mullan
The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel. Fourth Estate, 211 pp., £14.99, September 1998, 1 85702 884 8
Charles Simic
Three Poems
Alan Bennett
Story: ‘Nights in the Gardens of Spain’
John Sutherland
The Fight for Eyeballs
Edward Luttwak
After Monica
Geoffrey Hawthorn
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes. Little, Brown, 650 pp., £20, April 1998, 0 316 90867 3 The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw. Simon and Schuster, 457 pp., £18.99, February 1998, 0 684 82975 4
Richard Fortey
The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway Morris. Oxford, 242 pp., £18.99, March 1998, 0 19 850256 7
Andrew Motion
Poem: ‘In Memory of Ruby Yates’
Dinah Birch
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Rebel by Pam Hirsch. Chatto, 390 pp., £20, July 1998, 0 7011 6797 1
A.N. Wilson
The Warden by John Lowe. HarperCollins, 258 pp., £19.99, August 1998, 0 00 215392 0
Ian Hamilton
Osbert Sitwell by Philip Ziegler. Chatto, 461 pp., £25, May 1998, 1 85619 646 1
Ian Sansom
England, England by Julian Barnes. Cape, 272 pp., £15.99, September 1998, 0 224 05275 6
James Wood
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone. Picador, 500 pp., £16.99, October 1998, 0 330 37058 8
Nigel Wheale
The Book of Demons by Barry MacSweeney. Bloodaxe, 109 pp., £7.95, September 1997, 1 85224 414 3 Poems 1980-94 by John Kinsella. Bloodaxe, 352 pp., £9.95, April 1999, 1 85224 453 4 The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony by John Kinsella. Arc, 108 pp., £7.95, January 1997, 1 900072 12 2 The Kangaroo Farm by Martin Harrison. Paper Bark, 79 pp., £8.95, May 1998, 0 9586482 4 7
Michael Gilsenan
Diary: in Yemen
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