Vol. 25 No. 5 · 6 March 2003

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Colin Burrow

Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin by Frances Harris. Oxford, 330 pp., £25, January 2003, 0 19 925257 2

Letters

Roger Etherington, Christopher Prendergast, Conrad Sinclair, William Wells, Stuart Maconie, Phil Edwards, David Nicol, Tim Sanders, Jim Valentine, Colin Tucker, Paul O’Brien, Tim Summers-Scott

Adam Phillips

Bored with Sex?

Elaine Showalter

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Duke, 216 pp., £14.95, March 2003, 0 8223 3015 6
Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory edited by Stephen Barber and David Clark. Routledge, 285 pp., £55, September 2002, 0 415 92818 4

Adam Thorpe

Two Poems

Perry Anderson

Casuistries of Peace and War

Steven Shapin

The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke 1635-1703 by Stephen Inwood. Macmillan, 497 pp., £18.99, September 2002, 0 333 78286 0

Jerry Fodor

Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett. Allen Lane, 347 pp., £20, February 2003, 0 7139 9339 1

James Hamilton-Paterson

Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart. Ebury, 369 pp., £17.99, September 2002, 0 09 187927 2
XTL: Extraterrestrial Life and How to Find It by Simon Goodwin and John Gribbin. Weidenfeld, 191 pp., £12.99, August 2002, 1 84188 193 7

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: Long Haul

Rosemary Hill

Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts by Elizabeth Wilson. Tauris, 288 pp., £11.99, October 2002, 1 86064 782 0
Quentin & Philip by Andrew Barrow. Macmillan, 559 pp., £18.99, November 2002, 0 333 78051 5

Art Spiegelman

‘In the Shadow of No Towers’, episodes 1 & 2: the first instalment of his new comic

Christopher Tayler

Great Dream of Heaven by Sam Shepard. Secker, 142 pp., £10, November 2002, 0 436 20594 7

William Skidelsky

That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx. Fourth Estate, 361 pp., £17.99, January 2003, 0 00 715151 9

Jeremy Noel-Tod

The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill. Penguin, 72 pp., £9.99, September 2002, 0 14 100991 8

Peter Campbell

At the National Gallery: Titian

Peter de Bolla

Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins. Routledge, 272 pp., £14.99, October 2001, 0 415 93713 2

John Burnside

Poem: ‘De Anima’

Daphne Beal

Diary: Code Orange

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