Vol. 23 No. 7 · 5 April 2001

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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

Peter Wollen

Gerhard Richter: ‘October 18, 1977’ edited by Robert Storr

Hal Foster

Life Style by Bruce Mau

R.W. Johnson

Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
Mandelson and the Making of New Labour by Donald Macintyre
Mo Mowlam: The Biography by Julia Langdon
Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning by Nicholas Kochan
The Paymaster: Geoffrey Robinson, Maxwell and New Labour by Tom Bower
The Future of Politics by Charles Kennedy

John Lloyd

The British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History by Trevor Herbert

Peter Campbell

Titian: The Complete Paintings by Filippo Pedrocco and Maria Agnese Chiari Moreto Weil

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Who’s the arts minister?

Christopher Tayler

Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe

David Coward

Molière: A Theatrical Life by Virginia Scott

Norma Clarke

Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career 1675-1725 by Kathryn King

John Mullan

Wordsworth: A Life by Juliet Barker
The Hidden Wordsworth by Kenneth Johnston
Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s by David Bromwich

Robert Crawford

The Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. VIII: The ‘Spy’ edited by Gillian Hughes

Jeremy Harding

At the Royal Academy: Botticelli

Mark Ford

Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems 1975-90 by August Kleinzahler

Jack Rakove

Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 by Jon Butler
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby

John Burnside

Poem: ‘Koi’

Malcolm Deas

Plan Colombia

Catherine Merridale

Diary: Ethnography Time in Russia

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