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Vol. 24 No. 16 · 22 August 2002
James Hamilton-Paterson
Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World by Oliver Morton. Fourth Estate, 351 pp., £18.99, June 2002, 9781841156682
Letters
Richard Eyre, Hilary Mantel, Andy Beckett, Bruce Kent, Paul Vaughan, Tom Kuhn, Keith Flett, David Miller, Aidan Hartley, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen & Philippe Pignarre, Robin Holloway
Hal Foster
Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art by Michael Lobel. Yale, 196 pp., £35, March 2002, 0 300 08762 4
Andrew O’Hagan
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy by Simon Louvish. Faber, 518 pp., £8.99, September 2002, 0 571 21590 4
Colin Burrow
Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift by Jason Scott-Warren. Oxford, 273 pp., £45, August 2001, 0 19 924445 6
Jacqueline Rose
‘This is not a biography’
Peter Campbell
At Tate Britain: Thomas Girtin
Stephen Mulhall
The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life by Jeff McMahan. Oxford, 554 pp., £35, February 2002, 0 19 507998 1
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Second Novel Anxiety Syndrome
Richard Fortey
Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’ by James Secord. Chicago, 624 pp., £22.50, February 2002, 0 226 74410 8
John Burnside
Poem: ‘The Last Man to Speak Ubykh’
Steven Shapin
Eating Right in the Renaissance by Ken Albala. California, 315 pp., £27.95, February 2002, 0 520 22947 9 Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle. California, 457 pp., £19.95, February 2002, 0 520 22465 5
Paul Seabright
The Future of Success by Robert Reich. Vintage, 289 pp., £8.99, April 2002, 0 09 942906 3
Christina Gombar
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings. Fourth Estate, 180 pp., £10, April 2002, 1 84115 737 6
Frank Kermode
The Man Who Walks by Alan Warner. Cape, 280 pp., £16.99, May 2002, 0 224 06294 8
John Ashbery
Two Poems
Christopher Tayler
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton. Hamish Hamilton, 261 pp., £14.99, May 2002, 0 241 14010 2
Tom Vanderbilt
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg. Chicago, 305 pp., £19.50, August 2002, 0 226 44321 3
Tariq Ali
Diary: al-Jazeera
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