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Vol. 23 No. 16 · 23 August 2001
Mary Beard
Cicero: A Turbulent Life by Anthony Everitt. Murray, 346 pp., £22.50, April 2001, 0 7195 5491 8
Letters
Leo Abse, Claude Romney, Axel Harvey, Steve Fuller, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, Henry Schermer, J.G. Finlayson, J.F. Darycott
Charles Simic
Three Poems
John Lanchester
Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous by Don Foster. Macmillan, 340 pp., £14.99, April 2001, 0 333 78170 8
Andrew Sugden
Extinct Birds by Errol Fuller. Oxford, 398 pp., £29.50, May 2001, 0 19 850837 9
Patrick Wright
A History of Bombing by Sven Lindqvist, translated by Linda Haverty Rugg. Granta, 233 pp., £14.99, May 2001, 1 86207 415 1 The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive 1939-45 by Robin Niellands. Murray, 448 pp., £25, February 2001, 0 7195 5637 6 Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald. Touchstone, 592 pp., $17, March 2001, 0 7432 0023 3
Sarah Maguire
Poem: ‘Ramallah’
Alex de Waal
Like Water on Stone: The Story of Amnesty International by Jonathan Power. Allen Lane, 332 pp., £12.99, May 2001, 0 7139 9319 7 Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21st Century by Michael Edwards. Earthscan, 292 pp., £12.99, September 2000, 1 85383 740 7 East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia by Daniel Bell. Princeton, 369 pp., £12.50, May 2000, 0 691 00508 7
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: 10,860 novels
Terry Eagleton
God, Gulliver and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination 1492-1945 by Claude Rawson. Oxford, 401 pp., £25, June 2001, 0 19 818425 5
John Mullan
Fanny Burney: A Biography by Claire Harman. Flamingo, 464 pp., £8.99, October 2001, 0 00 655036 3 Fanny Burney: Her Life by Kate Chisholm. Vintage, 347 pp., £7.99, June 1999, 0 09 959021 2 Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III by Hester Davenport. Sutton, 224 pp., £25, June 2000, 0 7509 1881 0
Hal Foster
Frank Gehry: The Art of Architecture edited by Jean-Louis Cohen et al. Abrams, 500 pp., £55, May 2001, 0 8109 6929 7
Gilberto Perez
John Cassavetes: Lifeworks by Tom Charity. Omnibus, 257 pp., £10.95, March 2001, 0 7119 7544 2 Cassavetes on Cassavetes edited by Ray Carney. Faber, 526 pp., £17.99, March 2001, 0 571 20157 1
Jessica Olin
Crawling at Night by Nani Power. Heinemann, 234 pp., £9.99, July 2001, 0 434 00856 7
Robert Macfarlane
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke. Chatto, 208 pp., £10, June 2001, 0 7011 6982 6 The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill. Weidenfeld, 344 pp., £12.99, March 2001, 0 297 64697 4
Jeremy Harding
At the Barbican: Pilger pictures
Jonathan Dollimore
Diary: Depression Studies
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