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Vol. 24 No. 12 · 27 June 2002
David Blackbourn
Im Krebsgang: Eine Novelle by Günter Grass. Steidl, 216 pp., €18, February 2002, 3 88243 800 2
Letters
Christopher Prendergast, Nick Groom, Anne Carson, Hugh Turner, Graham Brown, John Sullivan, D. Duggan, Mike Taylor, John Bayley, Gennady Gorelik, Gillian Fisher, Constance Blackwell, John Birtwhistle, Des Cranston, Frank Phillips, W.S. Milne, Mary Ann Harrell, Philip Stine, Henry Cohen, C.N. Campbell, George Haycock, Elaine Jordan, Liz Young, Alasdair Sinclair
Patrick McGuinness
Two Poems
Barbara Everett
Distraction v. Attraction
James Wood
Critical Times: The History of the ‘Times Literary Supplement’ by Derwent May. HarperCollins, 606 pp., £25, November 2001, 0 00 711449 4
Iain Sinclair
A Hit of Rus in Urbe
Eric Foner
The Strange Death of American Liberalism by H.W. Brands. Yale, 200 pp., £16, January 2002, 0 300 09021 8
Colin Burrow
Chapman’s Homer: The ‘Iliad’ edited by Allardyce Nicoll. Princeton, 613 pp., £13.95, December 1998, 0 691 00236 3 Chapman’s Homer: The ‘Odyssey’ edited by Allardyce Nicoll. Princeton, 613 pp., £13.95, January 2001, 0 691 04891 6
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Dream On
P.N. Furbank
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d’Orcia by Caroline Moorehead. Murray, 351 pp., £22, October 2000, 0 7195 5672 4
Lavinia Greenlaw
Poem: ‘The Long Day Closes’
Gilberto Perez
Close-Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and Future by Hamid Dabashi. Verso, 302 pp., £15, November 2001, 1 85984 332 8
Dinah Birch
The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner. Viking, 247 pp., £16.99, June 2002, 0 670 91302 2
Peter Campbell
At the British Library: Great Nations of Europe Coming Through
William Doyle
The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism 1680-1800 by David A. Bell. Harvard, 304 pp., £30.95, November 2001, 0 674 00447 7
Michael Longley
Three Poems
Julian Jackson
Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire. Volume I: The State by Pierre Nora, translated by Mary Trouille. Chicago, 475 pp., £25, October 2001, 0 226 59132 8
Alex Oliver
The Warden of English: The Life of H.W. Fowler by Jenny McMorris. Oxford, 242 pp., £19.99, June 2001, 0 19 866254 8
Andrew O’Hagan
Diary: Hating Football
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