Vol. 23 No. 22 · 15 November 2001

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Vol. 23 No. 22 · 15 November 2001

David Simpson

Naming the Dead

Letters

Mary Beard, Tom Cleary, J. Glenn, Jeremy Waldron, Yitzhak Laor, Barbara Loon, Ruth Jennison, Julian Murphet, Stan Smith, Chris Connors, J.D.A. Wiseman, Jules Greavey, Robin Milner-Gulland, Gilbert Elliott, Robert Callwell, Navraj Ghaleigh, Caroline Lassalle, Siobhan Wall, David Wheatley

Don Paterson

Two Poems

Michael Dobson

The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book Vol. I: An Account of the First Folio Based on Its Sales and Prices, 1623-2000 by Anthony James West. Oxford, 215 pp., £70, April 2001, 0 19 818769 6

Stephen Sedley

Fundamental Values edited by Kim Economides et al. Hart, 359 pp., £40, December 2000, 1 84113 118 0

Ian Sansom

The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace. Viking, 194 pp., £12.99, September 2001, 0 670 88145 7

Jenny Turner

Reasons for Liking Tolkien

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: TV Lit

Iain Sinclair

In Hackney: Steve Dilworth

Sally Mapstone

Translated Accounts by James Kelman. Secker, 322 pp., £15.99, June 2001, 0 436 27464 7

Jonathan Haslam

Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan. Murray, 574 pp., £25, September 2001, 0 7195 5939 1

Raymond Friel

Poem: ‘The Golf Years’

Douglas Johnson

La Guerre des écrivains 1940-53 by Gisèle Sapiro. Fayard, 807 pp., frs 220, September 1999, 2 213 60211 5
Correspondance: Marcel Arland – Jean Paulhan 1936-45 edited by Jean-Jacques Didier. Gallimard, 397 pp., frs 140, March 2000, 2 07 075789 7
Dialogue des ‘vaincus’: Prison de Clairvaux, janvier-décembre 1950 by Lucien Rebatet and Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, edited by Robert Belot. Berg, 285 pp., frs 120, March 2000, 2 911289 22 6
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan. Chicago, 320 pp., £9.50, December 2000, 0 226 42415 4

Eugen Weber

Journal 1935-44 by Mihail Sebastian, translated by Patrick Camiller. Heinemann, 641 pp., £20, September 2001, 0 434 88577 0

E.S. Turner

Dr Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Historic Saga of the Round-the-World Zeppelin by Douglas Botting. HarperCollins, 356 pp., £17.99, September 2001, 0 00 257191 9

Anatol Lieven

Diary: In Pakistan

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