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Vol. 21 No. 3 · 4 February 1999
Thomas Nagel
What We Owe to Each Other by T.M. Scanlon. Harvard, 480 pp., £21.95, February 1999, 0 674 95089 5
Letters
Peter Coghill, John Sutherland, Christian Wolmar, Keith Kyle, Penelope Fitzgerald, Richard Salvucci, Tom O’Hagan, C.S. Calude, Stuart Hood, Mat Pires, Stuart Silverman
John Tranter
Poem: ‘Epitaphs’
Michael Wood
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley. Allen Lane, 565 pp., £20, January 1999, 0 14 028680 2
Alexander Star
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth. Cape, 323 pp., £16.99, October 1998, 0 224 05258 6
Katharine Weber
Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder by Melanie Thernstrom. Virago, 219 pp., £9.99, November 1998, 9781860494963
Jerry Fodor
If a Lion Could Talk: How Animals Think by Stephen Budiansky. Weidenfeld, 219 pp., £20, December 1998, 0 297 81932 1
Rosemary Dinnage
Mesmerised: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain by Alison Winter. Chicago, 464 pp., £23.95, December 1998, 0 226 90219 6
David Bromwich
The Origins of Postmodernity by Perry Anderson. Verso, 143 pp., £11, September 1998, 1 85984 222 4 The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-98 by Fredric Jameson. Verso, 206 pp., £11, September 1998, 1 85984 182 1
Andrew Saint
London: A History by Francis Sheppard. Oxford, 442 pp., £25, November 1998, 0 19 822922 4 London: More by Fortune than Design by Michael Hebbert. Wiley, 50 pp., £17.99, April 1998, 0 471 97399 8
Rosemary Hill
Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow. Faber, 794 pp., £14.99, September 1998, 0 571 19376 5
Eric Foner
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin. Harvard, 512 pp., £18.50, October 1998, 0 674 81092 9 The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800 by Robin Blackburn. Verso, 602 pp., £15, April 1998, 1 85984 890 7
Sukhdev Sandhu
Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multiracial Britain by Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips. HarperCollins, 422 pp., £16.99, May 1998, 0 00 255909 9
Sheila Fitzpatrick
A History of 20th-Century Russia by Robert Service. Allen Lane, 654 pp., £25, July 1998, 0 7139 9148 8
Terence Ranger
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by David Herlihy. Harvard, 117 pp., £17.95, October 1997, 0 674 07613 3 Plague, Pox and Pestilence edited by Kenneth Kiple. Weidenfeld, 176 pp., £25, January 1997, 0 297 82254 3 Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism by Sheldon Watts. Yale, 400 pp., £30, January 1997, 0 300 07015 2
James Lasdun
Two Poems
Jeremy Harding
Diary: With the KLA
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