Vol. 3 No. 9 · 21 May 1981
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Vol. 3 No. 9 · 21 May 1981
Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett
Sexuality and Solitude
Letters
Grahame Lock, R.W. Johnson, Douglas Johnson, John Corner, Simon Edwards, Richard Webster, Hans Schmoller, Donald McFarlan, Richard Wightman Fox, Lorna Scott Fox
Paul Delany
Feminine Beauty by Kenneth Clark. Weidenfeld, 199 pp., £10, October 1980, 0 297 77677 0 Of Women and their Elegance by Norman Mailer. Hodder, 288 pp., £12.50, March 1981, 0 340 23920 4 Nude Photographs 1850-1980 edited by Constance Sullivan. Harper and Row, 204 pp., £19.95, September 1981, 0 06 012708 2
Gavin Ewart
Two Poems
Marilyn Butler
Jane Austen’s ‘Sir Charles Grandison’ edited by Brian Southam. Oxford, 150 pp., £7.95, March 1981, 0 19 812637 9
Hide Ishiguro
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Edward Seidensticker. Penguin, 1090 pp., £5.95, November 1980, 0 14 044390 8
Robert Taubman
Malgudi Revisited
Graham Hough
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark. Bodley Head, 221 pp., £6.50, May 1981, 0 370 30900 6 Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Margaret Peden. Secker, 231 pp., £6.50, January 1981, 0 436 16763 8 The Leaves on Grey by Desmond Hogan. Picador, 119 pp., £1.50, April 1981, 0 330 26287 4 Children of Lir by Desmond Hogan. Hamish Hamilton, 136 pp., £6.95, April 1981, 0 241 10608 7 Walking naked by Nina Bawden. Macmillan, 220 pp., £5.95, April 1981, 0 333 31304 6
Frank Kermode
Frank Kermode writes about Granada Television’s version, broadcast on 15 April, of Ford Madox Ford’s ‘The Good Soldier’
J.Z. Young
The Making of Mankind by Richard Leakey. Joseph, 256 pp., £9.95, April 1981, 0 7181 1931 2 Lucy: The Beginning of Humankind: The Dramatic Discovery Of Our Oldest Human Ancestor by Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey. Granada, 409 pp., £9.95, April 1981, 0 246 11362 6
Brigid Brophy
Reckoning with the Beast by James Turner. Johns Hopkins, 190 pp., £7.50, February 1981, 0 8018 2399 4 The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes by S. Zuckerman. Routledge, 511 pp., £17.50, March 1981, 0 7100 0691 8
Michael Morgan
The Forbidden Experiment by Roger Shattuck. Secker, 220 pp., £6.95, August 1980, 0 436 45875 6
Onora O’Neill
The Philosophy of Teaching by John Passmore. Duckworth, 159 pp., £18, July 1980, 0 7156 1031 7
Patrick Wormald
The Enigma of Stonehenge by John Fowles and Barry Brukoff. Cape, 126 pp., £6.95, September 1980, 0 224 01618 0 British Cathedrals by Paul Johnson. Weidenfeld, 275 pp., £12.50, September 1980, 0 297 77828 5
Barbara Wootton
British Government and its Discontents by Geoffrey Smith and Nelson Polsby. Harper and Row, 202 pp., £7.95, February 1981, 0 06 337016 6
Alan Bell
A Lonely Business: A Self-Portrait of James Pope-Hennessy edited by Peter Quennell. Weidenfeld, 278 pp., £12.50, April 1981, 0 297 77918 4
Robert Wohl
August 1914 The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman. Papermac, 499 pp., £4.95, September 1980, 0 333 30516 7
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