Vol. 21 No. 22 · 11 November 1999

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Vol. 21 No. 22 · 11 November 1999

Alison Light

Flush by Virginia Woolf, edited by Elizabeth Steele
Timbuktu by Paul Auster

Letters

Tim Minogue, D.J. Richards, Paul Trewhela, R.W. Johnson, Steven Rose, Arnold Rattenbury, Alan Myers

Charles Simic

Two Poems

Frank Kermode

Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips

John Bossy

Marx on Suicide edited by Eric Plaut and Kevin Anderson, translated by Gabrielle Edgcomb
Suicide in the Middle Ages, Vol I: The Violent Against Themselves by Alexander Murray
A History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture by Georges Minois, translated by Lydia Cochrane

Patrick Collinson

The World of the Favourite edited by J.H. Elliott and L.W.B. Brockliss
The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-97 by Paul Hammer

Colin Burrow

Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life by W.A. Sessions

Terry Eagleton

Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

Alex de Waal

Soldiers of Diplomacy: The United Nations, Peacekeeping and the New World Order by Jocelyn Coulon
Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention edited by Jonathan Moore
New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in the Global Era by Mary Kaldor

Douglas Johnson

A Les Trósors Retrouvós de la ‘Revue des deux Mondes’ edited by Jeanne Causse and Bruno de Cessole
La Guerre d’Algórie par les Documents. Vol. II: Les Portes de la Guerre, 10 Mars 1946 à 31 Dócembre 1954 edited by Jean-Charles Jauffret
De Gaulle et L’Algóerie: Mon Tómoinage 1960-62 by Jean Morin

Phyllis Birnbaum

A Diary of Darkness: The Wartime Diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi translated by Eugene Soviak

James Wood

Letters between a Father and Son by V.S. Naipaul

John Sturrock

George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large by Belinda Jack

David A. Bell

Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age by Ruth Harris

Gabrielle Spiegel

The Lord’s First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage by Alain Boureau, translated by Lydia Cochrane

David Wootton

Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night by Wolfgang Behringer, translated by H.C.Erik Midelfort
Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Stuart Clark
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England by Alan Macfarlane
The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Football, Witchcraft, Murder and the King of England by James Sharpe

J.D.F. Jones

Ladysmith by Giles Foden
Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries

Stephen Sedley

Diary: Judges’ Lodgings

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