Vol. 26 No. 2 · 22 January 2004

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Peter Campbell

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Vol. 26 No. 2 · 22 January 2004

John Upton

In the Streets of Londonistan

Letters

Stephen Green, Michael Pollak, Michael Brearley, Rob Close, Richard Thomas, Ian Leslie, Keith Flett, Graham Brown, John Lloyd, Colin Armstrong, J.H. Stape, John Sutherland, Don Locke, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Manfred Schulz, Anne-Marie Smith

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Princess Di and Laura Palmer

T.J. Clark

Three Poems

Mary Beard

Tacitus: Histories I edited by Cynthia Damon. Cambridge, 324 pp., £17.99, December 2002, 0 521 57822 1

John Mullan

The ’45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising by Christopher Duffy. Cassell, 639 pp., £20, March 2003, 0 304 35525 9
Samuel Johnson in Historical Context edited by J.C.D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill. Palgrave, 336 pp., £55, December 2001, 0 333 80447 3

Jonathan Rée

Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio. Heinemann, 355 pp., £20, May 2003, 0 434 00787 0

Frank Kermode

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Tóibín. Picador, 127 pp., £7.99, September 2003, 0 330 41993 5

Peter Campbell

At the British Museum: Living, Dying and Enlightenment

Miranda Seymour

Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography by Vineta Colby. Virginia, 387 pp., £32.50, May 2003, 0 8139 2158 9

Caroline Murphy

Camilla: An Intimate Portrait by Rebecca Tyrrel. Short Books, 244 pp., £14.99, October 2003, 1 904095 53 4

Michael André Bernstein

Mortals by Norman Rush. Cape, 715 pp., £18.99, July 2003, 0 224 03709 9

John Sutherland

Diary: The crisis in academic publishing

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