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Vol. 20 No. 8 · 16 April 1998
Benedict Anderson
From Miracle to Crash
Letters
Joseph Nuttgens, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Martin Evans, K.W.C. Sinclair-Loutit, J. Elfenbein, W.W. Aylward, John Hannon, Haim Gaifman
Ross McKibbin
Whatever Happened to the Tories: The Conservatives since 1945 by Ian Gilmour and Mark Garnett. Fourth Estate, 448 pp., £25, October 1997, 1 85702 475 3
James Wood
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd. Chatto, 435 pp., £20, March 1998, 1 85619 711 5
Terry Eagleton
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture by Jonathan Dollimore. Allen Lane, 380 pp., £25, April 1998, 0 7139 9125 9
Frank Kermode
The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore edited by Bonnie Costello and Celeste Goodridge et al. Faber, 597 pp., £30, April 1998, 0 571 19354 4
Joyce Carol Oates
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley Virago, 398 pp., £12.99, January 1998, 1 86049 423 4
John Burnside
Poem: ‘Settlements’
William Fiennes
Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell. Cape, 200 pp., £9.99, October 1997, 0 224 05107 5
Margaret Visser
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky. Cape, 294 pp., £12.99, March 1998, 0 224 05104 0
Stephen Mills
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda Lear. Allen Lane, 634 pp., £25, March 1998, 0 7139 9236 0
James Davidson
Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenblum. Absolute, 320 pp., £14.95, November 1997, 1 899791 36 1
Helen Cooper
The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy by Odile Redon and Françoise Sabban, translated by Edward Schneider. Chicago, 324 pp., £25.95, September 1998, 0 226 70684 2
Stephen Wall
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. IX: 1859-61 edited by Graham Storey. Oxford, 610 pp., £70, July 1997, 0 19 812293 4
Zachary Leader
Diary: Oscar Talk at the Huntington
John Sutherland
Sugar and Spice: A Black Lace Short Story Collection edited by Kerri Sharp. Black Lace, 292 pp., £7.99, October 1997, 0 352 33227 1 Ménage by Emma Holly. Black Lace, 261 pp., £5.99, January 1998, 9780352332318
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