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

David Blackbourn

Hitler, 1936-45: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw

Richard Vinen

The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost by Patrick Marnham

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Fastsellers

Iain Bamforth

The Adversary: A True Story of Murder and Deception by Emmanuel Carrère, translated by Linda Coverdale

John Sturrock

Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity: Journeys between Cultures by Charles Forsdick

Elizabeth Lowry

Doris Lessing: A Biography by Carole Klein
Ben, in the World by Doris Lessing

Patrick Collinson

New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden

John Ashbery

Poem: ‘Disagreeable Glimpses’

David Edgar

Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M. Synge by W.J. McCormack
Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School 1991-2000 edited by Nicholas Grene

Jenny Diski

The Truth at Last: My Story by Christine Keeler and Douglas Thompson

Peter Campbell

At the National Gallery: Paintings from the Berlin Nationalgalerie

Jason Burke

Diary: An execution in Kabul

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