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Vol. 23 No. 24 · 13 December 2001
Andrew O’Hagan
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Fourth Estate, 568 pp., £17.99, November 2001, 1 84115 672 8 Ghost World directed by Terry Zwigoff.August 2001Storytelling directed by Todd Solondz.November 2001
Letters
Jon Snow, Ian Birchall, Richard Cummings, Paul Hillier, H. Sivyer, David Simpson, Mark Andrews, John Roberts, Trevor Kerslake, Jonathan Williams, Richard Maxwell, Roderick A. Jacobs, Gillian Darley
Zachary Leader
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead. Fourth Estate, 389 pp., £12, June 2001, 1 84115 569 1
Michael Wood
Apocalypse Now Redux directed by Francis Ford Coppola.August 2001Marlon Brando by Patricia Bosworth. Weidenfeld, 216 pp., £12.99, October 2001, 0 297 84284 6
James Wolcott
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan edited by John Lahr. Bloomsbury, 439 pp., £25, October 2001, 0 7475 5418 8
John Mullan
Thomas Gray: A Life by Robert Mack. Yale, 718 pp., £25, October 2000, 0 300 08499 4
Edward Said
My Guru
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Ulysses v. Ulysses
Julian Bell
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney. Thames and Hudson, 296 pp., £35, October 2001, 0 500 23785 9
Diana Souhami
Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier edited by Marilyn McCully, translated by Christine Baker. Abrams, 296 pp., £24, May 2001, 0 8109 4251 8
Christopher Prendergast
Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall. Faber, 413 pp., £25, October 2001, 0 571 19521 0
Benjamin Markovits
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro. Chatto, 323 pp., £14.99, November 2001, 0 7011 7292 4
John Sutherland
Red Dog by Louis de Bernières. Secker, 119 pp., £10, October 2001, 0 436 25617 7 Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World by Louis de Bernières. Vintage, 119 pp., £6.99, October 2001, 9780099428442
Gabriele Annan
No Saints or Angels by Ivan Klíma, translated by Gerald Turner. Granta, 267 pp., £14.99, October 2001, 1 86207 448 8
Ruth Franklin
Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich by Gordon A. Craig. Oxford, 232 pp., £26, November 2000, 0 19 512837 0
John Burnside
Poem: ‘The Inner Ear’
Stefan Collini
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose. Yale, 534 pp., £29.95, June 2001, 0 300 08886 8
Peter Campbell
At the V&A: Among the Artefacts
Jon Cannon
Diary: in Chengdu, China
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