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Vol. 4 No. 2 · 4 February 1982
John Maynard Smith
The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins. Freeman, 307 pp., £9.95, December 1981, 0 7167 1358 6
Letters
Roger Hartley, Ernest Tuveson, T. Theocharis, F. Hurdis-Jones, Salman Rushdie
Barbara Everett
Three for Water-Music by Donald Davie. Carcanet, 69 pp., £2.95, July 1981, 0 85635 363 9 The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse edited by Donald Davie. Oxford, 319 pp., £7.95, September 1981, 0 19 213426 4
Gabriel Josipovici
Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse by T. Carmi. Penguin, 608 pp., £6.95, September 1981, 0 14 042197 1
Clive James
Lady Diana Cooper by Philip Ziegler. Hamish Hamilton, 336 pp., £9.95, September 1981, 0 241 10659 1
Hilary Putnam
Minds and Mechanisms: Philosophical Psychology and Computational Models by Margaret Boden. Harvester, 311 pp., £20, October 1981, 0 7108 0005 3
John Ziman
The Nuclear Barons by Peter Pringle and James Spigelman. Joseph, 578 pp., £12.95, January 1982, 0 7181 2061 2
Valerie Pearl
The Shell Guide to the History of London by W.R. Dalzell. Joseph, 496 pp., £12.50, July 1981, 0 7181 2015 9
Christopher Hill
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G.E.M. de Ste Croix. Duckworth, 732 pp., £38, December 1981, 0 7156 0738 3
Keith Middlemas
The Polish August: What Happened in Poland by Neal Ascherson. Allen Lane, 316 pp., £12.50, December 1981, 0 7139 1469 6
David Lodge
A Polish Notebook – on the eve of martial law
Patricia Beer
Two Poems
Brigid Brophy
The Handbook of Non-Sexist Writing for Writers, Editors and Speakers edited by Casey Miller and Kate Swift. Women’s Press, 119 pp., £3.25, November 1981, 0 7043 3878 5
Denis Donoghue
The Collected Stories of Sean O’Faolain: Vols I and II Constable, 445 pp., £8.50, October 1980, 0 00 946330 5
Robert Taubman
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike. Deutsch, 467 pp., £7.95, January 1982, 0 233 97424 5 Charlotte: Life or Theatre? by Charlotte Salomon. Allen Lane, 784 pp., £30, September 1981, 0 7139 1425 4 Weights and Measures by Joseph Roth. Peter Owen, 150 pp., £7.50, January 1982, 0 7206 0562 8 November by Rolf Schneider. Hamish Hamilton, 235 pp., £7.95, July 1981, 0 241 10347 9
Clare Hollingworth
At the Barricades: The Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist by Wilfred Burchett. Quartet, 341 pp., £10.95, May 1981, 0 7043 2214 5
Douglas Johnson
Un Crime sous Giscard by Jesus Ynfante. Maspéro, 256 pp., £4.72, October 1981, 2 7071 1259 3 Enquête sur les Affaires du Septennat by Jacques Derogy and Jean-Marie Pontaut. Laffont, 336 pp., £7, November 1981
Salman Rushdie
Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro by A.J. Langguth. Hamish Hamilton, 366 pp., £12.50, October 1981, 0 241 10678 8
Hans Keller
The Tongs and the Bones: The Memoirs of Lord Harewood Weidenfeld, 334 pp., £9.95, October 1981, 0 297 77960 5 Putting the Record Straight: The Autobiography of John Culshaw Secker, 362 pp., £8.50, November 1981, 0 436 11802 5 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mastersinger: A Documented Study by Kenneth Whitton. Oswald Wolff, 342 pp., £15, December 1981, 0 85496 405 3
Michael Hofmann
Poem: ‘Eclogue’
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