Vol. 23 No. 6 · 22 March 2001

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Andrew O’Hagan

The End of British Farming

Letters

Jessica Benjamin, Malcolm Bowie, Christopher Bollas, John Forrester, André Green, Julia Kristeva, Jonathan Lear, Juliet Mitchell, Adam Phillips, J.-B. Pontalis, Jacqueline Rose, Moustapha Safouan, Donald Campbell, J.P. Roos, Coline Covington, Kirsty Hall, Linda Hopkins, Salley Vickers, Paul Seabright, G. Colin Jimack, Edward Luttwak, J.R.S. Fincham, Glen Newey

Kathleen Jamie

Poem: ‘At Robert Fergusson’s Grave’

James Meek

The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses by Dorothy Crawford. Oxford, 275 pp., £14.99, September 2000, 0 19 850332 6

David Blackbourn

Hitler, 1936-45: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw. Allen Lane, 1115 pp., £25, October 2000, 0 7139 9229 8

Richard Vinen

The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost by Patrick Marnham. Murray, 290 pp., £20, June 2000, 0 7195 5919 7

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Fastsellers

Iain Bamforth

The Adversary: A True Story of Murder and Deception by Emmanuel Carrère, translated by Linda Coverdale. Bloomsbury, 183 pp., £14.99, January 2001, 0 7475 5189 8

John Sturrock

Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity: Journeys between Cultures by Charles Forsdick. Oxford, 242 pp., £40, November 2000, 0 19 816014 3

Elizabeth Lowry

Doris Lessing: A Biography by Carole Klein. Duckworth, 283 pp., £18.99, March 2000, 0 7156 2951 4
Ben, in the World by Doris Lessing. Flamingo, 178 pp., £6.99, April 2001, 0 00 655229 3

Patrick Collinson

New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden. Allen Lane, 434 pp., £20, September 2000, 0 7139 9067 8

John Ashbery

Poem: ‘Disagreeable Glimpses’

David Edgar

Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M. Synge by W.J. McCormack. Weidenfeld, 499 pp., £25, March 2000, 0 297 64612 5
Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School 1991-2000 edited by Nicholas Grene. Lilliput, 220 pp., £29.95, July 2000, 1 901866 47 5

Jenny Diski

The Truth at Last: My Story by Christine Keeler and Douglas Thompson. Sidgwick, 279 pp., £16.99, February 2001, 0 283 07291 1

Peter Campbell

At the National Gallery: Paintings from the Berlin Nationalgalerie

Jason Burke

Diary: An execution in Kabul

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