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Contents

Vol. 21 No. 14   ·   15 July 1999

Eat Grass

Jenny Turner on The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

  • The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

The Plight of the Poor in the Midst of Plenty

Jeremy Waldron on John Rawls

  • Collected Papers by John Rawls, edited by Samuel Freeman

Letters

Chris Purnell, Victor Winstone, Stephen Howe, Graham Martin, Luke Prodromou, Giles Foden, J.G. Owen, Keith Flett, Jason Hall, Editor, ‘London Review’

John Kinsella

Linda Colley: Mother Germaine

  • The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer
  • Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew by Christine Wallace

Frank Kermode: A.J. Ayer’s Winning Ways

  • A.J. Ayer: A Life by Ben Rogers

Thomas de Waal

  • Russia's War by Richard Overy
  • Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

Ian Gilmour: Two Duff Kings

  • George IV by E.A. Smith

Bernard Porter

  • The Culture of Secrecy in Britain 1832-1998 by David Vincent

Brian Rotman

  • Between Silk and Cyanide: The Story of SOE’s Code War by Leo Marks

David Blackbourn: Two Duff Kings

  • Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser’s Early Life, 1859-88 by John Röhl, translated by Jeremy Gaines

Misha Donat

  • Robert Schumann: Herald of a ‘New Poetic Age’ by John Daverio
  • The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffman, translated by Anthea Bell

Julian Bell

  • Rembrandt by Himself edited by Christopher White and Quentin Buvelot
  • Rembrandt : The Painter at Work by Ernst van de Wetering

Gabriele Annan

  • The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

Richard Rudgley

  • The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
  • The Tulip by Anna Pavord
  • Plants of Life, Plants of Death by Frederick Simoons

Tariq Ali: Hang Wasim!

John Lloyd

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Eat Grass
Jenny Turner on The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

The Plight of the Poor in the Midst of Plenty
Jeremy Waldron on John Rawls