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Vol. 21 No. 23 · 25 November 1999
Perry Anderson
History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the Nineties by Timothy Garton Ash. Allen Lane, 441 pp., £20, June 1999, 0 7139 9323 5
Letters
Michael Howard, Jessamy Harvey, Frank Grace, Iain Edwards, David Dyzenhaus, Faye Crompton, Elizabeth Lowry, Ruth Evans, James Wood, Eva Tucker, Harold Love, Andrew Hussey, Peter John Shreve
John Ashbery
Two Poems
Tom Paulin
World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell by Nicholas Murray. Little, Brown, 294 pp., £20, September 1999, 0 316 64863 9 Marvell and Liberty edited by Warren Chernaik and Martin Dzelzainis. Macmillan, 365 pp., £47.50, July 1999, 0 333 72585 9 Andrew Marvell edited by Thomas Healy. Longman, 212 pp., £12.99, September 1998, 0 582 21910 8
Glen Newey
Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover. Cape, 469 pp., £18.99, October 1999, 0 224 05240 3
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Henry James: A Life in Letters edited by Philip Horne. Penguin, 668 pp., £25, June 1999, 0 7139 9126 7 A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art by Lyndall Gordon. Chatto, 500 pp., £20, October 1998, 0 7011 6166 3
E.S. Turner
The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display by Jeffrey Auerbach. Yale, 280 pp., £25, October 1999, 0 300 08007 7
Peter Wollen
The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism by J. Hoberman. Temple, 315 pp., £27.95, November 1998, 1 56639 643 3
Michael Wood
The Eyes: A Version of Antonio Machado by Don Paterson. Faber, 60 pp., £7.99, October 1999, 0 571 20055 9
Dan Jacobson
‘Going Native’
Neil Rollinson
Two Poems
Richard Fortey
The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indochina by Roger Osborne. Cape, 244 pp., £15.99, October 1999, 0 224 05295 0
Helen Cooper
Perceval: The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes, translated by Burton Raffel. Yale, 307 pp., £22.50, March 1999, 0 300 07586 3
Jenny Diski
Karl Marx by Francis Wheen. Fourth Estate, 441 pp., £20, October 1999, 1 85702 637 3 Adventures in Marxism by Marshall Berman. Verso, 160 pp., £17, September 1999, 9781859847343
Leslie Wilson
Diary: Nazi Germany civil service
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