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Contents

Vol. 21 No. 17   ·   2 September 1999

What happened to Good Friday?

Garret FitzGerald on the way ahead in Ireland

Field of Bones

Charles Nicholl: the last journey of Thomas Coryate, the English fakir and legstretcher

Letters

Brian Instone, Andrew Harrison, John Upton, Lorraine Daston, William Scammell, Jeremy Bernstein, John Clayton, Simon Darragh, Editor, Roger Hutchinson, Keith Flett, Christopher Campbell

John Bayley

  • Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers’ Letters 1914-18 edited by David Omissi

John Lloyd

  • The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
  • Global Transformation by David Held and Anthony McGrew

Joyce Carol Oates: The Autobiography of Carson McCullers

  • Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers edited by Carlos Dews

Kenneth Silverman

  • Hemingway: The Thirties by Michael Reynolds
  • Hemingway: The Final Years by Michael Reynolds
  • True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway

Richard Poirier: How Podhoretz Dumped His Friends

  • Ex-Friends by Norman Podhoretz

Paul Henley: Yes, People Were Cooked

  • Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American South-West by Christy Turner and Jacqueline Turner
  • Cannibalism and the Colonial World edited by Francis Barker and Peter Hulme
  • Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne by Frank Lestringant, translated by Rosemary Morris
  • Chronicles of the Guayakí Indians by Pierre Clastres, translated by Paul Auster

John Ray

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation by Andrew George

Andrew Hussey

  • The Situationist City by Simon Sadler

Hugo Williams

John Welch

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What happened to Good Friday?
Garret FitzGerald on the way ahead in Ireland

Field of Bones
Charles Nicholl: the last journey of Thomas Coryate, the English fakir and legstretcher