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Vol. 2 No. 4 · 6 March 1980
David Marquand
What’s wrong with Britain
Letters
Glyn Ford, George Watson, Patrick Parrinder, Ken Follett, Nicholas Jacobs, Matthew Hoffman
John Passmore
Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank Manuel. Blackwell, 896 pp., £19.50, November 1979, 9780631123613
Bernard Williams
Rubbish Theory by Michael Thompson. Oxford, 229 pp., £7.50, July 1979, 0 19 217658 7
Theodore Zeldin
Recollections and Reflections of a Country Policeman by W.C. May. A.H. Stockwell (Ilfracombe), 342 pp., £6.60, July 1979, 0 7223 1199 0 The Police in Society by Ben Whitaker. Eyre Methuen, 351 pp., £6.95, March 1979, 9780413342003
Christopher Reid
Poem: ‘A Disaffected Old Man’
Christopher Ricks
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer. Hutchinson, 1056 pp., £8.85, November 1979, 0 09 139540 2
Ian Hamilton
Breaking Ranks by Norman Podhoretz. Weidenfeld, 385 pp., £7.95, February 1980, 0 297 77733 5
Graham Hough
Thomas Stearns Eliot, Poet by A.D. Moddy. Cambridge, 365 pp., £12.50, March 1979, 0 521 22065 3 Theory and Personality: the Significance of T.S. Eliot’s Criticism by Brian Lee. Athlone, 148 pp., £9.95, November 1979, 0 485 11185 3
V.S. Pritchett
Rochet and Chimère
Karl Miller
Barbara Pym’s Hymn
Michael Irwin
Wrinkles by Charles Simmons. Alison Press/Secker, 182 pp., £4.95, January 1980, 9780436464904 Devotion by Botho Strauss, translated by Sophie Wilkins. Chatto, 120 pp., £5.50, January 1980, 0 7011 2421 0 The Followed Man by Thomas Williams. Sidgwick, 352 pp., £5.95, January 1980, 9780399900259 Reverse Negative by André Jute. Secker, 264 pp., £5.95, January 1980, 0 436 22980 3
Angela Carter
Angela Carter responds to Bertolucci’s movie, ‘La Luna’
Geoffrey Strickland
Comparative Criticism: A Yearbook edited by E.S. Shaffer. Cambridge, 327 pp., £12.50, November 1979, 0 521 22296 6
Rosalind Mitchison
A System of Social Science: Papers relating to Adam Smith by Andrew Skinner. Oxford, 278 pp., £9.75, November 1979, 0 19 828422 5
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