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Vol. 25 No. 1 · 2 January 2003
Alan Bennett
Secrets are best kept by those who have no sense of humour
Letters
Bruce Clunies Ross, Richard Davies, Jeremy Hawthorn, R.B. Russell, Rex Winsbury, Joanna Griffiths, Alex Smith, Michael Fry
Hilary Mantel
Giving up the Ghost
Stephen Sedley
No More Victors’ Justice?
Ian Jack
Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-45 by Christopher McKee. Harvard, 285 pp., £19.95, May 2002, 0 674 00736 0 Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy by Peter Padfield. Pimlico, 246 pp., £12.50, August 2002, 0 7126 6834 9
Tom Paulin
Poem: ‘On Being Dealt the Anti-Semitic Card’
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Short Cuts: remembering D.A.N. Jones
Barbara Everett
A Dreame of Passion
Kathleen Jamie
Two Poems
Christopher de Bellaigue
The Martyrdom of Hossein Kharrazi
Peter Campbell
At the British Museum: Dürer
Andrew O’Hagan
I Don't Want to Fight by Lulu. Time Warner, 326 pp., £17.99, October 2002, 0 316 86169 3 Billy by Pamela Stephenson. HarperCollins, 400 pp., £6.99, July 2002, 0 00 711092 8 Just for the Record by Geri Halliwell. Ebury, 221 pp., £17.99, September 2002, 0 09 188655 4 Learning to Fly by Victoria Beckham. Penguin, 528 pp., £6.99, July 2002, 0 14 100394 4 Right from the Start by Gareth Gates. Virgin, 80 pp., £9.99, September 2002, 1 85227 914 1 Honest by Ulrika Jonsson. Sidgwick, 417 pp., £16.99, October 2002, 0 283 07367 5
Jeremy Harding
Madcap: The Half-Life of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd’s Lost Genius by Tim Willis. Short Books, 175 pp., £12.99, October 2002, 1 904095 24 0
Dan Jacobson
Way Up Way Out by Harold Strachan. David Philip, 176 pp., £6.99, July 2002, 0 86486 355 1
Benjamin Markovits
Shroud by John Banville. Picador, 408 pp., £16.99, September 2002, 0 330 48315 3
Alison Jolly
Diary: Among Lemurs
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