Vol. 23 No. 23 · 29 November 2001

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Vol. 23 No. 23 · 29 November 2001

Nicholas Penny

Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter. Macmillan, 590 pp., £20, November 2001, 0 333 63350 4

Letters

Colm Tóibín, Geoffrey O’Brien, Denis McQuail, Richard Taruskin, Mark Rose, Anura Fernando, Lesley Chamberlain, Paul Winstanley, Samuel Wong, Frank Dux, Julie Beddoes, Adam Elgar, Joseph Forte, Andrew Rawlinson, Bernard Wasserstein, Chris Miller, Charmian Cannon, Paul Denman, Bill Sanderson, Richard Davies, Anthony Rudolf

P.N. Furbank

Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall by Paul Bailey. Hamish Hamilton, 242 pp., £14.99, October 2001, 0 241 13455 2

Conor Gearty

Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention by A.W.B. Simpson. Oxford, 1176 pp., £40, June 2001, 0 19 826289 2

Hal Foster

Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping by Rem Koolhaas et al. Taschen, 800 pp., £30, December 2001, 3 8228 6047 6
Great Leap Forward by Rem Koolhaas et al. Taschen, 720 pp., £30, December 2001, 3 8228 6048 4

Gillian Darley

In Ruins by Christopher Woodward. Chatto, 280 pp., £12.99, September 2001, 9780701168964

Robert Crawford

Three poems

Adam Phillips

The Soul of Man under Psychoanalysis

Thomas Jones

Short Cuts: friendsreunited.com

Helen Vendler

Soft Sift by Mark Ford. Faber, 42 pp., £7.99, May 2001, 0 571 20781 2

Hugh Pennington

Woolsorters’ Disease

Miles Taylor

The Chartist Movement in Britain 1838-50 edited by Gregory Claeys. Pickering & Chatto, £495, April 2001, 1 85196 330 8

Peter Campbell

At the National Gallery: Pisanello

Robert Macfarlane

The Search for the Panchen Lama by Isabel Hilton. Penguin, 336 pp., £7.99, August 2001, 0 14 024670 3

Catherine Merridale

Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia 1804-24 by Aleksandr Nikitenko, translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson. Yale, 228 pp., £20, June 2001, 0 300 08414 5

Christopher Tayler

Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah. Atlantic, 336 pp., £9.99, September 2001, 1 903809 16 9

Cristina Nehring

Blue Angel by Francine Prose. Allison and Busby, 314 pp., £12.99, June 2001, 0 7490 0580 7

Kathleen Jamie

Diary: Whale Watching

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