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Contents

Vol. 21 No. 16   ·   19 August 1999

I’ll be back

Marjorie Garber: Sequels

  • Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel edited by Paul Budra and Betty Schellenberg

Diary

Claudia Pugh-Thomas at Circus School

It’s the plunge that counts

Heathcote Williams on Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey through Britain by Roger Deakin

  • Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey through Britain by Roger Deakin  Buy this book

Letters

Mark Greenberg, Paul Taylor, Eric de Kuyper, Stan Smith, Brian Taylor, Norman Cho, Richard MacSween, Philip Hoy, Don Coles, George Chowdharay-Best, Hans Koning, Allen Curnow

Gilberto Perez

  • Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks: An Authorised and Illustrated Look Inside the Creative Mind of Alfred Hitchcock by Dan Auiler

Jeremy Harding writes about Kosovo

Michael Rogin: Destroying Los Angeles

  • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis

Colin Burrow

  • The English Horace: Anthony Alsop and the Traditions of British Latin Verse by D.K. Money

August Kleinzahler

Derek Hirst

  • Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 1627-60 by David Norbrook

P.D.G. Thomas

  • Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Horne Tooke 1736-1812 by Christina Bewley and David Bewley

R.W. Johnson

  • Mandela: The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson

Wolfgang Mommsen

  • Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw

Anthony Howard

  • In My Own Time: Reminiscences of a Liberal Leader by Jeremy Thorpe

Michael Wood

  • Women Writers at Work edited by George Plimpton
  • Just as I Thought by Grace Paley

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I’ll be back
Marjorie Garber: Sequels

Diary
Claudia Pugh-Thomas at Circus School

It’s the plunge that counts
Heathcote Williams on Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey through Britain by Roger Deakin