Vol. 23 No. 19 · 4 October 2001

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Vol. 23 No. 19 · 4 October 2001

Malcolm Bull

Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Harvard, 478 pp., £12.95, August 2001, 0 674 00671 2

Letters

Gordon Wardman, John Coggrave, Barbara Blœdé, Michael Hampton, Edgar Ernstbrunner, Neil Alldred, George Hornby, Alistair Dixon, Frank Ridley

Edwin Morgan

Poem: ‘Pelagius’

Frank Kermode

Atonement by Ian McEwan. Cape, 372 pp., £16.99, September 2001, 0 224 06252 2

Anatol Lieven

The New Cold War

Sukhdev Sandhu

Aliens and Others

Edward Luttwak

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the Richest, Most Powerful Criminal in History by Mark Bowden. Atlantic, 387 pp., £16.99, June 2001, 1 903809 00 2

Neal Ascherson

The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo De Witte, translated by Ann Wright and Renée Fenby. Verso, 224 pp., £17, July 2001, 1 85984 618 1

Claire Harman

The Nightfisherman: Selected Letters of W.S. Graham edited by Michael Snow and Margaret Snow. Carcanet, 401 pp., £12.95, November 1999, 1 85754 445 5

11 September

Tariq Ali, Mary Beard, David Bromwich, James Buchan, Terry Castle, Amit Chaudhuri, Lorraine Daston, Terry Eagleton, Eric Foner, Paul Foot, Hal Foster, Charles Glass, J. Hoberman, Stephen Holmes, Robert Irwin, Fredric Jameson, R.W. Johnson, Yitzhak Laor, Thomas Laqueur, Thomas Powers, Michael Rogin, Richard Rorty, Jacqueline Rose, David Runciman, Edward Said, Charles Simic, Jeremy Waldron, Michael Wood

Arnold Rattenbury

Selected Poems by Randall Swingler, edited by Andy Croft. Trent, 113 pp., £7.99, October 2000, 1 84233 014 4
British Writing of the Second World War by Mark Rawlinson. Oxford, 256 pp., £35, June 2000, 0 19 818456 5

Peter Campbell

At the Royal Academy: Frank Auerbach

David Wootton

The Possession at Loudun by Michel de Certeau, translated by Michael Smith. Chicago, 251 pp., £27, August 2000, 0 226 10034 0
The Certeau Reader edited by Graham Ward. Blackwell, 320 pp., £60, November 1999, 0 631 21278 7
Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist by Ian Buchanan. Sage, 143 pp., £50, July 2000, 0 7619 5897 5

Alan Jenkins

Poem: ‘Cousins’

Rosemary Hill

A Circle of Sisters: Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin by Judith Flanders. Penguin, 392 pp., £17.99, September 2001, 0 670 88673 4
The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939 by Adam Nicolson. Short Books, 96 pp., £4.99, May 2001, 0 571 20835 5
Victorian Diaries: The Daily Lives of Victorian Men and Women edited by Heather Creaton. Mitchell Beazley, 144 pp., £14.99, February 2001, 1 84000 359 6

Marjorie Garber

Seabiscuit: The Making of a Legend by Laura Hillenbrand. Fourth Estate, 399 pp., £16.99, May 2001, 1 84115 091 6

James Francken

A Gentleman's Game by Tom Coyne. Atlantic, 264 pp., £15, July 2001, 1 903809 05 3
Riverbank Tweed and Roadmap Jenkins: Tales from the Caddie Yard by Bo Links. Simon and Schuster, 302 pp., £15, May 2001, 0 684 87362 1
Spikes by Michael Griffith. Arcade, 258 pp., £17, February 2001, 1 55970 536 1

Will Frears

Diary: At Ground Zero

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