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Contents

Vol. 20 No. 22   ·   12 November 1998

Newsreel History

Terry Eagleton on Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad

  • Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad

At the Crossroads Hour

Lewis Nkosi on Chinua Achebe

  • Chinua Achebe: A Biography by Ezenwa-Ohaeto

Adam Phillips: On Being Understood

Letters

Christopher Hitchens, Neal Ascherson, David Warren, Adam Wilkins, A.W. Carus, John Calderón, Brian Thomas, Dave Cope, John Bayley, Richard Davenport-Hines, John Griffith, David Tipping, Michael Neve

Robert Crawford

Frank Lentricchia: Four Fictions

Richard Cronin

Rosalind Krauss: The Sanctification of Rebecca Horn

  • Rebecca Horn: The Glance of Infinity edited by Carl Haenlein

Frank Kermode

  • Jack Yeats by Bruce Arnold

Helen King

  • Media: A Modern Retelling by Christa Wolf, translated by John Cullen

David Edgar on Peter Brook

  • Threads of Time by Peter Brook

Anand Menon

  • On the Brink: The Trouble with France by Jonathan Fenby

Sylvia Lawson writes about the return of Australia’s Coalition Government

Katherine Duncan-Jones’s Nocturnal Plastifications

Contributors

Featured articles

Newsreel History
Terry Eagleton on Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad

At the Crossroads Hour
Lewis Nkosi on Chinua Achebe