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  1. The business of the poor

    THE SOLIDARITIES OF STRANGERS. The English poor laws and the people, 1700 1948. By Lynn Hollen Lees. 373pp. Cambridge University Press. Pounds 45. - 0 521 57261 4. In 1829, Harriet Williams, a widow...

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  2. Napoleon's escort

    COCKBURN AND THE BRITISH NAVY IN TRANSITION. Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 1772-1853. By Roger Morriss. 338pp. University of Exeter Press. Pounds 35. - 0 85989 526 2. Sir George Cockburn is remembered...

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  3. Distiller at work

    THREADS OF TIME. A memoir. By Peter Brook. 241pp. Methuen. Pounds 17.99. - 0 413 69620 0. Not long after the formation of the International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris, Peter Brook took his...

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  4. Memories are remade of this

    REMIND ME WHO I AM, AGAIN. By Linda Grant. 301pp. Granta. Pounds 14.99. - 1 86207 171 3. Remind Me Who I Am, Again is about senile dementia, which seems to have replaced anorexia as the most written-...

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  5. Biography

    EDWARD HOPPER. An intimate biography. By Gail Levin. 695pp. Berkeley: University of California Press. Paperback, $19.95. - 0 520 21475 7. The word "intimate" has a slightly tawdry quality. In...

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  6. Cultural Studies

    A CENTURY OF ARTS AND LETTERS. John Updike, editor. 346pp. New York: Columbia University Press; distributed in the UK by Wiley. Pounds 32.50. - 0 231 10248 8. It is the centenary of the American...

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  7. Literature

    CONTEMPORARY JEWISH WRITING IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND. An anthology. Bryan Cheyette, editor. 336pp. Halban. Pounds 25 (paperback, Pounds 10.99). - 1 870015 68 1. Launching a series entitled Jewish...

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  8. Politics

    THE TRIAL OF DEMOCRACY. Black suffrage and northern Republicans, 1860-1910 411pp. By Xi Wang. Athens: University of Georgia Press; distributed in the UK by Eurospan. Pounds 51.95. - 0 8203 1837 X....

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  9. Social Studies

    WHERE THERE IS EVIL. By Sandra Brown. 312pp. Macmillan. Pounds 16.99. - 0 333 72185 3. In 1992, Sandra Brown found herself suddenly faced with the claim that her father was a child murderer. Brown...

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  10. Dick Bird

    NEVER THE SAME AGAIN. A history of the VSO. 206pp. Cambridge: Lutterworth. Pounds 25 (paperback, Pounds 15). - 0 7188 2975 1. I am sure young Americans would learn a good deal in this country...

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  11. Author, Author

    Readers are invited to identify the sources of the three quotations which follow, and to send us the answers so that they reach this office not later than July 17. A prize of Pounds 20 is offered for...

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  12. Listings

    ARCHITECTURE. Bradley, Simon, and Nikolaus Pevsner London: The city churches (The Buildings of London, vol 1) Penguin. 160pp, illus. Pounds 9.99 (paperback). 0 14 071100 7. 25/6/98 Schildt, Goran;...

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  13. John Rawls and Jacques Derrida

    (Photograph) - John Rawls, Harvard, 1990, and Jacques Derrida, Paris, 1990; from Philosophers, photographs by Steve Pyke (168pp. Manchester: Cornerhouse. Paperback, Pounds 13.95. 0 94879 76 2)

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  14. Studs u like

    After years giving voice to the voiceless via radio and lauded oral histories, Studs Terkel tells Huw Richards he still can't work a tape recorder You know," said the elderly black woman he found...

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  15. Withering on the divine

    Steven Weinberg has his own ideas about the origins of the universe and, as he tells Andrew Robinson, they have nothing to do with God Among scientists, the particle physicist and cosmologist Steven...

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