Vol. 2 No. 14 · 17 July 1980

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Vol. 2 No. 14 · 17 July 1980

Bernard Williams

The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
Nihilism and Culture by Johan Goudsblom

Alan Coren

Thy Neighbour’s Wife by Gay Talese

Letters

A.D. Carstairs, Michael Morten, Allen Morris, Guy Bentham, James Greene

Paul Addison

Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History by Deborah Wormell

Frank Kermode

Conrad in the 19th Century by Ian Watt

Richard Poirier

Imagining America by Peter Conrad

Bob Scribner

The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany by Michael Baxandall

Patrick Wormald

The Vikings by James Graham-Campbell and D. Kidd
The Viking World edited by James Graham-Campbell
The Northern World edited by David Wilson
Vikings! by Magnus Magnusson
The Vikings by Johannes Bronsted
Viking Age Sculpture by Richard Bailey
The Viking Age in Denmark by Klaus Randsborg

Hugo Williams

Poem: ‘Sonny Jim in Love’

Ruth Fainlight

Poem: ‘Lost Drawing’

Roy Porter

Arguments within English Marxism by Perry Anderson
Capitalism, State Formation and Marxist Theory edited by Philip Corrigan
Writing by Candlelight by E.P. Thompson

Tom Nairn

Tom Nairn continues his examination of recent attempts to find in Gramsci’s writings a basis for left-wing opposition to Communism

John Sutherland

Duffy by Dan Kavanagh
Moscow Gold by John Salisbury
The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble
The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Gordon Haight

Gordon Haight’s speech in Westminster Abbey on 21 June, when a memorial stone to George Eliot was unveiled

Barbara Strang

The Language-Makers by Roy Harris
Beyond the Letter: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Metaphor in Language by Israel Scheffler
Linguistic Perspectives on Literature edited by Marvin Ching, Michael Haley and Ronald Lunsford

Alan Bell

The Wanton Chase by Peter Quennell

Patricia Beer

The Odd Women by George Gissing
The Beth Book by Sarah Grand

Judy Dunn

Babyshock edited by John Cobb
Infancy by Martin Richards
Childhood by Sheldon White and Barbara Notkin White

Joan Aiken

Orphans

Emma Tennant

‘Clever Gretchen’ and Other Forgotten Folktales by Alison Luire

Derwent May

Poem: ‘Today’

Nicholas Tucker

The Lord of Greenwich by Juliet Dymoke
A Flight of Swans by Barbara Willard
Fanny and the Battle of Potter’s Piece by Penelope Lively
John Diamond by Leon Garfield
Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter
I was there by Hans Peter Richter
The Time of the Young Soldiers by Hans Peter Richter
The Runaway Train by Penelope Farmer

Gillian Avery

Racism and Sexism in Children’s Books edited by Judith Stinton
Babies need books by Dorothy Butler

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