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Vol. 22 No. 9 · 27 April 2000
Michael Wood
The Unruly Life of Woody Allen by Marion Meade. Weidenfeld, 384 pp., £20, February 2000, 0 297 81868 6
Letters
Katherine Duncan-Jones, Patrick Collinson, Michael Haslam, Frances Wilson, Frances Stonor Saunders, P. Kelly, Thomson Littlefield, Steven Wells, Norman Cantor, George Jones, Charles Swann, Stephen Sedley, S.A. Skinner
David Sylvester
A New Thing Breathing: Recent Work by Tony Cragg. Tate Gallery Liverpool
Frank Kermode
The Image of Christ edited by Gabriele Finaldi. National Gallery, 224 pp., £14.95, February 2000, 1 85709 292 9
Maurice Keen
The Hundred Years War. Vol. II: Trial by Fire by Jonathan Sumption. Faber, 680 pp., £30, August 1999, 0 571 13896 9
Jerry Coyne
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley. Fourth Estate, 344 pp., £8.99, February 2000, 9781857028355
Steven Shapin
French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory by Paul Rabinow. Chicago, 201 pp., £17.50, October 1999, 0 226 70150 6
John Lanchester
Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin. Orion, 415 pp., £16.99, February 2000, 0 7528 2129 6
Charles Simic
Four Poems
Christopher Hitchens
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow. Viking, 254 pp., £16.99, April 2000, 0 670 89131 2
Peter Clarke
Stafford Cripps: A Political Life by Simon Burgess. Gollancz, 374 pp., £25, November 1999, 0 575 06565 6
Mary Beard
The Dons by Noël Annan. HarperCollins, 357 pp., £17.99, November 1999, 0 00 257074 2 A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L.Rowse by Richard Ollard. Allen Lane, 368 pp., £20, October 1999, 0 7139 9353 7
K.D. Reynolds
Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII by Simon Heffer. Weidenfeld, 342 pp., £20, August 1998, 9780297842200 A Spirit Undaunted: The Political Role of George VI by Robert Rhodes James. Little, Brown, 368 pp., £22.50, November 1998, 0 316 64765 9
E.S. Turner
An Innkeeper's Diary by John Fothergill. Faber, 278 pp., £23.95, January 2000, 0 571 15014 4
Raymond Friel
Poem: ‘Trebarwith Strand’
Anna Vaux
The Impossibility of Sex by Susie Orbach. Allen Lane, 216 pp., £16.99, May 1999, 0 7139 9307 3
Glyn Maxwell
Poem: ‘Trapped in Miss America’s Boudoir’
Richard Lloyd Parry
A Good Place to Die by James Buchan. Harvill, 343 pp., £10.99, September 1999, 1 86046 648 6
Daniel Soar
The Pillar of Fire by Nikolai Gumilev, translated by Richard McKane. Anvil, 252 pp., £12.95, August 1999, 0 85646 310 8
Dennis O’Driscoll
Killing Time by Simon Armitage. Faber, 52 pp., £6.99, December 1999, 0 571 20360 4 Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems edited by Simon Armitage. Faber, 112 pp., £4.99, October 1999, 9780571200016
C.K. Stead
Diary: truth and autobiographies
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