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Vol. 25 No. 24 · 18 December 2003
Charles Glass
The New Piracy
Letters
John Carey, Martyn Goff, James Wood, Eva Gillies, Rex Winsbury, Derek Robinson, Bruce Clunies Ross, Mattias Brinkman, E.S. Turner, Carol Reid, Marius Pope
Mark Doty
Poem: ‘Heaven for Helen’
Marian FitzGerald
Prisongate: The Shocking State of Britain’s Prisons and the Need for Visionary Change by David Ramsbotham. Free Press, 267 pp., £20, October 2003, 0 7432 3884 2
Bill Manhire
Poem: ‘Death of a Poet’
Terry Castle
My Heroin Christmas
John Fuller
Poem: ‘Iguana Days’
Gregory Dart
The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt edited by Robert Morrison and Michael Eberle-Sinatra. Pickering & Chatto, £495, July 2003, 1 85196 714 1
Michael Wood
What Henry Knew
John Sturrock
Short Cuts: A Bath in the Dock
Robert Macfarlane
The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny, translated by Ralph Freedman. Canongate, 311 pp., £10.99, September 2003, 1 84195 403 9
A.W. Moore
Everything and More: A Compact History of ∞ by David Foster Wallace. Weidenfeld, 319 pp., £14.99, November 2003, 0 297 64567 6 A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable by Brian Clegg. Constable, 255 pp., £8.99, September 2003, 1 84119 650 9 The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan. Allen Lane, 324 pp., £20, August 2003, 0 7139 9629 3
Kathleen Jamie
Into the Dark
Hal Foster
At the Guggenheim: Pop Surrealism
Richard Fortey
After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC by Steven Mithen. Weidenfeld, 622 pp., £25, June 2003, 0 297 64318 5
P.N. Furbank
The Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis. Cape, 150 pp., £14.99, November 2003, 0 224 07120 3
John Jones
Diary: Iris, Hegel and Me
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