Vol. 22 No. 24 · 14 December 2000

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Vol. 22 No. 24 · 14 December 2000

Hugh Pennington

The BSE Inquiry by Lord Phillips et al. Stationery Office, 5112 pp., £324.50, October 2000, 0 10 556986 0

Letters

Andrew Taylor, Alan Bennett, Janet Todd, Charles Plouviez, Roy Foster, Joe Morison, David Brauner, Anita McBride, Michael Moorcock, J.L. Nelson, Jim Forrest

Ian Hamilton

Diaries: Into Politics by Alan Clark. Weidenfeld, 389 pp., £20, October 2000, 0 297 64402 5
The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists edited by Irene Taylor and Alan Taylor. Canongate, 684 pp., £25, November 2000, 0 86241 920 4
The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt. Vol. III: From Major to Blair edited by Sarah Curtis. Macmillan, 823 pp., £25, November 2000, 9780333774069

Edward Said

Palestinians under Siege

Peter Riley

Poem: ‘After Dinner’

Terry Castle

Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella. Nebraska, 127 pp., £13.50, August 2000, 0 8032 1046 9

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: bookshops

August Kleinzahler

An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan. Rebel Inc, 110 pp., £12, July 2000, 1 84195 023 8
Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-70 by Richard Brautigan. Rebel Inc, 146 pp., £6.99, June 2000, 1 84195 027 0
You Can't Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan. Rebel Inc, 209 pp., £14.99, July 2000, 1 84195 025 4

Jessica Olin

Like Normal People by Karen Bender. Picador, 269 pp., £10, October 2000, 9780330373791

Gilberto Perez

Stroheim by Arthur Lennig. Kentucky, 514 pp., £25, December 1999, 0 8131 2138 8
The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini by Tag Gallagher. Da Capo, 802 pp., £16.95, October 1998, 0 306 80873 0

David A. Bell

Englishness Identified: Manners and Character, 1650-1850 by Paul Langford. Oxford, 389 pp., £25, April 2000, 9780198206811

Frank Kermode

At Tate Britain: William Blake

E.S. Turner

How the English Made the Alps by Jim Ring. Murray, 287 pp., £19.99, September 2000, 0 7195 5689 9
Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming. Granta, 398 pp., £20, November 2000, 1 86207 379 1

R.W. Johnson

Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56 edited by Elizabeth Hodgkin and Michael Wolfers. Haan, 224 pp., £18.95, October 2000, 9781874209881

Peter Campbell

Indigo by Jenny Balfour-Paul. British Museum, 264 pp., £19.99, October 2000, 0 7141 2550 4
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World by Simon Garfield. Faber, 222 pp., £9.99, September 2000, 0 571 20197 0

David Craig

Time by Andy Goldsworthy. Thames and Hudson, 203 pp., £35, August 2000, 0 500 51026 1

Joseph Farrell

Diary: In Palermo

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