Vol. 4 No. 2 · 4 February 1982

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Cover Artist

Charlotte Salomon

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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