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Vol. 20 No. 21 · 29 October 1998
Jerry Fodor
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson. Little, Brown, 374 pp., £18.99, September 1998, 0 316 64569 9
Letters
Neil Forster, William Lamont, Tom Lansburg, Adrian Dannatt, Alan Benfield, L.J. Olivier, Alison Macleod, V.G. Kiernan, George Schlesinger, Nick Bozanic, Chase Madar, Michael and Denise Hope, Ross Pratt, Ian Wylie, Keith Flett
John Mullan
Jonathan Swift by Victoria Glendinning. Hutchinson, 324 pp., £20, September 1998, 0 09 179196 0
Stephen Holmes
The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Verso, 82 pp., £8, April 1998, 1 85984 898 2
John Burnside
Two Poems
Michael Ignatieff
Liberalism and Its Discontents by Alan Brinkley. Harvard, 372 pp., £18.50, May 1998, 0 674 53017 9
Ian Hamilton
The Complete Works of George Orwell edited by Peter Davidson. Secker, £750, July 1998, 0 436 20377 4
John Barrell
Theatres of Memory. Vol. II. Island Stories: Unravelling Britain by Raphael Samuel, edited by Alison Light. Verso, 391 pp., £20, June 1998, 1 85984 965 2
Charles van Onselen
Dead but Not Quite Buried
Justine Jordan
Pieces of Light by Adam Thorpe. Cape, 478 pp., £16.99, August 1998, 0 224 03988 1
Christopher Prendergast
An Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 by Franco Moretti. Verso, 206 pp., £16, August 1998, 1 85984 883 4
Peter Campbell
Pieter De Hooch 1629-84 by Peter Sutton. Yale, 183 pp., £30, September 1998, 0 300 07757 2 On Reflection by Jonathan Miller. National Gallery, 224 pp., £25, September 1998, 1 85709 236 8
E.S. Turner
Sugar-Plums and Sherbet: A Prehistory of Sweets by Laura Mason. Prospect, 250 pp., £20, June 1998, 0 907325 83 1
Tom Vanderbilt
No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers edited by Andrew Ross. Verso, 256 pp., £14, September 1997, 1 85984 172 4
John Upton
Diary: No bail for Mr X
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