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Vol. 25 No. 19 · 9 October 2003
Andrew O’Hagan
Watching Me Watching Them Watching You
Letters
Clancy Sigal, August Kleinzahler, Ken Snyder, David Craig, Sally Connolly, Blair Worden, Frank Kermode, Michael Hope, Mike Killingworth, Tony Pastor, Gillan Bridgwood, Gerard McBurney, Clarence White, W.L. Smith STD, Nicholas Faith, Rebecca Solnit, Rod McLoughlin, Jonathan Calder, Anthea Maybury
Robert VanderMolen
Two Poems
Sukhdev Sandhu
Brick Lane by Monica Ali. Doubleday, 413 pp., £12.99, June 2003, 9780385604840
Eleanor Birne
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon. Cape, 272 pp., £10.99, May 2003, 0 224 06378 2
Jerry Fodor
Thinking without Words by José Luis Bermúdez. Oxford, 225 pp., £25, May 2003, 0 19 515969 1
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Summerfolk 1710-2000: A History of the Dacha by Stephen Lovell. Cornell, 259 pp., £18.95, April 2003, 0 8014 4071 8 Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc edited by David Crowley and Susan Reid. Berg, 261 pp., £15.99, November 2002, 1 85973 533 9 Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin’s Russia by Jukka Gronow. Berg, 179 pp., £15.99, October 2003, 1 85973 633 5 The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism by Caroline Humphrey. Cornell, 265 pp., £13.95, May 2002, 0 8014 8773 0
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Precious Ramotswe
Elizabeth Spelman
Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett. Allen Lane, 288 pp., £20, January 2003, 9780713996173
Peter Campbell
At the Royal Academy: How to Draw Horses
Jeremy Harding
Rimbaud Complete edited by Wyatt Mason. Scribner, 656 pp., £20, November 2003, 0 7432 3950 4 Collected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud, edited by Martin Sorrell. Oxford, 337 pp., £8.99, June 2001, 0 19 283344 8 L'Art de Rimbaud by Michel Murat. Corti, 492 pp., €23, October 2002, 2 7143 0796 5 Arthur Rimbaud by Jean-Jacques Lefrère. Fayard, 1242 pp., €44.50, May 2001, 2 213 60691 9 Arthur Rimbaud: Presence of an Enigma by Jean-Luc Steinmetz, edited by Jon Graham. Welcome Rain, 464 pp., $20, May 2002, 1 56649 251 3 Rimbaud by Graham Robb. Picador, 552 pp., £8.99, September 2001, 0 330 48803 1
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Her Sister Arabella edited by Scott Lewis. Wedgestone, $300, October 2002, 0 911459 29 4
Simon Adams
The Cradle King: A Life of James VI & I by Alan Stewart. Chatto, 438 pp., £20, February 2003, 0 7011 6984 2
August Kleinzahler
Two Poems
Dinah Birch
Stories by Elizabeth Stoddard, edited by Susanne Opfermann and Yvonne Roth. Northeastern, 238 pp., £14.50, April 2003, 1 55553 563 1
Jessica Olin
Bending Heaven by Jessica Francis Kane. Chatto, 208 pp., £10, June 2003, 0 7011 7517 6
Eric Klinenberg
The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea by Thomas Bender. New Press, 287 pp., $30, September 2002, 1 56584 736 9 Dead Cities: and Other Tales by Mike Davis. New Press, 448 pp., $16.95, October 2003, 1 56584 844 6
Rebecca Solnit
Diary: in the Sierra Nevada
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