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Vol. 25 No. 2 · 23 January 2003
Stefan Collini
Orwell's Victory by Christopher Hitchens. Allen Lane, 150 pp., £9.99, June 2002, 9780713995848
Letters
James Wood, Peter Pulzer, Alexander Hutchison, Elizabeth Clowes, Martin Scofield, William Myers, Bernard Bergonzi, Leo Vanderpot, Peter Heyworth
Alice Oswald
Two Poems
Hilary Mantel
Little Miss Neverwell
Helen Vendler
Never by Jorie Graham. Carcanet, 112 pp., £9.95, September 2002, 1 85754 621 0
Steven Shapin
Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes by Richard A. Watson. Godine, 375 pp., £22, April 2002, 1 56792 184 1
Anatol Lieven
Pakistan: Eye of the Storm by Owen Bennett-Jones. Yale, 328 pp., £18.95, August 2002, 0 300 09760 3
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Nephews and Daughters
Glen Newey
About as Useful as a String Condom
Peter Clarke
Denis Healey: A Life in Our Times by Edward Pearce. Little, Brown, 634 pp., £28, June 2002, 0 316 85894 3 Friends and Rivals: Crosland, Jenkins and Healey by Giles Radice. Little, Brown, 376 pp., £20, September 2002, 0 316 85547 2
Arnold Rattenbury
Collected Poems and Songs by Hamish Henderson, edited by Raymond Ross. Curly Snake, 163 pp., £9.99, March 2000, 1 902141 01 6
Peter Campbell
At the Whitechapel: Mies van der Rohe
Dave Haslam
The Promised Land: Travels in Search of the Perfect E by Decca Aitkenhead. Fourth Estate, 206 pp., £12.99, January 2002, 1 84115 337 0
Peter Robins
Behindlings by Nicola Barker. Flamingo, 535 pp., £10.99, February 2002, 0 00 713525 4
Robert VanderMolen
Poem: ‘‘Fishing at the Falls’, ‘Scarlet Tanager’’
Joshua Brown
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury. Arrow, 366 pp., £6.99, January 2003, 0 09 943674 4 Gangs of New York directed by Martin Scorsese.December 2002
Rose George
Diary: in the New Beirut
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