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Vol. 3 No. 5 · 19 March 1981
Oliver Sacks
Witty Ticcy Ray
Letters
Audrey Williamson, Roger Kojecky, Iring Fetscher, Hans Keller, Nicholas Tyacke, Richard Mayne, John McLaren
M.F. Perutz
Advice to a Young Scientist by P.B. Medawar. Harper and Row, 109 pp., £4.95, February 1980, 0 06 337006 9
Robert Souhami
Conquering Cancer by Lucien Israel, translated by Joan Pinkham. Penguin, 269 pp., £2.25, January 1981, 0 14 022276 6
A.J. Ayer
The Scientific Image by Bas C. Van Fraassen. Oxford, 233 pp., £15, December 1980, 9780198244240
Paul Sieghart
Mandy by Mandy Rice-Davies and Shirley Flack. Joseph, 224 pp., £6.95, November 1980, 0 7181 1974 6
Eric Hobsbawm
People’s History and Socialist Theory edited by Raphael Samuel. Routledge, 417 pp., £10.95, January 1981, 0 7100 0765 5 British Labour History by E.H. Hunt. Weidenfeld, 428 pp., £18.50, January 1981, 0 297 77785 8
Malcolm Deas
Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere: The Churches in Latin America and South Africa by Edward Norman. Oxford, 230 pp., £12.50, February 1981, 0 19 821127 9 The Pope’s Divisions by Peter Nichols. Faber, 382 pp., £10, March 1981, 0 571 11740 6
Edward Said
Crazy America
John Holloway
Poem: ‘Holy Mountain’
Michael Hofmann
Poem: ‘Miracles of Science’
Harold Lever
Accountability
John Sturrock
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Chatto, 1040 pp., £17.50, March 1981, 0 7011 2477 6
J.I.M. Stewart
Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars by Paul Fussell. Oxford, 246 pp., £8.95, March 1981, 0 19 502767 1
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds by Fiona MacCarthy. Lund Humphries, 204 pp., £7.95, January 1981, 0 85331 435 7 Philip Mairet: Autobiographical and Other Papers edited by C.H. Sisson. Carcanet, 266 pp., £7.95, February 1981, 0 85635 326 4
C.K. Stead
The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound by Michael Alexander. Faber, 247 pp., £7.95, April 1979, 0 571 10560 2 Ezra Pound and the Pisan Cantos by Anthony Woodward. Routledge, 128 pp., £7.95, April 1980, 0 7100 0372 2 Ezra Pound and the Cantos: A Record of Struggle by Wendy Stallard Flory. Yale, 321 pp., £12.60, July 1980, 0 300 02392 8 Ezra Pound and His World by Peter Ackroyd. Thames and Hudson, 127 pp., £5.95, February 1981, 0 500 13069 8 End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound with Poems from Ezra Pound’s H.D. Book edited by Norman Holmes Pearson and Michael King. Carcanet, 84 pp., £2.95, February 1980, 0 85635 318 3
Michael Mason
Thirty Seconds by Michael Arlen. Farrar, Straus/Faber, 211 pp., £5.50, February 1981, 0 374 27576 9 The Crystal Bucket by Clive James. Cape, 238 pp., £6.95, February 1981, 0 224 01890 6 The Message of Television by Roger Silverstone. Heinemann, 248 pp., £14.50, March 1981, 0 435 82825 8
David Thomson
Charmed Lives by Michael Korda. Penguin, 498 pp., £2.50, January 1981, 0 14 005402 2
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual by Walter Burkert. California, 226 pp., £9, April 1980, 0 520 03771 5 Myth and Society in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant, translated by Janet Lloyd. Harvester, 242 pp., £24, February 1980, 9780391009158
Rosemary Ashton
Goethe’s Plays translated by Charles Passage. Benn, 626 pp., £12.95, July 1980, 0 510 00087 8 The Classical Centre: Goethe and Weimar 1775-1832 by T.J. Reed. Croom Helm, 271 pp., £14.95, November 1979, 0 85664 356 4 Goethe on Art translated by John Gage. Scolar, 251 pp., £10, March 1980, 0 85967 494 0 The Younger Goethe and the Visual Arts by W.D. Robson-Scott. Cambridge, 175 pp., £19.50, February 1981, 0 521 23321 6
John Sutherland
Other people by Martin Amis. Cape, 223 pp., £5.95, March 1981, 0 224 01766 7 The Magic Glass by Anne Smith. Joseph, 174 pp., £6.50, March 1981, 9780718119867 The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by Gerald Edwards. Hamish Hamilton, 400 pp., £7.50, March 1981, 0 241 10477 7 Sharpe’s Eagle by Bernard Cornwell. Collins, 266 pp., £6.50, February 1981, 0 00 221997 2 XPD by Len Deighton. Hutchinson, 397 pp., £6.95, March 1981, 0 09 144570 1
David Chandler
The Commander: A Life of Barclay de Tolly by Michael Josselson and Diana Josselson. Oxford, 275 pp., £12.95, June 1980, 0 19 215854 6
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