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Vol. 3 No. 7 · 16 April 1981
Christopher Ricks
In theory
Letters
Lydia Gerend, Nicolas Walter, Hans Keller, J. Bradshaw, Nicholas Jacobs, Peter Cramer, D.O. Morgan
Ted Hughes
Poem: ‘An October Salmon’
Marilyn Butler
Ideas and the Novel by Mary McCarthy. Weidenfeld, 121 pp., £4.95, February 1981, 9780297778967
Peter Clarke
The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman edited by Janet Morgan. Hamish Hamilton/Cape, 1136 pp., £15, March 1981, 0 241 10440 8
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
La Saga des Giscard by Pol Bruno. Ramsay, 264 pp., May 1980, 2 85956 185 4
Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner goes to see Abel Gance’s film ‘Napoleon’
Douglas Johnson
The Long March of the French Left by R.W. Johnson. Macmillan, 345 pp., £20, March 1981, 0 333 27417 2 One-Dimensional Marxism by Simon Clarke and Terry Lovell. Allison and Busby, 256 pp., £9.95, June 1980, 0 85031 367 8 Communism and Philosophy by Maurice Cornforth. Lawrence and Wishart, 282 pp., £8.95, July 1980, 0 85315 430 9 The Crisis of Marxism by Jack Lindsay. Moonraker, 183 pp., £7.95, March 1981, 0 239 00200 8 Class in English History 1680-850 by R.S. Neale. Blackwell, 250 pp., £12, January 1981, 0 631 12851 4
Alasdair MacIntyre
Modern French Philosophy by Vincent Descombes, translated by Lorna Scott Fox. Cambridge, 192 pp., £14.50, January 1981, 0 521 22837 9
Sean O’Faolain
William Faulkner: His Life and Work by David Minter. Johns Hopkins, 325 pp., £9.50, January 1981, 0 8018 2347 1
Claude Rawson
Jefferson Davis gets his citizenship back by Robert Penn Warren. Kentucky/Transatlantic Book Service, 114 pp., £4.85, December 1980, 0 8131 1445 4 Being here: Poetry 1977-1980 by Robert Penn Warren. Secker, 109 pp., £4.95, October 1980, 0 436 36650 9 Ways of light: Poems 1972-1980 by Richard Eberhart. Oxford, 68 pp., £5.95, January 1981, 9780195027372
Salman Rushdie
Story: ‘The Prophet’s Hair’
Anthony Powell
Brooke’s Benefit
Clive Wilmer
Poem: ‘After Pavese’
Robert Taubman
Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs. Calder, 332 pp., £9.95, March 1981, 0 7145 3784 5 The Tokyo-Montana Express by Richard Brautigan. Cape, 258 pp., £6.50, April 1981, 0 224 01907 4
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