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Vol. 20 No. 20 · 15 October 1998
Andrew O’Hagan
Seventy Years in a Filthy Trade
Letters
Constance Blackwell, Howard Davies, John Sturrock, Thomas Jones, Stephen Mulhall, Ben Pimlott, Sarah Rigby, Misha Simic, Dick Sargent, Kenneth Collier
Jonathan Rée
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in 20th-Century America by Richard Rorty. Harvard, 107 pp., £12.50, May 1998, 9780674003118 Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Vol. III by Richard Rorty. Cambridge, 355 pp., £40, June 1998, 0 521 55347 4
Kathleen Jamie
Two Poems
James Buchan
An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati by Ali Rahnema. Tauris, 418 pp., £39.50, August 1998, 1 86064 118 0
Frank Kermode
The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton and Blake by A.D. Nuttall. Oxford, 282 pp., £40, July 1998, 9780198184621
Alexander Murray
The Conversion of Europe: From Paganism to Christianity, 371-1386 AD by Richard Fletcher. HarperCollins, 562 pp., £25, September 1997, 0 00 255203 5
Peter Ghosh
In Defence of History by Richard J. Evans. Granta, 320 pp., £8.99, October 1998, 1 86207 068 7
Helen Cooper
The Beggar and the Professor: A 16th-Century Family Saga by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago, 407 pp., £11.95, June 1998, 0 226 47324 4
Christopher Haigh
Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy. Oxford, 641 pp., £25, May 1998, 0 19 820168 0
Rogers Brubaker
Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Thomas Ertman. Cambridge, 379 pp., £45, April 1997, 0 521 48222 4
Nicholas Penny
The Tate: A History by Frances Spalding. Tate Gallery, 308 pp., £25, April 1998, 1 85437 231 9
Philip Kitcher
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behaviour by Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson. Harvard, 400 pp., £18.50, May 1998, 0 674 93046 0
John Bayley
I am well, who are you? by David Piper, edited by Anne Piper. Anne Piper, 96 pp., £12, March 1998, 0 9532123 0 0
David Blackbourn
Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-49 edited by Hans Wysling, translated by Don Reneau. California, 444 pp., £40, March 1998, 0 520 07278 2
Hari Kunzru
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson. Bloomsbury, 204 pp., £16.99, October 1998, 9780747541684 The Proud Highway: The Fear and Loathing Letters. Vol. I by Hunter S. Thompson, edited by Douglas Brinkley. Bloomsbury, 720 pp., £9.99, July 1998, 0 7475 3619 8
Richard Lloyd Parry
The Beach by Alex Garland. Penguin, 439 pp., £5.99, June 1997, 0 14 025841 8 The Tesseract by Alex Garland. Viking, 215 pp., £9.99, September 1998, 0 670 87016 1
Wendy Doniger
Field of 13 by Dick Francis. Joseph, 273 pp., £16.99, September 1998, 0 7181 4351 5
Richard Popkin
The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study by Richard Mason. Cambridge, 272 pp., £35, May 1997, 0 521 58162 1 Spinoza, Liberalism and the Question of Jewish Identity by Steven Smith. Yale, 270 pp., £21, June 1997, 0 300 06680 5
Jenny Diski
Diary: Diski at Fifty
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