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Vol. 23 No. 7 · 5 April 2001
Murray Sayle
Japan goes Dutch
Letters
Ahmed Gul, David Moore, Roger Nobbs, Robin Cooper, Cal Winslow, Michael Richards, Richard Morris, Keith Flett
Derek Mahon
Poem: ‘New Wave’
Christopher Hitchens
A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China by Patrick Tyler. PublicAffairs, 512 pp., £11.99, September 2000, 1 58648 005 7
Peter Wollen
Gerhard Richter: ‘October 18, 1977’ edited by Robert Storr. Museum of Modern Art, 151 pp., £30, November 2000, 0 87070 023 5
Hal Foster
Life Style by Bruce Mau. Phaidon, 626 pp., £39.95, November 2000, 0 7148 3827 6
R.W. Johnson
Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley. Hamish Hamilton, 434 pp., £17.99, September 2000, 0 241 14029 3 Mandelson and the Making of New Labour by Donald Macintyre. HarperCollins, 638 pp., £6.99, September 2000, 0 00 653062 1 Mo Mowlam: The Biography by Julia Langdon. Little, Brown, 324 pp., £16.99, September 2000, 0 316 85304 6 Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning by Nicholas Kochan. Politico’s, 302 pp., September 2000, 1 902301 55 2 The Paymaster: Geoffrey Robinson, Maxwell and New Labour by Tom Bower. Simon and Schuster, 272 pp., £17.99, March 2001, 0 7432 0689 4 The Future of Politics by Charles Kennedy. HarperCollins, 235 pp., £17.99, September 2000, 0 00 710131 7
John Lloyd
The British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History by Trevor Herbert. Oxford, 381 pp., £48, June 2000, 0 19 816698 2
Peter Campbell
Titian: The Complete Paintings by Filippo Pedrocco and Maria Agnese Chiari Moreto Weil. Thames and Hudson, 336 pp., £50, March 2001, 0 500 09297 4
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Who’s the arts minister?
Christopher Tayler
Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe. Picador, 380 pp., £14.99, January 2001, 0 330 39161 5
David Coward
Molière: A Theatrical Life by Virginia Scott. Cambridge, 333 pp., £35, October 2000, 0 521 78281 3
Norma Clarke
Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725 by Kathryn King. Oxford, 263 pp., £40, September 2000, 0 19 818702 5
John Mullan
Wordsworth: A Life by Juliet Barker. Viking, 971 pp., £25, October 2000, 9780670872138 The Hidden Wordsworth by Kenneth Johnston. Pimlico, 690 pp., £15, September 2000, 0 7126 6752 0 Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s by David Bromwich. Chicago, 186 pp., £9.50, April 2000, 0 226 07556 7
Robert Crawford
The Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. VIII: The ‘Spy’ edited by Gillian Hughes. Edinburgh, 641 pp., £60, March 2000, 9780748613656
Jeremy Harding
At the Royal Academy: Botticelli
Mark Ford
Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems 1975-90 by August Kleinzahler. Faber, 82 pp., £8.99, September 2000, 0 571 20428 7
Jack Rakove
Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 by Jon Butler. Harvard, 324 pp., £19.50, May 2000, 0 674 00091 9 Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby. Harvard, 322 pp., £17.95, May 2000, 0 674 00236 9
John Burnside
Poem: ‘Koi’
Malcolm Deas
Plan Colombia
Catherine Merridale
Diary: Ethnography Time in Russia
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