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Vol. 24 No. 14 · 25 July 2002
Michael Byers
Jumping the Gun
Letters
John Upton, Murray Sayle, A. Mackenzie Peers, Julian Preece, Irving Kristol, Nick Groom, Richard Storey, Edwin Morgan, Martin Ward, John Batten, Brian Tilbury
Jeremy Harding
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel, translated by Anthony F. Roberts. Tauris, 454 pp., £25, June 2002, 1 86064 685 9
Peter Campbell
At Tate Britain: Lucian Freud
Thomas Jones
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester. Faber, 299 pp., £16.99, July 2002, 0 571 20176 8
James Francken
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. Hamish Hamilton, 276 pp., £14.99, June 2002, 0 241 14166 4
Slavoj Žižek
Lenin by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, translated by George Holoch. Holmes & Meier, 371 pp., £35, November 2001, 0 8419 1412 5
Robert Crawford
Robert Burns: Poems edited by Don Paterson. Faber, 96 pp., £4.99, February 2001, 0 571 20740 5 The Canongate Burns: The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns edited by Andrew Noble and Patrick Scott Hogg. Canongate, 1017 pp., £40, November 2001, 0 86241 994 8
Daniel Soar
Short Cuts: Pop Poetry
Gerald Hammond
The Book: A History of the Bible by Christopher de Hamel. Phaidon, 352 pp., £24.95, September 2001, 0 7148 3774 1 The Wycliffe New Testament 1388 edited by W.R. Cooper. British Library, 528 pp., £20, May 2002, 0 7123 4728 3
John Upton
Diary: ‘Wicked. Sweet. Nice one’
Adewale Maja-Pearce
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy by Ken Wiwa. Black Swan, 320 pp., £7.99, January 2002, 0 552 99891 5 This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis by Karl Maier. Penguin, 327 pp., £9.99, February 2002, 0 14 029884 3 The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War by Stephen Ellis. Hurst, 350 pp., £40, November 1999, 1 85065 417 4
Michael Peel
Diary: In Abuja
Ian Glynn
The Fever Trail: The Hunt for the Cure for Malaria by Mark Honigsbaum. Macmillan, 333 pp., £18.99, November 2001, 0 333 90185 1
Jenny Diski
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet, translated by Adriana Hunter. Serpent’s Tail, 192 pp., £12, June 2002, 1 85242 811 2
August Kleinzahler
Two Poems
Peter Robins
Depraved Indifference by Gary Indiana. HarperCollins, 336 pp., $24.95, January 2002, 0 06 019726 9
Raja Shehadeh
Diary: in Ramallah
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