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Contents

Vol. 22 No. 10   ·   18 May 2000

An Ugly Baby

Andrew Berry on Alfred Russel Wallace

  • Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon by Sandra Knapp

Paradise Syndrome

Sukhdev Sandhu: Hanif Kureishi

  • Midnight All Day by Hanif Kureishi

The Pleasures and Vexations of a Amateur Musician who Loved a Grand Crash

Nicholas Spice on John Marsh

  • The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828) edited by Brian Robins

Mayhem at Millbank

David Sylvester writes about the new hang at the Tate Britain (2000)

Letters

Joe Baker, Lesley Chamberlain, Dany Nobus, Eli Zaretsky, Mick Hartley, Stephen Mitchell, Nicholas Faith, Anna Hayman, Peter Wollen, Hilary Mantel, Michael Steger, Melvyn Firth, Richard Ollard, Frederick Barker, Robert Creamer, John O’Byrne

Adam Phillips: When a body meets a body

  • Svengali’s Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture by Daniel Pick

John Ashbery

Immanuel Wallerstein: Europe’s oldest disgrace

Charles Nicholl looks out for the ‘poor half-harlot’ of Hazlitt’s affections

Gillian Darley

  • Stylistic Cold Wars: Betjeman v. Pevsner by Timothy Mowl

Thomas Jones

David Bromwich

  • Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction by Philip Fisher

David Wheatley

Gabriele Annan

  • Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, translated by Carol Brown Janeway

Lorna Sage: Feminists with Tenure

  • What is a Woman? And Other Essays by Toril Moi

Kevin Kopelson

  • Franz Liszt, Vol. III: The Final Years, 1861-86 by Alan Walker
  • The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen
  • Franz Liszt: Selected Letters edited by Adrian Williams

Rosemary Dinnage

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An Ugly Baby
Andrew Berry on Alfred Russel Wallace

Paradise Syndrome
Sukhdev Sandhu: Hanif Kureishi

The Pleasures and Vexations of a Amateur Musician who Loved a Grand Crash
Nicholas Spice on John Marsh

Mayhem at Millbank
David Sylvester writes about the new hang at the Tate Britain (2000)