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Vol. 3 No. 10 · 4 June 1981
G. Cabrera Infante
Bites from the Bearded Crocodile
Letters
Peter Lamarque, Diana Griffiths, James Brockway, Clive Towse, Nicholas Brown
Emma Rothschild
The Zero-Sum Society by Lester Thurow. Harper and Row, 230 pp., £7.95, February 1981, 0 465 09384 1
Anthony Powell
The Lyttelton – Hart-Davis Letters edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. Murray, 185 pp., £12.50, March 1981, 0 7195 3770 3
Stephen Spender
Poem: ‘Auden’s Funeral’
John Sutherland
Tit for Tat by Verity Bargate. Cape, 167 pp., £5.95, April 1981, 0 224 01908 2 Watching Me, Watching You by Fay Weldon. Hodder, 208 pp., £6.95, May 1981, 0 340 25600 1 Maggie Muggins by Keith Waterhouse. Joseph, 220 pp., £6.95, May 1981, 0 7181 2014 0 Mr Lonely by Eric Morecambe. Eyre Methuen, 189 pp., £5.95, March 1981, 0 413 48170 0
Alan Hollinghurst
Creation by Gore Vidal. Heinemann, 510 pp., £8.95, April 1981, 0 394 50015 6
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘Empire’
Mary Renault
The Search for Alexander by Robin Lane Fox. Allen Lane, 439 pp., £12.95, February 1981, 0 7139 1395 9 Alexander the Great by N.G.L. Hammond. Chatto, 358 pp., £14.95, April 1981, 0 7011 2565 9
Christopher Reid
Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu by John Felstiner. Stanford, 284 pp., $18.50, December 1980, 0 8047 1079 1 The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation edited by Charles Tomlinson. Oxford, 608 pp., £12.95, October 1980, 0 19 214103 1
Salman Rushdie
Three Trapped Tigers by G. Cabrera Infante. Picador, 487 pp., £2.95, August 1980, 0 330 26133 9
Bernard Williams
Nietzsche on Tragedy by M.S. Silk and J.P. Stern. Cambridge, 441 pp., £27.50, March 1981, 0 521 23262 7 Nietzsche: A Critical Life by Ronald Hayman. Weidenfeld, 424 pp., £18.50, March 1980, 0 297 77636 3 Nietzsche. Vol. 1: The Will to Power as Art by Martin Heidegger, translated by David Farrell Krell. Routledge, 263 pp., £11.50, March 1981, 0 7100 0744 2
David Lodge
A Catholic Novel
Barbara Strang
Designs in Prose by Walter Nash. Longman, 228 pp., £10.50, June 1980, 0 582 29100 3
Peter Burke
Time, Work and Culture in the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago, 384 pp., £13.50, January 1981, 0 226 47080 6
Hans Keller
Two Cup Finals
Nicholas Penny
The Study and Criticism of Italian Sculpture by John Pope-Hennessy. Princeton, 270 pp., £25.10, March 1981, 0 691 03967 4
Charles Peake
Annotations to ‘Finnegans Wake’ by Roland McHugh. Routledge, 628 pp., £17.95, October 1980, 0 7100 0661 6
Seamus Deane
Yeats, Ireland and Fascism by Elizabeth Cullingford. Macmillan, 251 pp., £15, February 1981, 0 333 26199 2
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