Vol. 25 No. 14 · 24 July 2003

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Charles Glass

Is Syria next?

Letters

Patrick Wright, Patrick Collinson, Andrew Shankman, Joe Winter, Paul Simon

Richard Wollheim

Nicolas de Staël by Jean-Paul Ameline et al. Centre Pompidou, 252 pp., €39.90, March 2003, 2 84426 158 2

Anne Hollander

Motion Studies: Time, Space and Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca Solnit. Bloomsbury, 305 pp., £16.99, February 2003, 0 7475 6220 2

Charles Simic

Three Poems

Hal Foster

Agapē Agape by William Gaddis. Atlantic, 113 pp., £9.99, January 2003, 1 903809 83 5
The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings by William Gaddis, edited by Joseph Tabbi. Penguin, 182 pp., $14, October 2002, 0 14 200238 0

David Trotter

Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia by Paul Carter. Reaktion, 253 pp., £16.95, November 2002, 1 86189 128 8

Jonathan Dollimore

Autopia: Cars and Culture edited by Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr. Reaktion, 400 pp., £25, November 2002, 1 86189 132 6

John Berger

A Moment in Ramallah

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: ‘freedom’

E.S. Turner

The Tower Menagerie: Being the Amazing True Story of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts by Daniel Hahn. Simon and Schuster, 260 pp., £15.99, March 2003, 0 7432 2081 1

Andrew O’Hagan

Mr S.: The Last Word on Frank Sinatra by George Jacobs and William Stadiem. Sidgwick, 261 pp., £16.99, June 2003, 0 283 07370 5

R.F. Langley

Poem: ‘Blues for Titania’

J. Hoberman

Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde by Esther Leslie. Verso, 344 pp., £20, August 2002, 1 85984 612 2

R.W. Johnson

Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War by Simon Kuper. Orion, 244 pp., £14.99, January 2003, 0 7528 5149 7
Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football by Tom Bower. Simon and Schuster, 342 pp., £17.99, February 2003, 9780743220798

Robert Crawford

New Collected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings. Carcanet, 386 pp., £9.95, February 2002, 1 85754 559 1

Peter Campbell

At the Baltic: Antony Gormley

Miranda Seymour

Fear & Loathing in Fitzrovia: The Bizarre Life of Writer, Actor, Soho Dandy, Julian Maclaren-Ross by Paul Willetts. Dewi Lewis, 403 pp., £14.99, March 2003, 1 899235 69 8

Clive Wilmer

Poem: ‘The Architect at His Mountain Villa’

Elaine Showalter

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Bloomsbury, 378 pp., £16.99, May 2003, 0 7475 6259 8

Thomas Karshan

A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker. Chatto, 178 pp., £10, February 2003, 0 7011 7402 1

Patrick Cockburn

Diary: a report from Baghdad

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