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Contents

Vol. 22 No. 11   ·   1 June 2000

Sorry to go on like this

Ian Hamilton on Kingsley Amis

My Encounter with Sartre

Edward Said describes an encounter with J-P Sartre

Going Not Guilty

John Upton is back in court

Letters

Terry Philpot, Julian Roach, Douglas Kretzmann, Gloria Grove-Stephensen, R.W. Johnson, Alfred Jowett, Anthony Beck, Julian Burgess, Kevan Martin, Geoffrey Lock, Paul Romney, Leo Zaibert, Myron Kaplan, Charley Seavey, F.S. Schwarzbach, Michael Brookes, Catherine Conybeare, Editor, ‘London Review’

R.W. Johnson: The Land Wars of Southern Africa

David Trotter: The Sorrows of Young Ford

  • Return to Yesterday by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Bill Hutchings
  • War Prose by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Max Saunders

Raymond Friel

Colin Burrow: Kermode’s Shakespeare

John Bossy: Renaissance Astrology

  • Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Grafton

Brian Rotman

  • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
  • In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery
  • Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau

Iain Sinclair goes to Hoxton

  • 45 by Bill Drummond
  • Crucify Me Again by Mark Manning

Eric Foner

  • Working-Class New York: Life and Labour Since World War Two by Joshua Freeman

Martin Jay

  • The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy by Russell Jacoby
  • Utopias: Russian Modernist Texts 1905-40 edited by Catriona Kelly
  • The Faber Book of Utopias edited by John Carey
  • The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert Proctor

Thomas Jones

Paul Smith

  • Stanley Baldwin: Conservative Leadership and National Values by Philip Williamson

Bernard Porter

  • The Struggle for Civil Liberties: Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in b Britian 1914-1945 by K. D. Ewing and C.A. Gearty

Ruth Padel

Terry Eagleton in confessional mode

  • Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature by Peter Brooks

James Wood: Speaking our Minds

Mark Rudman

  • Approximately Nowhere by Michael Hoffman

Theo Tait

Robert Macfarlane

  • Waiting by Ha Jin

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