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Contents

Vol. 22 No. 14   ·   20 July 2000

Make enemies and influence people

Ross McKibbin tells Tony Blair what to do

Letters

George Braddon, Patrick McGuinness, Andrew Cowan, Scott Ashley, David Hawkes, Lynne Segal, Marion Kozak, Jo Kelly, Adrian Bowyer, Philip Russell, A. Duane, William Gilbert, Fergus Carroll, Steven Maynard, Michael Payne, Henry Gee, Julian Connerty, Jeffrey Frankland, Robert Fraser, Martin Murray

Andrew O’Hagan

  • The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky edited by Joan Acocella, translated by Kyril Fitzylon
  • Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins

Drowned in the Desert

James Meek writes about A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes by Lee Goff

  • A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solves Crimes by Lee Goff

Michael Wood

  • Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Volume II: Revolution and Reunciation, 1790-1803 by Nicholas Boyle
  • Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by John Williams

John Mullan

  • To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury

Thomas Jones

  • Mainly about Linsay Anderson by Gavin Lambert

A Science of Tuesdays

Jerry Fodor writes about the Threefold Cord: Mind, Body and World by Hilary Putnam

  • The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body and World by Hilary Putnam

R.W. Johnson in Zimbabwe

Peter Wollen at Tate Modern

John Sturrock

Stephen Burt

  • In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art by Russell Ferguson
  • The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets by David Lehman
  • Frank O’Hara: Poet among Painters by Marjorie Perloff

Reviel Netz

John Ashbery

Lorna Scott Fox

  • Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight by Adrian Shubert

Theo Tait

Gabriele Annan

  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Luke Hughes

  • Ghosts of Everest: The Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory & Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb and Larry Johnson
  • Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine by Peter Firstbrook
  • The Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory by David Breashears and Audrey Salkeld

Andrew Sugden

  • Killer Algae: The True Tale of Biological Invasion by Alexandre Meinesz, translated by Daniel Simberloff

Rory Stewart

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