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Vol. 2 No. 10 · 22 May 1980
Emma Rothschild
Hangchow Retrouvé
Letters
Kenneth Ballhatchet, Eric Stokes, Margaret Gardiner, James Greene, Yorick Wilks, Mark Haworth-Booth
Martin Amis
On the Edge of the Cliff by V.S. Pritchett. Chatto, 179 pp., £4.95, February 1980, 0 7011 2438 5 The Tale Bearers: Essays on English, American and Other Writers by V.S. Pritchett. Chatto, 223 pp., £6.50, April 1980, 0 7011 2435 0
Neal Ascherson
Russian Hide and Seek by Kingsley Amis. Hutchinson, 240 pp., £5.95, May 1980, 0 09 142050 4
Karl Miller
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James. Cape, 171 pp., £5.50, May 1980, 0 224 01825 6
Frank Kermode
The Reign of Sparrows by Roy Fuller. London Magazine Editions, 69 pp., £3.95, February 1980, 0 904388 29 8 Souvenirs by Roy Fuller. London Magazine Editions, 191 pp., £4.95, February 1980, 0 904388 30 1
Leo Pliatzky
The Government of the United Kingdom: Political Authority in a Changing Society by Max Beloff. Weidenfeld, 438 pp., £6.95, March 1980, 0 297 77618 5
Antony Jay
Informed Sources
Michael Hofmann
Poem: ‘La Nuit Américaine’
S.L. Goldberg
Deconstruction and Criticism by Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Hartman and J. Hillis Miller. Routledge, 256 pp., £8.95, January 1980, 0 7100 0436 2
Wayne Booth
Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris. Harper and Row, 229 pp., $9.95, January 1980, 0 06 013047 4
Christopher Ricks
Trying to Explain by Donald Davie. Carcanet, 213 pp., £6.95, April 1980, 0 85635 343 4
John Dunn
Jesus by Humphrey Carpenter. Oxford, 102 pp., June 1980, 0 19 283016 3 Aquinas by Anthony Kenny. Oxford, 86 pp., June 1980, 0 19 287500 0 Pascal by Alban Krailsheimer. Oxford, 84 pp., June 1980, 0 19 287512 4 Hume by A.J. Ayer. Oxford, 102 pp., June 1980, 0 19 287528 0 Marx by Peter Singer. Oxford, 82 pp., June 1980, 0 19 287510 8
Peter Clarke
The Shorter Strachey selected and introduced by Michael Holroyd and Paul Levy. Oxford, 288 pp., £6.95, April 1980, 0 19 212211 8 Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd. Penguin, 1143 pp., £4.95, December 1979, 0 14 003198 7
Samuel Hynes
C. Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life by Sean Day-Lewis. Weidenfeld, 333 pp., £12.50, March 1980, 0 297 77745 9
Michael Holroyd
The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Antony Alpers. Cape, 466 pp., £9.50, May 1980, 0 224 01625 3
Graham Hough
How far can you go? by David Lodge. Secker, 244 pp., £5.95, April 1980, 0 436 25661 4 Life before Man by Margaret Atwood. Cape, 317 pp., £5.95, March 1980, 0 224 01782 9 Desirable Residence by Lettice Cooper. Gollancz, 191 pp., £5.50, April 1980, 0 575 02787 8 A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr. Harvester, 110 pp., £6.50, April 1980, 0 85527 328 3
John Sutherland
Metroland by Julian Barnes. Cape, 176 pp., £4.95, March 1980, 0 224 01762 4 The Bleeding Heart by Marilyn French. Deutsch, 412 pp., £6.50, May 1980, 9780233972343 Creator by Jeremy Leven. Hutchinson, 544 pp., £6.95, April 1980, 0 09 141250 1
Douglas Johnson
1943: The victory that never was by John Grigg. Eyre Methuen, 255 pp., £7.95, April 1980, 9780413396105
John Ziman
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav. Hutchinson, 352 pp., £4.50, October 1979, 0 09 139401 5
Reyner Banham
Memoirs of an Unjust Fella: An Autobiography by J.M. Richards. Weidenfeld, 279 pp., £10, March 1980, 9780297777670
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