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Contents

Vol. 21 No. 5   ·   4 March 1999

At the National Gallery

Peter Campbell: Ingres-flesh

  • Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch edited by Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee
  • Velázquez: The Technique of Genius by Jonathan Brown and Carmen Garrido

A keen horseman with a new pair of green suede chaps is guaranteed to ride into the sunset

Jenny Diski on A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook

  • A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook

Each Scene for Itself

David Edgar: The Brecht Centenary

  • War Primer by Bertolt Brecht, edited by John Willett
  • Brecht in Context: Comparative Approaches by John Willett
  • Brecht and Method by Fredric Jameson

James Wood: Joseph Roth

Letters

Christopher Hitchens, Adam Thorpe, Deborah McVea, Jeremy Treglown, Conrad Dehn, Sheldon Watts, Stuart Silverman

Nick Cohen: Get Mandy

  • Mandy: The Authorised Biography of Peter Mandelson by Paul Routledge

Olivier Todd: Bad Duras

  • Marguerite Duras by Laure Adler
  • No More by Marguerite Duras

Alexander Nehamas: Iris Murdoch

Ian Sansom: The Unhappy Laureate

  • Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis by Albert Gelpi

Ian Hamilton: Schmidt’s List

  • Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt
  • A Critical Difference: T.S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919-28 by David Goldie

Denis Donoghue: Jon Stallworthy

  • Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems by Jon Stallworthy

Steven Shapin: Fraud in the Lab

  • The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character by Daniel Kevles

Mark Ford

John Ray: Whose Troy?

  • Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik by Susan Heuck Allen

Simon Goldhill: Greek Gynaecology

  • Hippocrates’ Women: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece by Helen King

R.W. Johnson: Goodbye Zimbabwe

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At the National Gallery
Peter Campbell: Ingres-flesh

A keen horseman with a new pair of green suede chaps is guaranteed to ride into the sunset
Jenny Diski on A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook

Each Scene for Itself
David Edgar: The Brecht Centenary