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Vol. 22 No. 19 · 5 October 2000
Edward Luttwak
Truckers’ Tantrums
Letters
Julian Roach, Glen Newey, Anatol Lieven, Jamie Wetherall, Martha Nell Smith
Andrew O’Hagan
Boswell's Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman. Hamish Hamilton, 352 pp., £17.99, November 2000, 0 241 13637 7 James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: Research Edition: Vol. II edited by Bruce Redford and Elizabeth Goldring. Edinburgh, 303 pp., £50, February 2000, 0 7486 0606 8 Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author by Lawrence Lipking. Harvard, 372 pp., £11.50, March 2000, 0 674 00198 2 Dr Johnson's London by Liza Picard. Weidenfeld, 362 pp., £20, July 2000, 0 297 84218 8
William Gass
The Book of Prefaces edited by Alasdair Gray. Bloomsbury, 639 pp., £35, May 2000, 0 7475 4443 3
Charles Simic
Two Poems
Elizabeth Lowry
Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) by Anne Carson. Princeton, 147 pp., £18.95, July 1999, 0 691 03677 2 Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson. Cape, 149 pp., £10, July 1999, 0 224 05973 4
Patrick McGuinness
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy. Picador, 76 pp., £6.99, September 2000, 9780330372220 Her Book: Poems 1988-98 by Jo Shapcott. Faber, 125 pp., £8.99, October 1999, 0 571 20183 0 Zero Gravity by Gwyneth Lewis. Bloodaxe, 80 pp., £6.95, June 1998, 1 85224 456 9
Thomas Laqueur
Proximity to Death by William McFeely. Norton, 206 pp., £17.95, January 2000, 0 393 04819 5 Death Row: The Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment edited by Bonnie Bobit. Bobit, 311 pp., $24.95, September 1999, 0 9624857 6 4
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: National Poetry Day
Peter Campbell
At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Gerrit Dou
Tom Lowenstein
Poem: ‘From ‘The Structure of Days Out’’
Margaret Anne Doody
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Bloomsbury, 521 pp., £16.99, September 2000, 0 7475 4937 0
E.S. Turner
A Monkey among Crocodiles: The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of Mrs Georgina Weldon by Brian Thompson. HarperCollins, 304 pp., £19.99, June 2000, 0 00 257189 7
Murray Sayle
The Masterpiece: Jørn Utzon, a Secret Life by Philip Drew. Hardie Grant, 574 pp., AUS $39.95, October 1999, 1 86498 047 8 Jørn Utzon: The Sydney Opera House by Françoise Fromonot, translated by Christopher Thompson. Electa/Gingko, 236 pp., £37.45, January 1998, 3 927258 72 5
Anne Enright
Diary: My Milk
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