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Contents

Vol. 22 No. 8   ·   13 April 2000

How Fabrications Differ from a Lie

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen writes about Der Fall Freud: Die Geburt der Psychonalyse aus der Luge

  • Der Fall Freud: Die Geburt der Psychoanalyse aus der Lüge by Han Israëls, translated by Gerd Busse

What’s left of Henrietta Lacks?

Anne Enright searches the Internet

Fear in the Markets

Donald MacKenzie writes about the ways in which ‘finance theory’ becomes part of what it examines

Letters

Jerry Fodor, Alex Fox, August Kleinzahler, John Ross, Olaf Olsen, A.J.P. Dalton, Alan Saunders, Barry Fox, Trevor Kerslake, Lena Barrett, Tony White, W.S. Milne, Julia Gasper, A.E. Roberts, Kelvin Paisley, Roger Hardy, John Alpe

Peter Campbell

  • The Unknown Matisse: Man of the North, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling
  • Matisse: Father and Son by John Russell
  • Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse by John O’Brien
  • Matisse and Picasso by Yve-Alain Bois

Nicholas Penny

  • The Culture of the High Renaissance by Ingrid Rowland
  • Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna, translated by Joscelyn Godwin
  • After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the 16th Century by Marcia Hall

Matthew Battles

  • The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World edited by Roy MacLeod

Julian Bell: Sitting for Vanessa

  • The Art of Bloomsbury edited by Richard Shone
  • First Friends by Ronald Blythe
  • Bloomsbury in France by Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright

Marina Warner on the monstrousness of Britart

  • High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s by Julian Stallabrass
  • This is Modern Art by Matthew Collings

Marjorie Garber: Tupperising America

  • Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America by Alison Clarke

Dan Hawthorn writes about the constraints facing the new administration for London

Simon Schaffer: Entropists v. Energeticists

  • Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man who Trusted Atoms by Carlo Cercignani

Lorraine Daston

  • The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning by Alain Desrosières, translated by Camille Naish

James Francken

  • When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Bernard Wasserstein

  • A People Apart: The Jews in Europe 1789-1939 by David Vital

Stephen Smith

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How Fabrications Differ from a Lie
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen writes about Der Fall Freud: Die Geburt der Psychonalyse aus der Luge

What’s left of Henrietta Lacks?
Anne Enright searches the Internet

Fear in the Markets
Donald MacKenzie writes about the ways in which ‘finance theory’ becomes part of what it examines