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Vol. 22 No. 2 · 20 January 2000
Alan Bennett
Diary: What I did in 1999
Letters
Paul Seabright, Brian Fewster, C.A. Bayly, David Gilmour, Murray Biggs, Perry Anderson, David Cronin, Neil Wilson, Paul Trewhela, James Thomson
John Ashbery
Two Poems
Jonathan Rée
An Essay on Metaphysics by R.G. Collingwood, edited by Rex Martin. Oxford, 439 pp., £48, July 1998, 0 19 823561 5 The New Leviathan by R.G. Collingwood, edited by David Boucher. Oxford, 525 pp., £17.99, March 1999, 0 19 823880 0 The Principles of History by R.G. Collingwood, edited by W.H. Dray and W.J. van der Dussen. Oxford, 293 pp., £48, March 1999, 0 19 823703 0
Frank Kermode
Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban. Picador, 435 pp., £16.99, November 1999, 0 330 34628 8
Mark Doty
Poem: ‘Manhattan: Luminism’
Lawrence Rainey
Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism by T.J. Clark. Yale, 451 pp., £30, April 1999, 0 300 07532 4
Jeremy Waldron
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes by Quentin Skinner. Cambridge, 477 pp., £15.95, July 1997, 0 521 59645 9
Barbara Newman
Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen edited by Sabina Flanagan. Shambhala, 186 pp., £10.99, August 1998, 1 57062 164 0 The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Vol. II translated by Joseph Baird. Oxford, 215 pp., £36, October 1998, 0 19 512010 8 Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources edited by Anna Silvas. Pennsylvania State, 299 pp., £15.50, September 1998, 0 271 01954 9 Physica by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Priscilla Throop. Healing Art, 250 pp., £19.99, August 1998, 0 89281 661 9 On Natural Philosophy and Medicine by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Margret Berger. Brewer, 166 pp., £12.99, July 1999, 0 85991 551 4
Rosemary Hill
The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Fashion Writing edited by Judith Watt. Viking, 360 pp., £20, November 1999, 0 670 88215 1 Twentieth-Century Fashion by Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye. Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., £8.95, November 1999, 0 500 20321 0 A Century of Fashion by François Baudot. Thames and Hudson, 400 pp., £19.95, November 1999, 0 500 28178 5 The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914 by Christopher Breward. Manchester, 278 pp., £45, September 1999, 0 7190 4799 4 Black in Fashion by Valerie Mendes. Victoria & Albert Museum, 144 pp., £35, October 1999, 1 85177 278 2
Nicholas Penny
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper by John Richardson. Cape, 320 pp., £20, November 1999, 0 224 05056 7
Martin Harrison
Poem: ‘January’
John Allen Paulos
The Mathematical Brain by Brian Butterworth. Macmillan, 446 pp., £20, April 1999, 0 333 73527 7
Ian Hacking
For and against Method: including Lakatos’s Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence by Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend, edited by Matteo Motterlini. Chicago, 451 pp., £24, October 1999, 0 226 46774 0
Mark Mazower
Quisling: A Study in Treachery by Hans Fredrik Dahl, translated by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife. Cambridge, 452 pp., £30, May 1999, 0 521 49697 7
Stefan Collini
The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. I: 1829-59 edited by Cecil Lang. Virginia, 549 pp., £47.50, November 1998, 0 8139 1651 8 The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. II: 1860-65 edited by Cecil Lang. Virginia, 505 pp., £47.95, November 1998, 0 8139 1706 9 The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. III: 1866-70 edited by Cecil Lang. Virginia, 483 pp., £47.95, November 1998, 0 8139 1765 4
John Sutherland
Thackeray by D.J. Taylor. Chatto, 494 pp., £25, October 1999, 0 7011 6231 7
Elizabeth Lowry
Triomf by Marlene van Niekerk, translated by Leon de Kock. Little, Brown, 444 pp., £16.99, November 1999, 0 316 85202 3
Patrick McGuinness
With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry by Donald Davie. Carcanet, 346 pp., £14.95, October 1998, 1 85754 394 7
Andrew Saint
Diary: The Jubilee Line Extension
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