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10| summer 1999





Editorial

Alan Powers

Undercover surrealism: 
The story of Pollock's Toy Museum

Jonathan Day

Life on the open road: 
Robert Frank's The Americans

Jonathan Bell

Fetishising format: 
The CD and the seven-inch single

Marilynn Gelfman Karp

Loving the unloved: 
A passion for collecting

other things


Laurel Blossom

Freeze-frame
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
American Museum of Natural History, New York
10 April - 11 October 1999

Jonathan Key

Thorsons, London 

Stephen Escritt

Modern or modernist?
Modern Britain 1929-1939
Design Museum, London
20 January - 6 June 1999

Tuva Korsstrom

Cambridge University Press

Rosemary Hill

Mummy of an Egyptian cat
Museum number EA373348
British Museum, London

Esther Leslie

Craft and power
Yale University Press

Andew lessons Biswell, Jonathan Key, David Morley, Peter Davidson

How to make a paper aeroplane

Flora Samuel

Beyond our Ken
Pavilion Books, London

Robert Graves

The devil's advice to storytellers
Poem

Douglas Coupland

The TWA 800 air disaster

Reginald Reynolds

Snack attack
Poem

Samantha Matthews

Dead letters
A ghostly autograph book

Louis de Bernieres

Cat-atonic
Extract from the short story Labels

Liz Boggis

Flash bulb
Anna Pavord - The Tulip
Bloomsbury, London

Viivi Luik

Words for words
Extract from the novel Ajaloo ilu (The beauty of history)
Translated from the Estonian by Hildi Hawkins

Charles Barclay

Wings of desire
Channel 4 Books, London

David Greenslade

Cardboard box
Poem

Laurel Blossom

Souvenirs of the Shackleton Exhibition
American Museum of Natural History, New York

Hildi Hawkins

What we can know
Poem

Hugh Pearman

Revisiting Berlin's military airport

Philip Graham

Confessions of a collector
Extract from How to Read an Unwritten Language

Rosemary Hill

The henge at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk

Eva Hills

Cock-a-do-dle-doo
The Zeppelin raid of 23 September 1916

Hildi Hawkins

Elliott Erwitt - Dogdogs
Phaidon Press, London

B. Rimanov, Military Personnel, Vitebsk

Chris van Scheltinga

Sceptre, London

Sophie Hannah

Mountains out of small hills
Poem

Jonathan Bell

Plane sailing?
Chris Burden: When Robots Rule: The Two-Minute Aeroplane Factory
Tate Gallery, London
18 March - 18 July 1999

'n'
From the collections of Marilynne Gelfman Karp

Lisa Hirst

Peace on earth?
From the Bomb to the Beatles
Imperial War Museum, London
25 March 1999 - 29 May 2000

Leena Krohn

The son of the chimera
Short story from Pereat mundus. Romaani, ernlainen 
(Pereat mundus. A novel, sort of)
Translated from the Finnish by Hildi Hawkins