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Vol. 22 No. 23 · 30 November 2000
Jonathan Rée
Hegel: An Intellectual Biography by Horst Althaus, translated by Michael Tarsh. Polity, 292 pp., £45, May 2000, 0 7456 1781 6 Hegel: Biographie by Jacques D'Hondt. Calmann-Lévy, 424 pp., frs 150, October 1998, 2 7021 2919 6
Letters
Arthur Symondson, Geoffrey Wall, James Atlas, Dan Hamer, Sylvia Lawson, Thomas Davies, Patrick Leech, David Koblick, Alison Millard
Charles Glass
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim. Allen Lane, 670 pp., £25, April 2000, 9780713994100 Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999 by Benny Morris. Murray, 752 pp., £25, January 2000, 0 7195 6222 8 A Blood-Dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East by Amos Elon. Allen Lane, 354 pp., £20, August 2000, 0 7139 9368 5 Fabricating Israeli History: The ‘New Historians’ by Efraim Karsh. Frank Cass, 236 pp., £39.50, May 2000, 0 7146 5011 0 From Herzl to Rabin: The Changing Image of Zionism by Amnon Rubinstein. Holmes & Meier, 283 pp., £25, October 2000, 0 8419 1408 7
Aharon Shabtai, translated by Peter Cole
Two Poems
Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Tania Tamari Nasir
Poem: ‘Requiem for Mohammad Al-Dura’
Susan Eilenberg
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life by Janet Todd. Weidenfeld, 516 pp., £25, April 2000, 0 297 84299 4
Frank Kermode
Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries 1979-81 by James Lees-Milne, edited by Michael Bloch. Murray, 276 pp., £22.50, October 2000, 0 7195 5608 2 A Mingled Measure: Diaries 1953-72 by James Lees-Milne. Murray, 325 pp., £12.99, October 2000, 0 7195 5609 0 Ancient as the Hills: Diaries 1973-74 by James Lees-Milne. Murray, 228 pp., £12.99, October 2000, 0 7195 6200 7
Roy Foster
The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-20 by John McCourt. Lilliput, 306 pp., £25, June 2000, 1 901866 45 9
Steven Shapin
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain. Bloomsbury, 307 pp., £16.99, August 2000, 0 7475 5072 7
Daniel Soar
Short Cuts: The Kursk
Margaret Visser
The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture by Rebecca Spang. Harvard, 325 pp., £21.95, April 2000, 0 674 00064 1 Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession by Amy Trubek. Pennsylvania, 171 pp., £18.50, June 2000, 0 8122 3553 3
Peter Campbell
At the Villa Medici: 17th-Century Religous Paintings
John Sutherland
Bill W. and Mr Wilson: The Legend and Life of AA’s Co-Founder by Matthew Raphael. Massachusetts, 206 pp., £18.50, June 2000, 1 55849 245 3
Mary Beard
Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth by J.A. MacGillivray. Cape, 313 pp., £20, August 2000, 0 224 04352 8
Andrew Saint
Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture by Adrian Forty. Thames and Hudson, 335 pp., £28, April 2000, 0 500 34172 9
Michael Wood
The Search Warrant by Patrick Modiano, translated by Joanna Kilmartin. Harvill, 137 pp., £7.99, September 2000, 1 86046 612 5
Iain Sinclair
King of the City by Michael Moorcock. Scribner, 421 pp., £9.99, May 2000, 0 684 86140 2 Mother London by Michael Moorcock. Scribner, 496 pp., £6.99, May 2000, 0 684 86141 0
Justin Huggler
The Stone Woman by Tariq Ali. Verso, 274 pp., £15, July 2000, 1 85984 764 1
Hal Foster
The Great US Election Disaster
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