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Vol. 24 No. 23 · 28 November 2002
Ross McKibbin
Nothing More Divisive
Letters
Göran Nilsson, Jeffrey Frankland, Andrew Stilwell, William Gavin, Duncan Forbes, Gerald Moore, D.M. Roskies, Derick Schilling, Barbara Lewalski, Nick Matthews, Hywel Griffiths, P.N. Furbank, Judith Willson, Robin Thompson
Thomas Jones
In the Classroom
Joseph Frank
Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes. Allen Lane, 729 pp., £25, October 2002, 0 7139 9517 3
George O’Brien
In the Line of Fire
Brendan Simms
Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse. Cape, 585 pp., £20, April 2002, 0 224 06243 3
Neal Ascherson
Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor. Viking, 490 pp., £25, April 2002, 0 670 88695 5
Michael Hofmann
Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg, translated by Paul Britten Austin. Harvill, 143 pp., £10, November 2002, 1 84343 009 6 The Serious Game by Hjalmar Söderberg, translated by Eva Claeson. Marion Boyars, 239 pp., £8.99, September 2001, 0 7145 3061 1
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt. Chatto, 422 pp., £16.99, September 2002, 0 7011 7380 7
Iqbal Ahmed
Short Cuts: Oh to be in England
Frank Kermode
The Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s by Humphrey Carpenter. Allen Lane, 244 pp., £18.99, September 2002, 0 7139 9532 7
Carl Rakosi
Two Poems
Paul Laity
Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000 by Richard Weight. Macmillan, 866 pp., £25, May 2002, 0 333 73462 9 Pariah: Misfortunes of the British Kingdom by Tom Nairn. Verso, 176 pp., £13, September 2002, 1 85984 657 2 Identity of England by Robert Colls. Oxford, 422 pp., £25, October 2002, 0 19 924519 3 Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd. Chatto, 518 pp., £25, October 2002, 1 85619 716 6
Peter Campbell
At Tate Britain: Gainsborough
David Reynolds
Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the ‘Lusitania’ by Diana Preston. Doubleday, 543 pp., £18.99, May 2002, 0 385 60173 5 Lusitania: Saga and Myth by David Ramsay. Chatham, 319 pp., £20, September 2001, 1 86176 170 8 Woodrow Wilson by John Thompson. Longman, 288 pp., £15.99, August 2002, 0 582 24737 3
Martin Jay
Situatedness; Or, Why We Keep Saying Where We’re Coming From by David Simpson. Duke, 290 pp., £14.50, March 2002, 0 8223 2839 9
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘Emily Carr’
Stephen O’Shea
The Talk of Turkey
Carl Elliott
Diary: The Ethics of Bioethics
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