December 2002 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Pulpit | Literary biography | Foreign Parts, Russia | Fiction Pulpit Roger Scruton Language and Ideology LR Literary biography Daniel Johnson A Colossus Among Pygmies Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art – A Biography By Hermann Kurzke (Translated by Leslie Willson) LR Adam Sisman Sacrificed Genius to Respectability Wordsworth: A Life in Letters By Juliet Barker LR Foreign Parts, Russia John Lloyd That Sinking Feeling Russia: Experiment With A People By Robert Service Kursk: Russia's Lost Pride By Peter Truscott LR Fiction James Morrison Shaken and Stirred After the Quake By Haruki Murakami LR
Daniel Johnson A Colossus Among Pygmies Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art – A Biography By Hermann Kurzke (Translated by Leslie Willson) LR
John Lloyd That Sinking Feeling Russia: Experiment With A People By Robert Service Kursk: Russia's Lost Pride By Peter Truscott LR
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