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Vol. 23 No. 8 · 19 April 2001
Charles Nicholl
The Last Years of Edward Kelley, Alchemist to the Emperor
Letters
Christopher Small, Murray Sayle, Mary King, Christopher Prendergast, Michael Howard, Lois Oppenheim, Janet Whatley, Fergal Tobin, Michael Dibdin
Ian Hamilton
Two Poems
Terry Eagleton
Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume One edited by Robert Denham. Toronto, 418 pp., £45, September 2000, 0 8020 4751 3 Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume Two edited by Robert Denham. Toronto, 531 pp., £45, September 2000, 0 8020 4752 1
Colm Tóibín
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis. Fourth Estate, 1270 pp., £35, November 2000, 1 85702 781 7
Tariq Ali
Bitter Chill of Winter
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Amis Biz
Peter Campbell
At Tate Britain: Stanley Spencer
Michael Wood
Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels by Tabish Khair. Oxford, 407 pp., £21.50, March 2001, 0 19 565296 7 An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma. Faber, 282 pp., £9.99, January 2001, 0 571 20673 5 The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri. Bloomsbury, 329 pp., £16.99, February 2001, 0 7475 5270 3 The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh. HarperCollins, 551 pp., £16.99, July 2000, 0 00 226102 2
James Wood
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, ‘Rabbit Remembered’ by John Updike. Hamish Hamilton, 368 pp., £16.99, March 2001, 9780241141298
Stephen Holmes
Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia by Stephen Cohen. Norton, 305 pp., £15.95, November 2000, 0 393 04964 7
Lawrence Hogben
Diary: Sinking the ‘Bismarck’
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