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Vol. 23 No. 15 · 9 August 2001
John Sturrock
André Malraux: Une Vie by Olivier Todd. Gallimard, 694 pp., frs 175, April 2001, 2 07 074921 5
Letters
Alistair Elliot, Tam and Kathleen Dalyell, George Schlesinger, Kevin Kopelson, Peter Riley, Jon Newman, Mick McManus, Elaine Windrich, R.W. Johnson, Patrick Hughes
Martin Clark
L'Informatore: Silone, i Comunisti e la polizia by Dario Biocca and Mauro Canali. Luni, 275 pp., lire 30,000, March 2000, 88 7984 208 0
R.W. Davies
Midnight Diaries by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Catherine Fitzpatrick. Phoenix, 409 pp., £8.99, April 2001, 0 7538 1134 0 Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey through the Yeltsin Era by Roy Medvedev, translated by George Shriver. Columbia, 394 pp., £24, November 2000, 0 231 10606 8 Zagadka Putina by Roy Medvedev. Prava cheloveka, 93 pp., $8, March 2000, 9785771201269
Jeremy Waldron
Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by Ronald Dworkin. Harvard, 511 pp., £23.95, June 2000, 0 674 00219 9
Helen Cooper
The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theatre in Early Modern England by Michael O'Connell. Oxford, 198 pp., £30, February 2000, 9780195132052
Paul Durcan
Poem: ‘The 24,000 Islands of Stockholm’
Richard Davenport-Hines
Letters from Prison by the Marquis de Sade, translated by Richard Seaver. Harvill, 401 pp., £20, October 2000, 1 86046 807 1 De Sade's Valet by Nikolaj Frobenius, translated by Tom Geddes. Marion Boyars, 242 pp., £9.95, November 2000, 0 7145 3060 3
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier. HarperCollins, 248 pp., £5.99, July 2000, 0 00 651320 4 Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland. Review, 242 pp., £6.99, May 2001, 9780747266594 A View of Delft: Vermeer Then and Now by Anthony Bailey. Chatto, 288 pp., £16.99, April 2001, 0 7011 6913 3 Vermeer's Camera by Philip Steadman. Oxford, 207 pp., £17.99, February 2001, 0 19 215967 4
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Telly
Ian Sansom
One for My Baby by Tony Parsons. HarperCollins, 330 pp., £15.99, July 2001, 0 00 226182 0 How to Be Good by Nick Hornby. Viking, 256 pp., £16.99, May 2001, 0 670 88823 0 Little Green Man by Simon Armitage. Viking, 246 pp., £12.99, August 2001, 0 670 89442 7
Amit Chaudhuri
A Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter
William Wootten
The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins Golgonooza, 495 pp., £16.95, October 2000, 0 903880 73 3
Robin Fox
In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull by Roy Richard Grinker. St Martin’s, 354 pp., £19.75, August 2000, 0 312 22946 1
Peter Campbell
At Tate Britain: Michael Andrews
Richard Fortey
The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science by Simon Winchester. Viking, 338 pp., £12.99, August 2001, 0 670 88407 3
Richard Jenkyns
A History of Greece: From the Time of Solon to 403 BC by George Grote, edited by J.M. Mitchell and M.O.B. Caspari. Routledge, 978 pp., £60, September 2000, 0 415 22369 5
Simon Collier
Liberators: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence, 1810-30 by Robert Harvey. Murray, 561 pp., £25, May 2000, 0 7195 5566 3
Richard Sanger
Poem: ‘Monument’
Matthew Hughes
Diary: The Man Who Killed Hammarskjöld?
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