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Vol. 26 No. 15 · 5 August 2004
Edward Said
Thoughts on Late Style
Letters
Malcolm Coad, Simon Darragh, Mary Kenny, David Turner, Mark Mabberley, Mike Killingworth, John Gittings, Christopher Wintle, Denis Fairfax, John Bourn, Thomas Venning, Martin Hardcastle, Frank Ledwith, David Craig, Hugo Williams
Jerry Fodor
Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner’s ‘Ring’ by Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht. Oxford, 241 pp., £14.99, April 2004, 0 19 517359 7
Frank Kermode
Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe. Picador, 486 pp., £20, June 2004, 9780330350488 ‘Trawl’, ‘Albert Angelo’ and ‘House Mother Normal’ by B.S. Johnson. Picador, 472 pp., £14.99, June 2004, 0 330 35332 2
Mark Ford
Poem: ‘The Passing of the Passenger Pigeon’
Andrew O’Hagan
Gielgud's Letters edited by Richard Mangan. Weidenfeld, 564 pp., £20, March 2004, 0 297 82989 0 Secret Dreams: A Biography of Michael Redgrave by Alan Strachan. Weidenfeld, 484 pp., £25, April 2004, 0 297 60764 2
Steven Shapin
Dr Atkins’ New Diet Revolution: The No-Hunger, Luxurious Weight Loss Plan that Really Works! by Robert C. Atkins. Vermilion, 542 pp., £7.99, January 2003, 0 09 188948 0 Atkins for Life: The Next Level, Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health by Robert C. Atkins. Pan, 456 pp., £7.99, December 2003, 0 330 41846 7 The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston. Headline, 278 pp., £10.99, May 2003, 0 7553 1129 9
Charles Simic
Two Poems
David Runciman
Profiles, Probabilities and Stereotypes by Frederick Schauer. Harvard, 359 pp., £19.95, February 2004, 0 674 01186 4 The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few by James Surowiecki. Little, Brown, 295 pp., £16.99, June 2004, 0 316 86173 1
John Sturrock
Short Cuts: reading Butler
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff
Suspicion of Terrorism
Alex de Waal
Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap
Maurice Keen
The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory and Colonialism in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett. Princeton, 168 pp., £16.95, April 2004, 0 691 11719 5
Christopher Tayler
Snow by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely. Faber, 436 pp., £12.99, May 2004, 0 571 22065 7
Peter Campbell
At the National Gallery: Russian landscapes
Benjamin Markovits
Big If by Mark Costello. Atlantic, 315 pp., £10.99, February 2004, 9781843542179
Jenny Diski
Diary: in New Zealand
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