Vol. 22 No. 18 · 21 September 2000

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Vol. 22 No. 18 · 21 September 2000

Thomas Powers

I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1933-41 edited by Martin Chalmers. Phoenix, 656 pp., £11.99, May 1999, 0 7538 0684 3
To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1942-45 edited by Martin Chalmers. Phoenix, 704 pp., £8.99, August 2000, 0 7538 1069 7

Letters

Norman Stone, Brian Harrison, Richard Davenport-Hines, Roger Simon, Lewis Nkosi, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Paul Pfalzner, Colin Matthews, Fred Kerner, David Sweden, Marcus Short

Mark Doty

Two Poems

Stephen Greenblatt

The Inevitable Pit

Zachary Leader

Trimalchio: An Early Version of ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by James L.W. West III. Cambridge, 192 pp., £30, April 2000, 0 521 40237 9

Hal Foster

Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture by John Seabrook. Methuen, 215 pp., £9.99, March 2000, 0 413 74470 1

James Davidson

Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray. Hodder, 374 pp., £20, June 2000, 0 340 76770 7

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: statistics and reading

Laura Quinney

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume I edited by Donald Reiman and Neil Fraisat. Johns Hopkins, 494 pp., £58, March 2000, 0 8018 6119 5

Julia Briggs

The Invention of Jane Harrison by Mary Beard. Harvard, 229 pp., £23.50, July 2000, 0 674 00212 1

Joanna Kavenna

May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian by Suzanne Raitt. Oxford, 307 pp., £19.99, April 2001, 0 19 812298 5

Christopher Tayler

Ask the Dust by John Fante. Rebel Inc, 198 pp., £6.99, September 1999, 0 86241 987 5
Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante by Stephen Cooper. Rebel Inc, 406 pp., £16.99, May 2000, 9781841950228

Daniel Soar

White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Hamish Hamilton, 462 pp., £12.99, January 2000, 9780241139974

Jason Harding

George Moore, 1852-1933 by Adrian Frazier. Yale, 604 pp., £29.95, May 2000, 0 300 08245 2

John Upton

Crimewatch UK

Audrey Gillan

The Marked Man

Cynthia Lawford

Diary: On Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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