July 2002 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | Art & Artists | History | Sex & Sleep | General Biography Roger Scruton A New Human World Janacek By Mirka Zemanova LR Art & Artists Charles Saumarez Smith He Knew What He Liked The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Art and Taste By E H Gombrich LR History M E Yapp The Lure of Comfort What Went Wrong? The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East By Bernard Lewis LR Sex & Sleep Kathryn Hughes She is Editor of the Esteemed ‘Art Press’ The Sexual Life of Catherine M By Catherine Millet LR General Jessica Mann An Invisible Bullet The Man Who Lost His Language By Sheila Hale LR
Charles Saumarez Smith He Knew What He Liked The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Art and Taste By E H Gombrich LR
M E Yapp The Lure of Comfort What Went Wrong? The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East By Bernard Lewis LR
Kathryn Hughes She is Editor of the Esteemed ‘Art Press’ The Sexual Life of Catherine M By Catherine Millet LR
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