Vol. 24 No. 7 · 4 April 2002

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Terry Castle

Courage, mon amie

Letters

Sheila Stern, Ron Haggart, Pat Harvey, Robert FitzGerald, David Rose, Steve Baiocchi, Bernard Murchland, Andrew Coulson, Andrew Graham-Yooll, Graham Kemp, Stephen Burt

Linda Nochlin

Louise Bourgeois’s ‘Spider’: The Architecture of Art-Writing by Mieke Bal. Chicago, 134 pp., £19, November 2001, 0 226 03575 1

Charles Nicholl

Mona Lisa: The History of the World’s Most Famous Painting by Donald Sassoon. HarperCollins, 350 pp., £16.99, September 2001, 0 00 710614 9

Quentin Skinner

A Third Concept of Liberty

Susan Wheeler

Poem: ‘Roanoke and Wampumpeag’

R.W. Johnson

Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War Two Espionage by Joseph Persico. Random House, 656 pp., £24.50, October 2001, 0 375 50246 7

Andy Beckett

The Protest Ethic: How the Anti-Globalisation Movement Challenges Social Democracy by John Lloyd. Demos, 94 pp., £9.95, November 2001, 1 84180 009 0

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: military intelligence

Roy Porter

Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror by J.M. Beattie. Oxford, 491 pp., £48, July 2001, 0 19 820867 7

Lorna Scott Fox

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City by Mike Davis. Verso, 202 pp., £10, November 2001, 9781859843284

Jamie McKendrick

Five Poems

David Craig

The Snow Geese by William Fiennes. Picador, 250 pp., £14.99, March 2002, 0 330 37578 4

Rose George

The Eddie Stobart Story by Hunter Davies. HarperCollins, 282 pp., £14.99, November 2001, 0 00 711597 0

Peter Wollen

The Selected Essays of John Berger edited by Geoff Dyer. Bloomsbury, 599 pp., £25, November 2001, 0 7475 5419 6

Jessica Olin

The Bystander's Scrapbook by Joseph Torra. Weidenfeld, 186 pp., £7.99, November 2001, 0 575 06767 5

Robert Macfarlane

The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher. Flamingo, 560 pp., £17.99, April 2002, 0 00 711226 2

Laura Quinney

Collected Poems by James Merrill, edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser. Knopf, 736 pp., £35.75, February 2001, 0 375 41139 9

Richard Davenport-Hines

Jack the Ripper and the London Press by Perry Curtis. Yale, 354 pp., £25, February 2002, 0 300 08872 8

Peter Campbell

Martin Parr by Val Williams. Phaidon, 354 pp., £45, February 2002, 0 7148 3990 6

Anatol Lieven

Diary: In Kabul

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