Lavinia Greenlaw

Articles by Lavinia Greenlaw

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Going underground

  • 29 July 2002

Inferno Translated by Michael Palma W W Norton, 400pp, £28 ISBN 039304341X The Inferno of Dante Alighieri Translated by Ciaran Carson Granta, 320pp, £14.99 The Divine Comedy Part I: hell Translated by Dorothy L Sayers Penguin, 352pp, £7.50

Novel of the week

  • 08 July 2002

Clara Janice Galloway Jonathan Cape, 256pp, £10.99 ISBN 0224050494

An enormous yes

  • 20 May 2002

The Birth of Pleasure: a new map of love Carol Gilligan Chatto & Windus, 253pp, £18.99 ISBN 0701162392

The agonised self. Primo Levi, clear-eyed chronicler of horror, survived Auschwitz only to commit suicide in late middle age. Lavinia Greenlaw explores the mysterious life of this "unheroic" Italian

  • 01 April 2002

The Double Bond - Primo Levi: A Biography Carole Angier Viking, 898pp, £25 ISBN 0670883336

The ghost in the machine

  • 11 February 2002

Hidden Minds: A history of the unconscious Frank Tallis Profile Books, 194pp, £16.99 ISBN 186197311X

Sky high

  • 13 March 2000

Sky Nails Jamie McKendrick Faber & Faber, 115pp, £8.99 ISBN 0571201784 Her Book Jo Shapcott Faber & Faber, 125pp, £8.99

Poetry books

  • 29 November 1999

Anthologies of time and space

News of the world. The best verse in English over the past 100 years has, as with fiction, been by writers from beyond these shores. Lavinia Greenlaw maps the poetic century

  • 22 November 1999

The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English Michael Schmidt (editor) Harvill, 728pp, £20 ISBN 1860463517 Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Forbes (editor) Penguin, 596pp, £20

Gale of life

  • 18 October 1999

A Shropshire Lad A E Housman Penguin Poetry First Editions, 88pp, £3.99 ISBN 0140437207 Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems John Keats Penguin Poetry First Editions, 119pp, £3.99

Letting off steam

  • 07 June 1999

Akhenaten Dorothy Porter Serpent's Tail, 300pp, £8.99 Time to Kill Sparrows: a kaleidoscope of verse by diplomats and their families Peter Hinchcliffe (editor) The Book Guild Ltd, 128pp, £14.99 Shakespeare in Love: the love poetry of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare Faber & Faber, 169pp, £4.99

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Cloud control

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Brown at war

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On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

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Film review

A Serious Man

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