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Vol. 23 No. 14 · 19 July 2001
David Runciman
Democracy in Europe by Larry Siedentop. Penguin, 254 pp., £8.99, June 2001, 0 14 028793 0 The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Max Pensky. Polity, 216 pp., £45, December 2000, 0 7456 2351 4
Letters
Keith Kyle, Anthony Arblaster, Edmund Epstein, Keith Hughes, Norman Cantor, Salah el Serafy, Sheridan Morley, John Ashbery, Henry Hardy, P. Le Pelley, Colin Honnor, Alistair Watson, Ward Lloyd, John Tilleard
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘Croy. Ee. Gaw. Lonker. Pit’
Peter Clarke
Keith Joseph by Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett. Acumen, 488 pp., £28, March 2001, 9781902683034
Colin Kidd
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment by Emma Rothschild. Harvard, 366 pp., £30.95, June 2001, 0 674 00489 2
Edward Said
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff. Oxford, 599 pp., £25, March 2000, 9780198165347
Peter Campbell
At Condor Cycles
Tom Paulin
Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions by Maximilian Novak. Oxford, 756 pp., £30, April 2001, 0 19 812686 7 Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe edited by W.R. Owens and P.N. Furbank. Pickering & Chatto, £595, December 2000, 1 85196 465 7
Jeremy Harding
Short Cuts: Milosevic is delivered to the Hague
Keith Thomas
Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens by John Evelyn, edited by John Ingram. Pennsylvania, 492 pp., £49, December 2000, 0 8122 3536 3
Linda Colley
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage. Cambridge, 239 pp., £35, September 2000, 0 521 59081 7
Adam Phillips
Speak You Also: A Survivor’s Reckoning by Paul Steinberg, translated by Linda Coverdale. Allen Lane, 176 pp., £9.99, May 2001, 0 7139 9540 8
Iain Bamforth
Little Goldbug
August Kleinzahler
Eternal Monday: New and Selected Poems by György Petri, translated by Clive Wilmer. Bloodaxe, 96 pp., £7.95, June 1999, 1 85224 504 2
Peter Lipton
The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-93 by Thomas Kuhn, edited by James Conant and John Haugeland. Chicago, 335 pp., £16, November 2000, 0 226 45798 2 Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times by Steve Fuller. Chicago, 472 pp., £24.50, June 2000, 0 226 26894 2
J. Hoberman
Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Audiences by Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence. Rutgers, 280 pp., £38.95, August 2000, 0 8135 2803 8 Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux by J. Ronald Green. Indiana, 368 pp., £21.95, August 2000, 0 253 33753 4
Christopher Tayler
The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy. Century, 672 pp., £16.99, April 2001, 0 7126 4817 8
Inga Clendinnen
Diary: Liver Transplant No. 108
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