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Contents

Vol. 22 No. 24   ·   14 December 2000

Joseph Farrell

The English Disease

Hugh Pennington: Who’s to blame for BSE?

  • The BSE Inquiry by Lord Phillips et al

Letters

Andrew Taylor, Alan Bennett, Janet Todd, Charles Plouviez, Roy Foster, Joe Morison, David Brauner, Anita McBride, Michael Moorcock, J.L. Nelson, Jim Forrest

Ian Hamilton: Watch your mouth!

  • Diaries: Into Politics by Alan Clark
  • The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists edited by Irene Taylor and Alan Taylor
  • The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt: Vol. III: From Major to Blair edited by Sarah Curtis

Palestinians under Siege

Edward Said puts Palestine on the map

Pipe down back there!

Terry Castle: The Willa Cather Wars

  • Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella

Thomas Jones

August Kleinzahler: Richard Brautigan Revisited

  • An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan
  • Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-70 by Richard Brautigan
  • You Can't Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan

Jessica Olin

  • Like Normal People by Karen Bender

Gilberto Perez

  • Stroheim by Arthur Lennig
  • The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini by Tag Gallagher

David A. Bell

  • Englishness Identified: Manners and Character, 1650-1850 by Paul Langford

At Tate Britain

Frank Kermode: William Blake

E.S. Turner goes tobogganing

  • How the English Made the Alps by Jim Ring
  • Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming

R.W. Johnson

  • Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56 edited by Elizabeth Hodgkin and Michael Wolfers

Peter Campbell

  • Indigo by Jenny Balfour-Paul
  • Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World by Simon Garfield

David Craig: Land Artists

  • Time by Andy Goldsworthy

Contributors

LRB cover artwork: Black flowers

Featured articles

Palestinians under Siege
Edward Said puts Palestine on the map

Pipe down back there!
Terry Castle: The Willa Cather Wars

The English Disease
Hugh Pennington: Who’s to blame for BSE?

At Tate Britain
Frank Kermode: William Blake