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Vol. 23 No. 4 · 22 February 2001
Wynne Godley
Saving Masud Khan
Letters
R.W. Johnson, Michael Neve, Mary-Kay Wilmers, Stuart Griffiths, Caryle Adams, Joseph Nuttgens, J.S.F. Parker, Lucy Penhaligon, C.K. Stead, Neil Forster, Helen Robertson, Margaret Morgan, Nora Crook, J. D.
Charles Simic
Three Poems
John Bossy
The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman by Barbara Howard Traister. Chicago, 260 pp., £19, February 2001, 0 226 81140 9 Dr Simon Forman: A Most Notorious Physician by Judith Cook. Chatto, 228 pp., £18.99, January 2001, 0 7011 6899 4
Frank Kermode
Lectures on Shakespeare by W.H. Auden, edited by Arthur Kirsch. Faber, 398 pp., £30, February 2001, 9780571207121
Colin Burrow
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso, translated by Anthony Esolen. Johns Hopkins, 490 pp., £50.50, November 2000, 0 8018 6322 8
Chuma Nwokolo
Story: ‘Diary of a Dead African’
Justine Jordan
MotherKind by Jayne Anne Phillips. Cape, 292 pp., £15.99, September 2000, 0 224 05975 0
Mary Hawthorne
The Diaries of Dawn Powell 1931-65 edited by Tim Page. Steerforth, 513 pp., $19, October 1999, 1 883642 25 6
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Anna Karenina, New Puritans, Books on Cooking the Books
Michael Rogin
The Josephine Baker Story by Ean Wood. Sanctuary, 327 pp., £16.99, September 2000, 1 86074 286 6 Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s by Petrine Archer-Straw. Thames and Hudson, 200 pp., £14.95, September 2000, 0 500 28135 1
Allen Curnow
Poem: ‘A Nice Place on the Riviera’
David Kennedy
Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy by Desmond King. Harvard, 388 pp., £29.95, June 2000, 0 674 00088 9
R.W. Johnson
How Mugabe came to power
Paul Foot
Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain by George Monbiot. Macmillan, 430 pp., £12.99, September 2000, 0 333 90164 9 No Logo by Naomi Klein. Flamingo, 501 pp., £8.99, January 2001, 0 00 653040 0
Elaine Showalter
Diary: At Sundance
Terry Eagleton
In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway. Polity, 186 pp., £50, October 2000, 0 7456 2309 3
Rosemary Hill
The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius and Laughter in Literary London, 1817 by Penelope Hughes-Hallett. Viking, 336 pp., £15.99, September 2000, 0 670 87999 1
Christopher Tayler
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd. Chatto, 822 pp., £25, October 2000, 1 85619 716 6
Peter Campbell
At Tate Modern: Century City
Alison Light
Diary: The death of Raphael Samuel
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