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Vol. 2 No. 6 · 3 April 1980
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Daughters, Dress Shirts, Spotted Dick
Letters
Ezekeil Emanuel, Charles Hope, Eric Homberger, Michael Sidnell, Simon Kunitz, A.D. Moody, Brigid Brophy, Blair Worden
Mary McCarthy
Ideas and the Novel: Henry James and some others
Clive James
Critical Understanding by Wayne Booth. Chicago, 400 pp., £14, September 1979, 0 226 06554 5
Neal Ascherson
The Last Word: An Eye-Witness Account of the Thorpe Trial by Auberon Waugh. Joseph, 240 pp., £6.50, February 1980, 0 7181 1799 9
Dan Gillon
The Question of Palestine by Edward Said. Routledge, 265 pp., £7.50, February 1980, 0 7100 0498 2
Marilyn Butler
A Fantasy of Reason: The Life and Thought of William Godwin by Don Locke. Routledge, 398 pp., £13.50, January 1980, 0 7100 0387 0
Antonia Fraser
The House of Stuart by Maurice Ashley. Dent, 237 pp., £9.95, January 1980, 0 460 04458 3
Peter Burke
Rabelais by M.A. Screech. Duckworth, 494 pp., £35, November 1979, 9780715609705
Graham Hough
Old Soldiers by Paul Bailey. Cape, 120 pp., £4.95, February 1980, 0 224 01783 7 Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White. Deutsch, 148 pp., £3.95, February 1980, 0 233 97173 4 Solo Faces by James Salter. Collins, 220 pp., £5.50, February 1980, 0 00 221983 2 Sol by Mario Satz, translated by Helen Lane. Sidgwick, 432 pp., £7.95, February 1980, 0 283 98607 7
Stephen Fender
The London Yankees: Portraits of American Writers and Artists in England, 1894-1914 by Stanley Weintraub. W.H. Allen, 408 pp., £7.95, November 1979, 0 491 02209 3 The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on our Life and Times by Alistair Cooke. Bodley Head, 323 pp., £5.95, October 1979, 0 370 30163 3
Michael Vince
Poem: ‘Sunday Lunch’
Tim Hilton
John Ruskin and Rose La Touche: Her Unpublished Diaries of 1861 and 1867 edited by Van Akin Burd. Oxford, 192 pp., £6.95, January 1980, 0 19 812633 6
Dan Jacobson
The Diamond Underworld by Fred Kamil. Allen Lane, 244 pp., £6.50, November 1979, 0 7139 1086 0
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