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Vol. 21 No. 17 · 2 September 1999
Charles Nicholl
Field of Bones
Letters
Brian Instone, Andrew Harrison, John Upton, Lorraine Daston, William Scammell, Jeremy Bernstein, John Clayton, Simon Darragh, Roger Hutchinson, Keith Flett, Christopher Campbell
Patricia Beer
Poem: ‘Where’er You Walk’
John Bayley
Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers’ Letters 1914-18 edited by David Omissi. Macmillan, 416 pp., £17.50, April 1999, 0 333 75144 2
Garret FitzGerald
What happened to Good Friday?
John Lloyd
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman. HarperCollins, 394 pp., £19.99, May 1999, 0 00 257014 9 Global Transformation by David Held and Anthony McGrew. Polity, 515 pp., £59.50, March 1999, 0 7456 1498 1
Joyce Carol Oates
Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers edited by Carlos Dews. Wisconsin, 256 pp., £19.95, September 1999, 0 299 16440 3
Kenneth Silverman
Hemingway: The Thirties by Michael Reynolds. Norton, 360 pp., £9.95, October 1998, 0 393 31778 1 Hemingway: The Final Years by Michael Reynolds. Norton, 416 pp., £19.95, July 1999, 0 393 04748 2 True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway. Heinemann, 319 pp., £16.99, July 1999, 9780434008322
Richard Poirier
Ex-Friends by Norman Podhoretz. Free Press, 256 pp., $25, February 1999, 0 684 85594 1
Paul Henley
Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American South-West by Christy Turner and Jacqueline Turner. Utah, 512 pp., $60, January 1999, 9780874805666 Cannibalism and the Colonial World edited by Francis Barker and Peter Hulme. Cambridge, 309 pp., £13.95, August 1998, 0 521 62118 6 Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne by Frank Lestringant, translated by Rosemary Morris. Polity, 256 pp., £39.50, April 1997, 0 7456 1697 6 Chronicles of the Guayakí Indians by Pierre Clastres, translated by Paul Auster. Faber, 256 pp., £9.99, June 1998, 0 571 19398 6
John Ray
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation by Andrew George. Allen Lane, 225 pp., £20, March 1999, 0 7139 9196 8
Andrew Hussey
The Situationist City by Simon Sadler. MIT, 248 pp., £24.95, March 1998, 0 262 19392 2
Hugo Williams
Three Poems
John Welch
Diary: My Analysis
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