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Vol. 25 No. 9 · 8 May 2003
David Runciman
The Politics of Good Intentions
Letters
Paul Osterrieth, Hilary Koprowski, Stanley Plotkin, Vivian Wyatt, Jonathan Bland, Edward Pearce, David Edgerton, Chris Baldick, Evan Riley, Michael Fried, Jeremy Bernstein, Robert Olby, Richard Wrigley, Patricia Miller, Martin Harries
Harry Clifton
Poem: ‘Qatar’
Danny Karlin
Herman Melville: A Biography. Vol. II: 1851-91 by Hershel Parker. Johns Hopkins, 997 pp., £31, May 2002, 0 8018 6892 0
John Mullan
Baudolino by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver. Secker, 522 pp., £18, October 2002, 0 436 27603 8
Peter Campbell
At the Saatchi Gallery: London’s new art gallery
Anatol Lieven
A Trap of Their Own Making
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Thomas Pynchon
Charles Glass
Saddamism after Saddam
Art Spiegelman
‘In the Shadow of No Towers’, episode 6: the comic continues
Yitzhak Laor
Silent Partner
Lorraine Daston
Charles Darwin. Vol. II: The Power of Place by Janet Browne. Cape, 591 pp., £25, November 2002, 0 224 04212 2
P.N. Furbank
'The Military Orchid’ and Other Novels by Jocelyn Brooke. Penguin, 437 pp., £10.99, August 2002, 0 14 118713 1
John Sturrock
Oeuvres complètes: Tome II: Romans I by Raymond Queneau, edited by Henri Godard. Gallimard, 1760 pp., €68, April 2002, 2 07 011439 2
Matthew Reynolds
The ‘Inferno’ of Dante Alighieri a new translation by Ciaran Carson. Granta, 296 pp., £14.99, October 2002, 1 86207 525 5
Laura Quinney
Allusion to the Poets by Christopher Ricks. Oxford, 345 pp., £20, August 2002, 0 19 925032 4
Hal Foster
Quick Studies: The Best of ‘Lingua Franca’ edited by Alexander Star. Farrar, Straus, 514 pp., $18, September 2002, 0 374 52863 2
Stephen Knight
Poem: ‘The Call-Box’
James Francken
English Correspondence by Janet Davey. Chatto, 199 pp., £12.99, January 2003, 0 7011 7364 5
Eve Blake
Diary: Friern Hospital
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