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Contents

Vol. 21 No. 23   ·   25 November 1999

M for Merlin

Helen Cooper on Chrétien de Troyes

  • Perceval: The Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes, translated by Burton Raffel

Effing the Ineffable

Glen Newey on Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover

  • Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover

Stalin at the Movies

Peter Wollen on The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism by J. Hoberman

  • The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism by J. Hoberman

Perry Anderson

  • History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the Nineties by Timothy Garton Ash

Letters

Michael Howard, Jessamy Harvey, Frank Grace, Iain Edwards, David Dyzenhaus, Faye Crompton, Elizabeth Lowry, Ruth Evans, James Wood, Eva Tucker, Harold Love, Andrew Hussey, Peter John Shreve

John Ashbery

Tom Paulin: Life and Vowels of Andrew Marvell

  • World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell by Nicholas Murray
  • Marvell and Liberty edited by Warren Chernaik and Martin Dzelzainis
  • Andrew Marvell edited by Thomas Healy

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Henry James: A Life in Letters edited by Philip Horne
  • A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art by Lyndall Gordon

E.S. Turner

  • The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display by Jeffrey Auerbach

Michael Wood

Dan Jacobson on sexual favours in colonial East Africa

Neil Rollinson

Richard Fortey

  • The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indochina by Roger Osborne

Jenny Diski

  • Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
  • Adventures in Marxism by Marshall Berman

Leslie Wilson

Contributors

Featured articles

M for Merlin
Helen Cooper on Chrétien de Troyes

Effing the Ineffable
Glen Newey on Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover

Stalin at the Movies
Peter Wollen on The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism by J. Hoberman