Vol. 20 No. 12 · 18 June 1998

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Vol. 20 No. 12 · 18 June 1998

David Bromwich

The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style by Tom Paulin

Letters

Alan Bennett, Marian Sugden, Peter Womack, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Robb, Jenny Hinton, Mervyn Williams, Martin Beagles, Susan Ryley Hoyle, Keith Flett

Ian Hamilton

Guide to Literary Prizes, 1998 edited by Huw Molseed
The Cost of Letters: A Survey of Literary Living Standards edited by Andrew Holgate and Honor Wilson-Fletcher

Lorna Sage

The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Vol I edited by Margaret Scott
The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Vol II edited by Margaret Scott

John Sturrock

Lake by Jean Echenoz, translated by Guido Waldman
Un An by Jean Echenoz

Mary Beard

Hadrian: The Restless Emperor by Anthony Birley

Adam Phillips

The Poems of A.E. Housman edited by Archie Burnett
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard

Penelope Fitzgerald

Father of the Bensons: The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbiship of Canterbury by Geoffrey Palmer and Noel Lloyd

Eqbal Ahmad

The Terrorist Prince: Life and Death of Murtaza Bhutto by Raja Anwar, translated by Khalid Hasan
Memoirs of a Bystander: A Life in Diplomacy by Iqbal Akhund
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Pakistan by Rafi Raza

Benedict Anderson

Soaking in Luang Prabang

Edwin Morgan

Two Poems

James Davidson

Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece by Andrew Stewart

Marina Warner

Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society by Jean-Claude Schmitt, translated by Theresa Lavender Fagan

A.L. Kennedy

Cries Unheard by Gitta Sereny

John Mullan

The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the 18th Century by John Brewer

Tom Paulin

Diary: The Belfast agreement

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