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Vol. 22 No. 7 · 30 March 2000

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Vol. 22 No. 7 · 30 March 2000

Hilary Mantel

Robespierre edited by Colin Haydon and William Doyle

Letters

Dave Hickey, Galen Strawson, Stephen Burt, Richard Cummings, Jonathan Pratter, C.G. Estabrook, Gabriel Finkelstein, Conrad Dehn, Anna Bostock, Myron Kaplan, Stephen Sedley, Vanessa Coode, R.E. Bye, Ole Jann, Jenny Diski, Keith Flett, Theo Tait

Matthew Sweeney

Poem: ‘The Ice Hotel’

Elizabeth Spelman

On the Emotions by Richard Wollheim

R.W. Johnson

Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwall

George Ellis

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

Patrick Collinson

Philip Sidney: A Double Life by Alan Stewart

David Sylvester

Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser by Harriet Vyner

James Wood

On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion by Gabriel Josipovici

Jerome McGann

Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Collected Writings edited by Jan Marsh
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Painter and Poet by Jan Marsh

Jenny Diski

Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers by Frances Wilson

Lorna Scott Fox

Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera by Patrick Marnham
Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals by Linda Bank Downs

Sarah Maguire

Two Poems

Thomas Jones

The Third Woman by William Cash
Greene on Capri: A Memoir by Shirley Hazzard

Christopher Tayler

Canteen Culture by Ike Eze-anyika
Charlieunclenorfolktango by Tony White
Filth by Irvine Welsh

Lynne Mastnak

Not Much Tolerance, Not Much Water

Jerry Fodor

Diary: The Elton John and Tim Rice reworking of Aida

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