Vol. 24 No. 6 · 21 March 2002

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

James Meek

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky. Cape, 452 pp., £17.99, February 2002, 0 224 06084 8
Salt: Grain of Life by Pierre Laszlo, translated by Mary Beth Mader. Columbia, 220 pp., £15.95, July 2001, 0 231 12198 9

Letters

Malcolm Deas, Piotr Jozefow, Paul Pritchard, J.R. Evenhuis, David Rose, Lucia Nixon, Yukio Ioki, Robin Insull, Jim Cook

Perry Anderson

Land without Prejudice

Ruth Padel

Four Poems

John Sturrock

La Reprise by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Minuit, 253 pp., €15.09, November 2001, 9782707317568

Hal Foster

Andy Warhol by Wayne Koestenbaum. Weidenfeld, 196 pp., £12.99, November 2001, 0 297 64630 3

Thomas Frank

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes how the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg. Regnery, 234 pp., $27.95, December 2001, 0 89526 190 1

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Blair on Blincoe?

Avi Shlaim

Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City by Bernard Wasserstein. Profile, 420 pp., £9.99, March 2002, 1 86197 333 0

Ian Gilmour

Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity by Blair Worden. Allen Lane, 387 pp., £20, November 2001, 9780713996036

Hugo Williams

Two Poems

Richard White

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America by Daniel Richter. Harvard, 317 pp., £17.95, January 2002, 0 674 00638 0

Adrian Woolfson

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software by Steven Johnson. Allen Lane, 288 pp., £14.99, October 2001, 0 7139 9400 2
The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture by Mark Taylor. Chicago, 340 pp., £20.50, January 2002, 0 226 79117 3

Alison Light

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf, edited by Naomi Black. Blackwell, 253 pp., £60, October 2001, 0 631 17724 8

Peter Campbell

At the Hayward: Paul Klee

Benjamin Markovits

Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink, translated by John Woods. Weidenfeld, 309 pp., £12.99, February 2002, 0 297 82903 3

Jeremy Harding

Diary: The Late Jonas Savimbi

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