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Vol. 25 No. 3 · 6 February 2003
Michael Wood
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann edited by Ritchie Robertson. Cambridge, 257 pp., £45.50, November 2001, 9780521653107 Thomas Mann: A Biography by Hermann Kurzke, translated by Leslie Willson. Allen Lane, 582 pp., £30, January 2002, 0 7139 9500 9
Letters
Nick Davis, Graham Kemp, Martin Blyth, Anthony Buckley, Frank Kermode, Peter Robb, Frank Dux, W.S. Milne, Margery Rowe, John Harding, Emer O’Sullivan
Chalmers Johnson
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg. Viking, 498 pp., $29.95, October 2002, 0 670 03030 9
Theo Tait
Collected Stories by Richard Yates. Methuen, 474 pp., £17.99, January 2002, 0 413 77125 3 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. Methuen, 346 pp., £6.99, February 2001, 0 413 75710 2 The Easter Parade by Richard Yates. Methuen, 226 pp., £10, January 2003, 0 413 77202 0
Charles Simic
Four Poems
Hilary Mantel
Memories of Catriona
Robert Brenner
Towards the Precipice
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: War Talk
James Meek
Cool Comfort: America’s Romance with Air-Conditioning by M. Ackerman. Smithsonian, 248 pp., £21.50, July 2002, 1 58834 040 6
Jean Sprackland
Three Poems
Jenny Diski
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson. Little, Brown, 963 pp., £25, November 2002, 0 316 85905 2 Nobody’s Perfect: Writings from the ‘New Yorker’ by Anthony Lane. Picador, 752 pp., £15.99, November 2002, 0 330 49182 2 Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film by Peter Wollen. Verso, 314 pp., £13, December 2002, 1 85984 391 3
Frank Kermode
The Wreck of the ‘Abergavenny’ by Alethea Hayter. Macmillan, 223 pp., £14.99, September 2002, 0 333 98917 1
Andrew Saint
In Le Havre
Seamus Perry
The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time by Ian Gilmour. Chatto, 410 pp., £25, June 2002, 0 7011 7110 3 Byron and Romanticism by Jerome McGann. Cambridge, 321 pp., £47.50, August 2002, 0 521 80958 4
Adrian Woolfson
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram Media, 1197 pp., £40, May 2002, 1 57955 008 8
Michael Fried
Poem: ‘The Tunnel’
Andrew Berry
Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W.D. Hamilton. Vol. II: The Evolution of Sex by W.D. Hamilton. Oxford, 872 pp., £50, January 2001, 0 19 850336 9
Nicholas Penny
Diary: at the races
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