Vol. 3 No. 2 · 5 February 1981
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Vol. 3 No. 2 · 5 February 1981
Clive James
Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life by Ian Hunter. Collins, 270 pp., £6.95, November 1980, 0 00 216538 4
Letters
John Thompson, Bernard Crick, L.F. Brakel, Norman Stone, Nicholas Tyacke, Anne Barton
V.S. Pritchett
Green Avenue: The Life and Writings of Forrest Reid 1875-1947 by Brian Taylor. Cambridge, 218 pp., £12.50, October 1980, 0 521 22801 8
Dan Jacobson
Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Mara Kalnins. Cambridge, 249 pp., £12.50, October 1980, 0 521 22407 1
Alasdair MacIntyre
Does God exist? by Hans Küng, translated by Edward Quinn. Collins, 839 pp., £12, November 1980, 0 00 215147 2
Jon Elster
Political Obligation in its Historical Context by John Dunn. Cambridge, 355 pp., £14.50, October 1980, 0 521 22890 5
John Dunn
History of the Idea of Progress by Robert Nisbet. Heinemann, 370 pp., £8.50, November 1980, 0 435 82657 3
Barbara Everett
The Penguin Book of Unrespectable Verse edited by Geoffrey Grigson. Penguin, 335 pp., £1.75, November 1980, 0 14 042142 4 The Penguin Book of Light Verse edited by Gavin Ewart. Penguin, 639 pp., £9.50, October 1980, 0 14 042270 6
J.P. Stern
Günter Grass’s Uniqueness
Seamus Heaney
Poem: ‘The Loaning’
Hans Keller
Hitler by Norman Stone. Hodder, 195 pp., £6.95, August 1980, 0 340 24980 3 Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ in Britain and America: A Publishing History 1930-39 by James Barnes and Patience Barnes. Cambridge, 158 pp., £8.50, September 1980, 0 521 22691 0 The Berlin Secession: Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany by Peter Paret. Harvard, 262 pp., £10.50, December 1980, 0 674 06773 8 German Romantic Painting by William Vaughan. Yale, 260 pp., £19.95, October 1980, 0 300 02387 1
Harold James
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries. Vol. II: 1878-1883 edited by Martin Gregor-Dellin and Dietrich Mack, translated by Geoffrey Skelton. Collions, 1200 pp., £20, January 1981, 0 00 216189 3
Russell Davies
Lennon’s Confessions
Alan Price
Lennon Texts
Robert Taubman
The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas. Gollancz, 240 pp., £6.95, January 1981, 0 575 02889 0 Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. Cape, 220 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 224 01851 5 The Last Crime by John Domatilla. Heinemann, 155 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 434 20090 5
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan writes about his television plays
Peter Campbell
Nature and Culture by Barbara Novak. Thames and Hudson, 323 pp., £16, August 1980, 0 500 01245 8 Edward Hopper: The Complete Prints by Gail Levin. Norton, 128 pp., £9.95, April 1980, 0 393 01275 1 Edward Hopper as illustrator by Gail Levin. Norton, 288 pp., £15.95, April 1980, 0 393 01243 3
Michael Neve
Edward Carpenter, 1844-1929: Prophet of Human Fellowship by Chushichi Tsuzuki. Cambridge, 237 pp., £15, November 1980, 0 521 23371 2
Claude Rawson
Writing and Reading in Henry James by Susanne Kappeler. Macmillan, 242 pp., £15, January 1981, 0 333 29104 2
Caroline Moorehead
Siege! Princes Gate by the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ Team. Hamlyn, 131 pp., May 1980, 0 600 20337 9 Siege: Six Days at the Iranian Embassy by George Brock. Macmillan, 144 pp., £1.95, May 1980, 0 333 30951 0 Who dares wins by Tony Geraghty. Arms and Armour, 256 pp., £8.95, July 1980, 9780853684572
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