Vol. 24 No. 18 · 19 September 2002

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Vol. 24 No. 18 · 19 September 2002

Dinah Birch

Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse 1810-88 by Ann Thwaite

Letters

Diego Gambetta, Ian Thomson, David Walker, Peter Conradi, Kate Hutchinson, Henry Tattersall, Martin Watts, Alison Macleod, Sabah Salih, Wolfgang Eisermann, Mark Valentine, John Bayley, Canon John Giles, Michael Goldman, Simon Renouf, Pauline Asher

Terry Eagleton

The ‘Criterion’: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Interwar Britain by Jason Harding

Ross McKibbin

The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps by Peter Clarke

Jeremy Waldron

Against Equality of Opportunity by Matt Cavanagh

John Sturrock

Keys of Egypt by Lesley Atkins and Roy Atkins
The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics by Robert Solé and Dominique Valbelle, translated by Steven Rendall
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson
The Man who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris by Andrew Robinson

Mary Beard

Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections by Frances Spalding

Patrick Collinson

The Antichrist’s Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England by Peter Lake and Michael Questier

Stephen Sedley

Sceptical Essays on Human Rights edited by Tom Campbell and K.D. Ewing

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Cyborgs

John Kerrigan

Reading after Theory by Valentine Cunningham

Peter Campbell

In the Physic Garden: in Chelsea

Peter Lagerquist

Very Active Defence

James Wolcott

The Black Veil by Rick Moody

Sean Wilsey

The Greeter

John Kinsella

Poem: ‘Rain Gauge’

James Francken

Zanzibar by Giles Foden

Jason Burke

Diary: in Kurdistan

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