Vol. 3 No. 16 · 3 September 1981
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Vol. 3 No. 16 · 3 September 1981
Donald Davie
My Americas
Letters
Solly Zuckerman, Averil Lysaght, Graham Hough, Graham Martin, Norma Kitson
Michael Dummett
Rules and Representations by Noam Chomsky. Blackwell, 299 pp., £7.50, August 1980, 0 631 12641 4
Gerald Graff
The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction by Jonathan Culler. Routledge, 256 pp., £7.95, July 1981, 0 7100 0757 4
Christopher Reid
Poem: ‘Cambridgeport Christmas’
Günter Kunert, translated by Christopher Middleton
Poem: ‘Zoo’
Edward Mendelson
After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde by Christopher Butler. Oxford, 177 pp., £7.95, November 1980, 0 19 815766 5
Russell Davies
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961 edited by Carlos Baker. Granada, 948 pp., £15, April 1981, 0 246 11576 9
Gavin Ewart
Three Poems
Richard Mayne
David O. Selznick’s Hollywood by Ronald Haver. Secker, 425 pp., £35, December 1980, 0 436 19128 8 My Early life by Ronald Reagan and Richard Hubler. Sidgwick, 316 pp., £7.95, April 1981, 0 283 98771 5 Naming Names by Victor Navasky. Viking, 482 pp., $15.95, October 1980, 0 670 50393 2
Lorna Tracy
The Habit of Being: Letters by Flannery O’Connor edited by Sally Fitzgerald. Farrar, Straus/Faber, 639 pp., £8.25, January 1979, 0 571 12017 2 The violent bear it away by Flannery O’Connor. Faber, 226 pp., £2.95, September 1980, 0 571 12017 2 A good man is hard to find by Flannery O’Connor. Women’s Press, 251 pp., £7.50, May 1980, 0 7043 2832 1
Christopher Reid
Some Americans: A Personal Record by Charles Tomlinson. California, 134 pp., £6.50, June 1981, 0 520 04037 6
James Michie
Poem: ‘Observation’
Michael Neve
The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas de Quincey by Grevel Lindop. Dent, 433 pp., £12, July 1981, 0 460 04358 7
Karl Miller
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison by Jack Henry Abbott. Random House, 166 pp., $11.95, June 1981, 0 394 51858 6
Malcolm Deas
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman, translated by Toby Talbot. Weidenfeld, 164 pp., £7.95, July 1981, 0 297 77995 8
Robert Taubman
July’s People by Nadine Gordimer. Cape, 160 pp., £5.95, September 1981, 0 224 01932 5 The Company of Women by Mary Gordon. Cape, 291 pp., £6.50, July 1981, 0 224 01955 4 Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth. Cape, 225 pp., £5.95, August 1981, 0 224 01974 0
Ian Hamilton
The Comic Strip
Angela Carter
Story: ‘Mise-en-Scène for a Parricide’
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