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Vol. 21 No. 11 · 27 May 1999
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment by Isobel Grundy. Oxford, 680 pp., £30, April 1999, 0 19 811289 0
Letters
David Sylvester, Neil Forster, G.A. Parish, George Braddon, Richard Davenport-Hines, Doug Smith, Keith Flett, Simon Cockshutt, Mat Pires, Emma Tennant, Arif Azad, Stephen Kellie, Alan Gabbey, Seamus Perry, Lewis Smith, David Cesarani, John Crombie, Ivor Potts, Katharine Weber
Mark Ford
Two Poems
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses by Ian Hacking. Free Association, 239 pp., £15.95, April 1999, 1 85343 455 8
Lynne Mastnak
‘Why are you leaving?’
Audrey Gillan
What’s the story?
Richard Gott
Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll. Westview, 336 pp., £20, February 1999, 0 8133 3574 4
John Kerrigan
Opened Ground: Poems 1966-96 by Seamus Heaney. Faber, 478 pp., £20, September 1998, 0 571 19492 3 The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study by Neil Corcoran. Faber, 276 pp., £9.99, September 1998, 0 571 17747 6 Seamus Heaney by Helen Vendler. HarperCollins, 188 pp., £15.99, November 1998, 0 00 255856 4
Colin Kidd
Clear Tartan Water
Paul Seabright
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott. Yale, 464 pp., £25, May 1998, 0 300 07016 0
Tim Parks
Voltaire's Coconuts by Ian Buruma. Weidenfeld, 326 pp., £18.99, March 1999, 0 297 64312 6
Anna Vaux
Antonia White by Jane Dunn. Cape, 484 pp., £20, November 1998, 9780224036191
Gabriele Annan
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai. Chatto, 240 pp., £14.99, June 1999, 0 7011 6894 3
Ruth Padel
Poem: ‘The Phoenix’
Frank Kermode
Diary: being a critic
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