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Vol. 21 No. 6 · 18 March 1999
Slavoj Žižek
‘You May!’
Letters
Ferdinand Mount, John Sturrock, Duncan Wu, Michael Holroyd, Alan Rusbridger, Carol Lee, Alan Myers, Robert Bell, Tony Oujangwe, Hans Koning, Colin Armstrong
Terry Eagleton
Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin by Richard Davenport-Hines. Fourth Estate, 438 pp., £20, December 1998, 1 85702 498 2
Iain Sinclair
Eye of the Cricket by James Sallis. No Exit, 190 pp., £6.99, April 1998, 1 874061 77 7
Stephen Holmes
Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis by Alan Dershowitz. Basic Books, 275 pp., £15.95, January 1999, 0 465 01628 6 The Case against Lameduck Impeachment by Bruce Ackerman. Seven Stories, 80 pp., $8, February 1999, 1 58322 004 6
Charles Glass
Arafat: From Defender to Dictato by Said Aburish. Bloomsbury, 352 pp., £20, September 1998, 0 7475 3629 5
Jamie McKendrick
Poem: ‘Beyond’
Tim Radford
Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel. Wiley, 552 pp., £19.50, November 1998, 0 471 52942 7
Lawrence Rainey
Between Mussolini and Me
Charles Simic
Collected Poems of Vasko Popa translated by Anne Pennington. Anvil, 464 pp., £12.95, January 1998, 0 85646 268 3
Nicholas Penny
Sotheby’s: Bidding for Class by Robert Lacey. Little, Brown, 354 pp., £20, May 1998, 0 316 64447 1 Sotheby’s: Inside Story by Peter Watson. Bloomsbury, 325 pp., £7.99, May 1998, 0 7475 3808 5
James Meek
Lenin's Embalmers by Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson. Harvill, 215 pp., £12.99, October 1998, 1 86046 515 3
Philip Kitcher
Life’s Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World by Ian Stewart. Penguin, 320 pp., £20, June 1998, 0 7139 9161 5
Alan Hollinghurst
Diary: In Houston
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