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Contents

Vol. 24 No. 3   ·   7 February 2002

Slowly/Swiftly

Michael Hofmann praises James Schuyler

  • Last Poems by James Schuyler
  • Alfred and Guinevere by James Schuyler

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

Mullahs and Heretics

Tariq Ali: A Secular History of Islam

Kanan Makiya

In Denbigh Road

Peter Campbell on David Sylvester

Don’t Panic

Bruce Ackerman: States of Emergency

Ronald Stevens

  • A Press Free and Responsible: Self-Regulation and the Press Complaints Commission 1991-2001 by Richard Shannon

Short Cuts

Paul Myerscough: Iris Murdoch

John Foot

  • Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli, translated by Alastair McEwen

Blair Worden: Cromwell’s Bad Idea

  • Cromwell’s Major-Generals: Godly Government during the English Revolution by Christopher Durston

W.G. Runciman: The Biology of Belief

  • Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors by Pascal Boyer

Terence Hawkes: Eagleton’s Rise

Rebecca Mead

  • True Tales of American Life by Paul Auster

Thomas Jones

  • Rumours of a Hurricane by Tim Lott

David Coward

  • Complete Tales in Verse by Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Guido Waldman
  • The Fables of La Fontaine: Wisdom Brought down to Earth by Andrew Calder
  • The Craft of La Fontaine by Maya Slater

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Slowly/Swiftly
Michael Hofmann praises James Schuyler

Mullahs and Heretics
Tariq Ali: A Secular History of Islam

Don’t Panic
Bruce Ackerman: States of Emergency

In Denbigh Road
Peter Campbell on David Sylvester

Short Cuts
Paul Myerscough: Iris Murdoch