Vol. 24 No. 3 · 7 February 2002

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Vol. 24 No. 3 · 7 February 2002

Michael Hofmann

Last Poems by James Schuyler. Slow Dancer, 64 pp., £7.99, January 1999, 1 871033 51 9
Alfred and Guinevere by James Schuyler. NYRB, 141 pp., £7.99, June 2001, 0 940322 49 8

Letters

Geoffrey Gershenson, Mark Elf, Gabrielle Parker, Alan MacKichan, Trevor Denning, Adam Czerniawski, G. Colin Jimack, Ian Southern, T. Chertsey, Michael Hampton, Patrick Hughes, Frank St George, I. Brooker, Stuart Hood, Nicholas Jacobs

Tariq Ali

Mullahs and Heretics

Kanan Makiya

Whose Jerusalem?

Peter Campbell

In Denbigh Road

Anne Carson

Poem: ‘Guillermo’s Sigh Symphony’

Bruce Ackerman

Don’t Panic

Ronald Stevens

A Press Free and Responsible: Self-Regulation and the Press Complaints Commission 1991-2001 by Richard Shannon. Murray, 392 pp., £25, September 2001, 0 7195 6321 6

Paul Myerscough

Short Cuts: Iris Murdoch

John Foot

Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli, translated by Alastair McEwen. Granta, 464 pp., £20, November 2001, 1 86207 456 9

Blair Worden

Cromwell’s Major-Generals: Godly Government during the English Revolution by Christopher Durston. Manchester, 270 pp., £15.99, May 2001, 0 7190 6065 6

W.G. Runciman

Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors by Pascal Boyer. Heinemann, 430 pp., £20, September 2001, 0 434 00843 5

Terence Hawkes

The Gatekeeper: A Memoir by Terry Eagleton. Allen Lane, 178 pp., £9.99, January 2002, 0 7139 9590 4

Rebecca Mead

True Tales of American Life by Paul Auster. Faber, 416 pp., £16.99, November 2001, 0 571 21050 3

Thomas Jones

Rumours of a Hurricane by Tim Lott. Viking, 378 pp., £14.99, February 2002, 0 670 88661 0

Dinah Birch

Albertine by Jacqueline Rose. Chatto, 205 pp., £14.99, October 2001, 0 7011 6976 1

Mick Imlah

Poem: ‘Maritime (1934-67)’

David Coward

Complete Tales in Verse by Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Guido Waldman. Carcanet, 334 pp., £14.95, October 2000, 9781857544824
The Fables of La Fontaine: Wisdom Brought down to Earth by Andrew Calder. Droz, 234 pp., £36.95, September 2001, 2 600 00464 5
The Craft of La Fontaine by Maya Slater. Fairleigh Dickinson, 255 pp., $43.50, May 2001, 0 8386 3920 8

Chris Wilmers

Diary: In Yellowstone Park

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