Vol. 26 No. 7 · 1 April 2004

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Gilberto Perez

Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 by Colin MacCabe. Bloomsbury, 432 pp., £25, November 2003, 0 7475 6318 7

Letters

Ivor Potts, Mary Elkins, William McCarthy, Jordan Scher, James McCarthy, Joel Kanter, John Roberts, Robert Ball, Colin Buckland

Anne Hollander

Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera. Bloomsbury, 767 pp., £35, October 2003, 9780747566472
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings edited by Janie Lee and Melvin Lader. Abrams, 272 pp., £30, December 2003, 0 87427 135 5

Richard Rorty

Post-Democracy

David Runciman

The Precautionary Principle

Ed Harriman

A Time of Our Choosing: America’s War in Iraq by Todd Purdom. Times, 319 pp., $25, November 2003, 0 8050 7562 3

Peter Clarke

The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown by William Keegan. Wiley, 356 pp., £18.99, October 2003, 0 470 84697 6

Andrew Motion

Poem: ‘The Wave’

John Barrell

The Reptile Oculist

Sara Roy

Short Cuts: The silencing of US academics

Gillian Darley

Ernö Goldfinger: The Life of an Architect by Nigel Warburton. Routledge, 197 pp., £30, November 2003, 0 415 25853 7

John Burnside

Poem: ‘Shapeshifters’

Andrew Saint

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. Bantam, 496 pp., £7.99, April 2004, 0 553 81353 6

Peter Wollen

Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism edited by Matthew Drutt. Guggenheim, 296 pp., $65, June 2003, 0 89207 265 2

Rosalind Krauss

Picasso and the Invention of Cubism by Pepe Karmel. Yale, 233 pp., £40, October 2003, 0 300 09436 1

James Secord

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time by Michael Benton. Thames and Hudson, 336 pp., £16.95, March 2003, 9780500051160

Peter Campbell

In Lille: Rubens

Emily Wilson

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer. Canongate, 238 pp., £9.99, February 2004, 1 84195 478 0

Lorna Scott Fox

Diary: Aznar’s Mistake

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