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Vol. 21 No. 16 · 19 August 1999
Marjorie Garber
Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel edited by Paul Budra and Betty Schellenberg. Toronto, 217 pp., £40, February 1999, 0 8020 0915 8
Letters
Mark Greenberg, Paul Taylor, Eric de Kuyper, Stan Smith, Brian Taylor, Norman Cho, Richard MacSween, Philip Hoy, Don Coles, George Chowdharay-Best, Hans Koning, Allen Curnow
Gilberto Perez
Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks: An Authorised and Illustrated Look Inside the Creative Mind of Alfred Hitchcock by Dan Auiler. Bloomsbury, 567 pp., £20, May 1999, 0 7475 4490 5
Jeremy Harding
A State of One’s Own
Michael Rogin
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis. Picador, 484 pp., £18.99, June 1999, 9780330372190
Heathcote Williams
Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey through Britain by Roger Deakin. Chatto, 320 pp., £15.99, May 1999, 0 7011 6652 5
Colin Burrow
The English Horace: Anthony Alsop and the Traditions of British Latin Verse by D.K. Money. Oxford, 406 pp., £38, December 1998, 0 19 726184 1
August Kleinzahler
Two Poems
Derek Hirst
Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-60 by David Norbrook. Cambridge, 509 pp., £40, January 1999, 0 521 63275 7
P.D.G. Thomas
Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Horne Tooke 1736-1812 by Christina Bewley and David Bewley. Tauris, 297 pp., £42, June 1998, 1 86064 344 2
Robin Robertson
Poem: ‘March, Lewisboro’
R.W. Johnson
Mandela: The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson. HarperCollins, 500 pp., £24.99, May 1999, 0 00 255829 7
Wolfgang Mommsen
Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw. Allen Lane, 845 pp., £20, September 1998, 0 7139 9047 3
Anthony Howard
In My Own Time: Reminiscences of a Liberal Leader by Jeremy Thorpe. Politico’s, 234 pp., £18, April 1999, 1 902301 21 8
Susan Wicks
Poem: ‘Miniature’
Michael Wood
Women Writers at Work edited by George Plimpton. Harvill, 381 pp., £9.99, February 1999, 1 86046 586 2 Just as I Thought by Grace Paley. Virago, 332 pp., £8.99, August 1999, 1 86049 696 2
Claudia Pugh-Thomas
Diary: Circus School
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