Vol. 14 No. 20 · 22 October 1992
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Vol. 14 No. 20 · 22 October 1992
Ian Hamilton
The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin edited by Anthony Thwaite. Faber, 759 pp., £20, October 1992, 0 571 15197 3
Letters
Terry O’Shaughnessy, Christopher Ricks, Ashley Tauchert, Padraig O Conchuir, Keith Flett, Jackie Latham, William Lamont, M.F. Burnyeat
Frank Kermode
The Jew’s Body by Sander Gilman. Routledge, 303 pp., £10.99, September 1992, 0 415 90459 5 Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend by John Gross. Chatto, 355 pp., £18, September 1992, 0 7011 3523 9 Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading by Alan Sinfield. Oxford, 365 pp., £27.50, September 1992, 0 19 811983 6
Norman Dombey and Eric Grove
Britain’s Thermonuclear Bluff
Paul Foot
Nuclear Ambiguity: The Vanunu Affair by Yoel Cohen. Sinclair-Stevenson, 297 pp., £10.99, July 1992, 1 85619 150 8
Christopher Hitchens
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson. Faber, 893 pp., £25, September 1992, 0 571 16858 2
John Lloyd
Soviet Politics, 1917-1991 by Mary McAuley. Oxford, 132 pp., £20, September 1992, 0 19 878066 4 What went wrong with perestroika? by Marshall Goldman. Norton, 282 pp., £12.95, January 1992, 0 393 03071 7 Boris Yeltsin: A Political Biography by Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova. Weidenfeld, 320 pp., £18.99, April 1992, 0 297 81252 1
Perry Anderson
The British Constitution Now by Ferdinand Mount. Heinemann, 289 pp., £18.50, April 1992, 0 434 47994 2 Constitutional Reform by Robert Brazier. Oxford, 172 pp., £22.50, September 1991, 0 19 876257 7 Anatomy of Thatcherism by Shirley Letwin. Fontana, 364 pp., £6.99, October 1992, 0 00 686243 8
Edward Pearce
Beaverbrook by Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie. Hutchinson, 589 pp., £20, October 1992, 0 09 173549 1
Michael Mason
Predicaments of Love by Miriam Benn. Pluto, 342 pp., £35, September 1992, 0 7453 0528 8 Love in the Time of Victoria by Françoise Barret-Ducrocq, translated by John Howe. Verso, 225 pp., £24.95, August 1992, 0 86091 325 2
C.H. Sisson
Poem: ‘For Charles Worlock, transported to Australia, 1842’
John Bayley
Stephen Spender: A Portrait with Background by Hugh David. Heinemann, 308 pp., £17.50, October 1992, 0 434 17506 4 More Please: An Autobiography by Barry Humphries. Viking, 331 pp., £16.99, September 1992, 0 670 84008 4
Graham Coster
Hell’s Foundations: A Town, its Myths and Gallipoli by Geoffrey Moorhouse. Hodder, 256 pp., £19.99, April 1992, 0 340 43044 3
Sherry Turkle
Diary: The Hillary Wars
Julian Loose
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton. Century, 364 pp., £14.99, June 1992, 0 7126 5320 1 Off Centre: Power and Culture Relations between Japan and the United States by Masao Miyoshi. Harvard, 289 pp., £22.95, December 1992, 0 674 63175 7 Underground in Japan by Rey Ventura. Cape, 204 pp., £7.99, April 1992, 0 224 03550 9
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