Vol. 22 No. 4 · 17 February 2000

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Vol. 22 No. 4 · 17 February 2000

Peter Wollen

The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience by Celeste Olalquiaga

Letters

Jeremy Treglown, Pat Hutley, Sylvia Elias, Michael Byers, Frank Kermode, L.P.E. Edwards, Ivor Kraft, D.J. Taylor, Charles Landon, Alex de Waal, Jeffrey Sievert, David Wootton, Christopher Dolan

Allen Curnow

Poem: ‘The Cake Uncut’

Neal Ascherson

After Britain: New Labour and the Return of Scotland by Tom Nairn

Michael Dobson

In My End Is My Beginning: A Life of Mary Queen of Scots by James Mackay
Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation by Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
Ancestry and Narrative in 19th-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy by Sophie Gilmartin

Adam Phillips

Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters by Ted Cohen

John Mullan

The Dunciad in Four Books by Alexander Pope, edited by Valerie Rumbold

Derek Jarrett

Edmund Burke. Vol. I: 1730-84 by F.P. Lock

Mary Beard

John Soane: An Accidental Romantic by Gillian Darley
John Soane, Architect: Master of Space and Light by Margaret Richardson and Mary-Anne Stevens
Sir John Soane and the Country Estate by Ptolemy Dean

Wendy Doniger

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Thomas Jones

Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle

John Bayley

The Charterhouse of Parma by Henri B. Stendhal, translated by Richard Howard

Graham Robb

La Grand Thérèse or The Greatest Swindle of the Century by Hilary Spurling

Andy Beckett

Manchester, England: The Story of the Pop Cult City by Dave Haslam

Richard Gott

Robinson’s Footprints

John Tranter

Poem: ‘On the Road’

Vesna Goldsworthy

Diary: In Montenegro

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