Vol. 25 No. 20 · 23 October 2003

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Peter Campbell

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Vol. 25 No. 20 · 23 October 2003

Michael Wood

On Edward Said

Letters

Matthew Scully, Deborah Heller, Andrew O’Hagan, Edward Buscombe, Blair Worden, Simon Gladdish, Thomas Dilworth, Bill Myers, S.L. Barley, John Scott, William Wilson, Mark McLean, Malcolm Hurwitt, E.S. Turner, John Wardroper, Keith Ansell-Pearson, Jon Cannon, Ken Kirk, Fatema Ahmed, Elizabeth Spelman

David Runciman

Emmanuel Sieyès: Political Writings edited by Michael Sonenscher. Hackett, 256 pp., $34.95, September 2003, 0 87220 430 8

Eric Foner

Lincoln by Richard Carwardine. Longman, 352 pp., £16.99, May 2003, 0 582 03279 2
Lincoln's Constitution by Daniel Farber. Chicago, 240 pp., £20.50, May 2003, 0 226 23793 1

James Wood

Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons by J.M. Coetzee. Secker, 233 pp., £14.99, September 2003, 0 436 20616 1

Terry Eagleton

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach. Princeton, 579 pp., £13.95, May 2003, 9780691113364

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Crap Towns

Laura Quinney

Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon. Faber, 90 pp., £14.99, October 2003, 0 571 21535 1

Frank Kermode

The Poems of Andrew Marvell edited by Nigel Smith. Longman, 468 pp., £50, January 2003, 0 582 07770 2

Jonathan Barnes

The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece by Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin. Yale, 348 pp., £25, February 2003, 0 300 09297 0

Christine Stansell

Whistler, Women and Fashion by Margaret MacDonald and Susan Grace Galassi et al. Yale, 243 pp., £35, May 2003, 0 300 09906 1
Whistler and His Mother: An Unexpected Relationship by Sarah Walden. Gibson Square, 242 pp., £15.99, July 2003, 1 903933 28 5

Nicholas Penny

In Toledo, Ohio: Goltzius

Ian Campbell Ross

Hermsprong; or Man as He Is Not by Robert Bage, edited by Pamela Perkins. Broadview, 387 pp., £8.99, March 2002, 1 55111 279 5

Harry Clifton

Poem: ‘The Garden’

Hilary Mantel

Diary: Hilary Mantel meets her stepfather

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