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Contents

Vol. 20 No. 6   ·   19 March 1998

What did they name the dog?

Wendy Doniger: Twins

  • Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery of Identity by Lawrence Wright

The Horrors of Heathrow

Ian Gilmour at the Terminal 5 Enqiry

Sherry Turkle: The Seduction Theory

  • Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory by Ian Hacking

Letters

Paul Seabright, Michael Meadmore, Lorne Loxterkamp, Christopher Hitchens, Arthur Schlesinger Jr

John Sutherland on Matthew Arnold

  • A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold by Ian Hamilton

Sandra Gilbert on D.H. Lawrence

  • D.H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-30 by David Ellis

Penelope Fitzgerald on Humbert Wolfe

  • Harlequin in Whitehall: A Life of Humbert Wolfe by Philip Bagguley

Jeremy Waldron

  • Seeing a Colour-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race by Patricia Williams
  • Colour Conscious: The Political Morality of Race by Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann
  • Race: The History of an Idea in the West by Ivan Hannaford

Mark Ford

Olivier Todd on the end of French Algeria

  • The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War (1954-62)

Timothy Garton Ash on delatology

  • Accusatory Practices: Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989 edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Gellately

Hilary Mantel on Idi Amin (Dada)

  • The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

Alexander Star

  • Purple America by Rick Moody

Alexander Murray

  • The Autumn of the Middle Ages by John Huizinga, translated by Rodney Payton

Frank Kermode

Peter Campbell

  • Bonnard by Timothy Hyman
  • Bonnard by Sarah Whitfield and John Elderfield

Iain Sinclair on the Great Ian Penman

  • Vital Signs by Ian Penman

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What did they name the dog?
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