Vol. 25 No. 21 · 6 November 2003

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Vol. 25 No. 21 · 6 November 2003

Stefan Collini

The Future of Higher Education  Stationery Office, 112 pp., £17.50, January 2003, 0 10 157352 9

Letters

Mary Elkins, Mattias Brinkman, Stephen Sedley, John Clayton, Gareth Dixon, Frank Kermode, John Yandell, Jules Greavey, Adrian Bowyer, Richard Bland, Leon Lewis, Rebecca Solnit

Thomas Jones

Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks. Viking, 517 pp., £25, October 2003, 9780670801336

Virginia Tilley

The One-State Solution

Uri Avnery

In The Mukatah

Anne Hollander

From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672 by David Kunzle. Brill, 645 pp., £64, November 2002, 90 04 12369 5

Carl Rakosi

Two Poems

Colin Burrow

Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher by Anne Hartle. Cambridge, 303 pp., £45, March 2003, 0 521 82168 1

John Sturrock

Short Cuts: Blair’s wars

Blair Worden

The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament: Literary and Historical Perspectives edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies. Ashgate, 213 pp., £45, November 2003, 0 7546 0681 3
The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair 1603-60 by Alastair Bellany. Cambridge, 312 pp., £45, January 2002, 0 521 78289 9

Peter Campbell

At the Atlantis Gallery: The Survey of India

Michael Dobson

Shakespeare’s Face: The Story behind the Newly Discovered Portrait by Stephanie Nolen. Piatkus, 365 pp., £18.99, March 2003, 0 7499 2391 1
Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions by Stephen Orgel. Palgrave, 172 pp., £25, August 2003, 1 4039 1177 0
Shakespeare in Art by Jane Martineau et al. Merrell, 256 pp., £29.95, September 2003, 1 85894 229 2
In Search of Shakespeare by Michael Wood. BBC, 352 pp., £20, May 2003, 9780563534778

John Mullan

Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy. Faber, 674 pp., £9.99, November 2003, 0 571 17997 5

Gary Indiana

Kindergarten Governor

Liam McIlvanney

Waxwings by Jonathan Raban. Picador, 311 pp., £15.99, August 2003, 0 330 41320 1

Leo Benedictus

The Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills. Flamingo, 255 pp., £10, March 2003, 0 00 715131 4

Edward Pearce

Ernest Jones, Chartism and the Romance of Politics 1819-69 by Miles Taylor. Oxford, 290 pp., £45, January 2003, 0 19 820729 8

Ben Sonnenberg

Two Poems

Patrick Cockburn

Diary: in Iraq

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