Vol. 22 No. 13 · 6 July 2000

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

John Lanchester

Experience by Martin Amis. Cape, 401 pp., £18, May 2000, 0 224 05060 5

Letters

Lewis Nkosi, Agnes Grunwald-Spier, Zachary Leader, Matthew Fox, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Roger Hardy, Justin Horton, Roger Jones

Allen Curnow

Poem: ‘Fantasia and Fugue for Pan-Pipe’

Nina Auerbach

Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century by Susan Gubar. Columbia, 237 pp., £16, February 2000, 0 231 11580 6

Jenny Diski

Promise of a Dream: A Memoir of the 1960s by Sheila Rowbotham. Allen Lane, 262 pp., £18.99, July 2000, 0 7139 9446 0

Tom Clark

This is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris by James Campbell. Vintage, 320 pp., £7.99, May 2000, 0 09 928269 0

Wynne Godley

What if they start saving again?

Colin Kidd

Barbarism and Religion Vol 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-64 by J.G.A. Pocock. Cambridge, 339 pp., £55, October 1999, 0 521 77921 9
Barbarism and Religion Vol 2: Narratives of Civil Government by J.G.A. Pocock. Cambridge, 422 pp., £55, October 1999, 0 521 77921 9

Patrick Collinson

Elizabeth: Apprenticeship by David Starkey. Chatto, 339 pp., £20, April 2000, 0 7011 6939 7
Elizabeth I: Collected Works edited by Leah Marcus and Janel Mueller. Chicago, 436 pp., £25, September 2000, 0 226 50464 6

Simon Adams

The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh edited by Agnes Latham and Joyce Youings. Exeter, 403 pp., £45, July 1999, 0 85989 527 0

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Bad Manners

Iain Fenlon

Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera by John Rice. Chicago, 648 pp., £66.50, April 1999, 0 226 71125 0

Margaret Anne Doody

Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India by Wendy Doniger. Chicago, 376 pp., £43.95, June 1999, 0 226 15640 0
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth by Wendy Doniger. Columbia, 212 pp., £11.50, October 1999, 0 231 11171 1

Leah Price

Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower. Penguin, 472 pp., £18.99, February 2000, 0 7139 9373 1

Ian Hamilton

The Power of Des

D.D. Guttenplan

Whitehall and The Jews 1933-48 by Louise London. Cambridge, 313 pp., £30, March 2000, 0 521 63187 4

Daniel Soar

The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon. Picador, 230 pp., £12.99, April 2000, 0 330 39347 2

Jeremy Noel-Tod

Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn. Faber, 115 pp., £7.99, March 2000, 0 571 20298 5

Richard Fortey

Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution by Henry Gee. Fourth Estate, 262 pp., £20, April 2000, 1 85702 986 0

M.F. Perutz

Diary: Memories of J.D.Bernal

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