LiteraryFEBRUARY2000 Review£2.70$6.00

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GOETHE THE GREAT

Daniel Johnson on the Middle Years Lynn Barber is carried away by Caravaggio

Lisa Jardine looks hard at Leonardo

John Drummond scales Stravinsky John Banville on Wainewright the Poisoner Conan Doyle the Spiritualist * Philip Sidney the Courtier

Karen Armstrong on the Reformation John Baen on Brittan's Diet of Brussels HENRY DAVDD THOREAU'S WED FRUITS

FICTION: Giinter Grass, Carol Shields, Stephen Amidon, John Lanchester

Chang-Rae Lee, Tibor Fischer, Douglas Coupland, Joanna Trollope

Plus First Novels by Pankaj Mishra and Zadie Smith VICTORIA GLENDINNING ON THE COUCH WITH NAIM ATTALLAH