Vol. 24 No. 2 · 14 January 2002

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Vol. 24 No. 2 · 14 January 2002

Dan Jacobson

You Muddy Fools

Letters

Paul Genova, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, T.H. Barrett, Max Crawford, David Seddon, J. Behar, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Robin Milner-Gulland, Bill Gilmour, James Davidson, Alan O’Brien, Chris Miller, E.S. Turner

Ian Hamilton

Two Poems

Bernard Porter

Churchill: A Study in Greatness by Geoffrey Best. Hambledon, 370 pp., £19.95, May 2001, 1 85285 253 4
Churchill by Roy Jenkins. Macmillan, 1002 pp., £30, October 2001, 0 333 78290 9

Richard Prior and Trevor Wilson

Lord Kitchener and Winston Churchill: The Dardanelles Commission Part I, 1914-15  Stationery Office, 218 pp., £6.99, April 2000, 0 11 702423 6
Defeat at Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Commission Part II, 1915-16  Stationery Office, 319 pp., £6.99, September 2000, 0 11 702455 4

John Sturrock

Short Cuts: Editions de minuit

Frank Kermode

Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the 17th to the 19th Century by Alain Cabantous, translated by Eric Rauth. Columbia, 288 pp., £21.50, February 2002, 0 231 11876 7

Jonathan Rée

Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan Israel. Oxford, 810 pp., £30, February 2001, 0 19 820608 9

Steven Shapin

Return to Reason by Stephen Toulmin. Harvard, 243 pp., £16.95, June 2001, 0 674 00495 7

Peter Campbell

At the National Gallery: Goya

Sophie Harrison

The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer. Bloomsbury, 270 pp., £16.99, September 2001, 0 7475 5427 7

August Kleinzahler

Poem: ‘The Art Farm’

Miranda Carter

Robert Mitchum: Solid, Dad, Crazy by Damien Love. Batsford, 208 pp., £15.99, December 2001, 0 7134 8707 0
Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don’t Care by Lee Server. Faber, 590 pp., £20, October 2001, 0 571 20994 7
McQueen: The Biography by Christopher Sandford. HarperCollins, 497 pp., £16.99, October 2001, 0 00 257195 1

Paul Henley

Diary: The EU

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