Vol. 16 No. 7 · 7 April 1994

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Edward Luttwak

Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future

Letters

Naomi Mitchison, Harry Kemp, Salman Rushdie, Norman Cohn, Malcolm Coad, Dave Feickert, Ed Horton, English Showalter, A.T. Tolley, Colin McGinn

Paul Smith

The Laurel and the Ivy: The Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism by Robert Kee. Hamish Hamilton, 659 pp., £20, November 1993, 0 241 12858 7
The Parnell Split 1890-91 by Frank Callanan. Cork, 327 pp., £35, November 1992, 0 902561 63 4

Fleur Adcock

Poem: ‘Iphis’

Stephen Sedley

Suing Judges: A Study of Judicial Immunity by Abimbola Olowofoyeku. Oxford, 234 pp., £27.50, December 1993, 0 19 825793 7
The Independence of the Judiciary: The View from the Lord Chancellor’s Office by Robert Stevens. Oxford, 221 pp., £25, November 1993, 0 19 825815 1

Harold Bloom

Poetry and Pragmatism by Richard Poirier. Faber, 228 pp., £20, November 1992, 0 571 16617 2

Marina Warner

Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany by David Blackhourn. Oxford, 463 pp., £40, December 1993, 0 19 821783 8

John North

Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Vol II: Historical Chronology by Anthony Grafton. Oxford, 766 pp., £65, December 1993, 0 19 920601 5

Nicholas Penny

Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance by John Shearman. Princeton, 281 pp., £35, October 1992, 0 691 09972 3

John Barrell

Hogarth. Vol. I: The ‘Modern Moral Subject’, 1697-1732 by Ronald Paulson. Lutterworth, 411 pp., £35, May 1992, 0 7188 2854 2

Mary Beard

On the Museum’s Ruins by Douglas Crimp. MIT, 348 pp., £24.95, November 1993, 0 262 03209 0

D.J. Enright

A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr. Sinclair-Stevenson, 608 pp., £25, February 1994, 1 85619 249 0

Lorna Sage

Monkey’s Uncle by Jenny Diski. Weidenfeld, 258 pp., £14.99, March 1994, 0 297 84061 4

Janette Turner Hospital

The Rest of Life by Mary Gordon. Bloomsbury, 257 pp., £15.99, January 1994, 0 7475 1675 8

John Sutherland

What’s Wrong with America by Scott Bradfield. Picador, 196 pp., £14.99, January 1994, 0 330 32249 4
The History of Luminous Motion by Scott Bradfield. Picador, 196 pp., £5.99, January 1994, 0 330 33412 3
Greetings from Earth by Scott Bradfield. Picador, 296 pp., £5.99, January 1994, 0 330 32252 4

Peter Campbell

Inside Culture by David Halle. Chicago, 261 pp., £23.95, January 1993, 0 226 31367 0
Buildings of the United States: The Buildings of Michigan by Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Oxford, 603 pp., £27.50, June 1993, 0 19 506149 7
Buildings of the United States: The Buildings of Iowa by David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim. Oxford, 565 pp., £27.50, June 1993, 0 19 506148 9

Martin Pawley

Frank Lloyd Wright. The Lost Years, 1910-1922: A Study of Influences by Anthony Alofsin. Chicago, 456 pp., £43.95, March 1994, 0 226 01366 9

Jenny Diski

Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham. Sidgwick, 368 pp., £16.99, September 1993, 9780283061578

Edward Said

Diary: Reflections on the Hebron Massacre

Stefan Collini

After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain edited by Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler. Routledge, 265 pp., £40, February 1994, 0 415 07056 2

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