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Contents

Vol. 20 No. 7   ·   2 April 1998

Good Fibs

Andrew O’Hagan: Truman Capote

  • Truman Capote: In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton

Stephen Sedley: The Drafter’s Contract

  • Statutory Interpretation: third edition by Francis Bennion
  • Law and Interpretation edited by Andrei Marmor
  • Equality before the Law: Deaf People’s Access to Justice by Mary Brennan and Richard Brown

Letters

Stewart Wallis, William Morrice, Brian Southam, Jenny Balfour-Paul, Masolino d’Amico, Val Lyubarsky, Giles Foden, Nicolas Walter, Mervyn Jones

Alan Bennett Studies the Form

Anthony Grafton

  • Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in Italian Renaissance by Martin Kemp

Lorna Scott Fox

  • The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson

Michael Wood

  • Collected Poetry and Prose by Wallace Stevens, edited by Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson

Ian Hamilton: Rabbit and Zooey

  • Toward the End of Time by John Updike  Buy this book
  • Gold Dreams by John Updike

Misha Glenny calls in the Serbian Army

Thomas de Waal

  • Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk by Aleksandr Korzhakov
  • Romance with the President by Vyacheslav Kostikov

John Henderson

  • Dissidence and Literature under Nero: The Price of Rhetoricisation by Vasily Rudich

T.H. Barrett

  • The Buddha of Brewer Street by Michael Dobbs
  • The Book of Tibetan Elders: Life Stories and Wisdom from the Great Spiritual Masters of Tibet by Sandy Johnson
  • The Art of Tibet by Robert Fisher
  • Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations by Warren Smith Jr.
  • The Way to Freedom by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
  • Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
  • Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama by Mary Craig

Elaine Showalter

Owen Flanagan

  • The Analects of Confucius translated by Simon Leys
  • The Analects of Confucius translated by Chichung Huang

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Andrew O’Hagan: Truman Capote