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Vol. 19 No. 21 · 30 October 1997

  • Tom Nairn
    The Departed Spirit

  • Letters

  • John Ashbery
    Poem: ‘Homecoming’

  • Peter Wollen

    • Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection by Norman Rosenthal

  • Linda Nochlin

    • American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America by Robert Hughes

  • Colin Kidd

    • Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency by Stephen Knott
    • The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O’Brien
    • American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis
    • Slave Laws in Virginia by Philip Schwarz

  • Stephen Fender

    • Dust-bowl Migrants in the American Imagination by Charles Shindo
    • In the Country of Country by Nicholas Dawidoff

  • Jerry Fodor

    • Points of View by A.W. Moore

  • T.H. Barrett

    • The City of Light by Jacob d’Ancona, translated and edited by David Selbourne

  • Jean McNicol

    • Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits by Terry Castle
    • Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall edited by Joanne Glasgow
    • Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John by Sally Cline

  • Gabriele Annan

    • The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Carol Brown Janeway

  • David Blackbourn

    • Man Without a Face: The Memoirs of a Spymaster by Markus Wolf and Anne McElvoy
    • The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash

  • Edward Said
    On ‘Fidelio’

  • Malcolm Deas

    • News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
    • Chapolas Negras by Fernando Vallejo
    • Jose Asuncion Silva: Obra Completa edited by Hector Orjuela

  • John Sutherland

    • The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Vol. XXV: January-December 1850 edited by Clyde de L. Ryals and K.J. Fielding
    • Reminiscences by Thomas Carlyle, edited by K.J. Fielding and Ian Campbell

  • David Craig
    Diary