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Contents

Vol. 23 No. 8   ·   19 April 2001

Letters

Christopher Small, Murray Sayle, Mary King, Christopher Prendergast, Michael Howard, Lois Oppenheim, Editor, ‘London Review’, Janet Whatley, Fergal Tobin, Michael Dibdin

Ian Hamilton

Terry Eagleton

  • Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume One edited by Robert Denham
  • Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume Two edited by Robert Denham

Colm Tóibín

  • The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis

Bitter Chill of Winter

Tariq Ali: Kashmir

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Amis Biz

At Tate Britain

Peter Campbell: Stanley Spencer

Michael Wood

  • Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels by Tabish Khair
  • An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
  • The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
  • The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

Gossip in Gilt

James Wood: John Updike’s Licks of Love

  • Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, ‘Rabbit Remembered’ by John Updike

Transitology

Stephen Holmes on Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia by Stephen Cohen

  • Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia by Stephen Cohen

Sinking the ‘Bismarck’

Lawrence Hogben follows the chase

Contributors

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Bitter Chill of Winter
Tariq Ali: Kashmir

Gossip in Gilt
James Wood: John Updike’s Licks of Love

Transitology
Stephen Holmes on Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia by Stephen Cohen

Sinking the ‘Bismarck’
Lawrence Hogben follows the chase

At Tate Britain
Peter Campbell: Stanley Spencer

Short Cuts
Thomas Jones: Amis Biz