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Vol. 27 No. 18 · 22 September 2005
David Runciman
Cricket’s Superpowers
Letters
A.W.B. Simpson, Rob Stradling, Eric Griffiths, Alistair Dixon, Michael Debbané, A.J. Nicholson, Richard Davenport-Hines, Simon Barley
T.J. Clark
The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art by Malcolm Bull. Allen Lane, 465 pp., £30, April 2005, 9780713992007
Mark Doty
Poem: ‘Theory of Beauty (Third Avenue)’
Frank Kermode
The Letters of Robert Lowell edited by Saskia Hamilton. Faber, 852 pp., £30, July 2005, 0 571 20204 7
Stephen Mulhall
Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics and Law by Gianni Vattimo, translated by William McCuaig. Columbia, 197 pp., £16, October 2004, 0 231 13082 1
John Hartley Williams
Poem: ‘Requiem for a Princess’
Daniel S. Greenberg
The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney. Basic Books, 288 pp., £14.99, October 2005, 0 465 04675 4
Jenny Diski
Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species by Laura Flanders. Verso, 342 pp., £10, July 2005, 1 84467 530 0
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: John Humphrys
Ferdinand Mount
Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil by Leo McKinstry. Murray, 626 pp., £25, May 2005, 0 7195 5879 4
Colin Burrow
A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels and Systems of Thought by Stephen Kern. Princeton, 437 pp., £18.95, August 2004, 0 691 11523 0
Jacqueline Rose
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham. Fourth Estate, 308 pp., £14.99, August 2005, 0 00 715605 7
Christopher Tayler
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk. Faber, 224 pp., £10.99, September 2005, 0 571 22813 5
J.L. Heilbron
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich. Arrow, 320 pp., £7.99, July 2005, 0 09 947644 4
James Davidson
At the British Museum: Persia’s ‘Forgotten Empire’
John Jones
Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt by Nicholas Roe. Pimlico, 428 pp., £14.99, January 2005, 0 7126 0224 0 The Wit in the Dungeon: A Life of Leigh Hunt by Anthony Holden. Little, Brown, 448 pp., £20, January 2005, 0 316 85927 3
Clive James
Poem: ‘Lock Me Away’
Eliot Weinberger
Diary: a poetry festival in Chengdu
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