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Contents

Vol. 21 No. 18   ·   16 September 1999

What Might Have Happened Upstairs

Mary Beard: Pompeii

  • Pompeii: Public and Private Life by Paul Zanker, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider

The Style It Takes

Mark Ford on John Cale

  • What’s Welsh for Zen? The Autobiography of John Cale by John Cale and Victor Bockris

Stephen Sedley: What will happen to the Law Lords?

  • The House of Lords: Its Parliamentary and Judicial Roles edited by Brice Dickson and Paul Carmichael
  • Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years edited by Robert Hazell
  • The Law and Parliament edited by Dawn Olivier and Gavin Drewry
  • Crown Powers: Subject and Citizens by Christopher Vincenzi

Letters

Anthony Sampson, Margaret Kennedy, P.S. Joll, A.J. Caston, Roger Deakin, William Harshaw, Michael Prior, Dan Jacobson, David Norbrook

Matthew Sweeney

Germaine Greer: Rochester as New Man

  • The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester edited by Harold Love

Thomas Jones

  • Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler

Peter Campbell

  • Anthony van Dyck 1599-1641 by Christopher Brown and Hans Vlieghe
  • Anthony van Dyck: A Life, 1599-1641 by Robin Blake

Avi Shlaim on why peace with Syria and the Palestinians is getting closer

E.H.H. Green

  • Bonar Law by R.J.Q. Adams

Peter Bradshaw

  • Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill edited by Mary Soames

Will Woodward at the Iowa Straw Poll

Mark Rudman

David Craig

James Peach

  • My Phantom Husband by Marie Darrieussecq, translated by Helen Stevenson

Tom Paulin: Summer in Donegal

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What Might Have Happened Upstairs
Mary Beard: Pompeii

The Style It Takes
Mark Ford on John Cale