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Vol. 4 No. 7 · 15 April 1982
Brigid Brophy
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm. Picador, 174 pp., £1.95, February 1982, 9780330267373 Psychoanalytic Psychology of Normal Development by Anna Freud. Hogarth, 389 pp., £15, February 1982, 0 7012 0543 1 Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence of Wilhelm Reich and A.S. Neill edited by Beverley Placzek. Gollancz, 429 pp., £12.50, January 1982, 0 575 03054 2
Letters
C.B. Goodhart, Geoffrey Hartman, Leon Wieseltier, Alex Callinicos, Charles Martindale, Gabriel Josipovici, Roger Jones
John Bayley
Nightingale Fever: Russian Poets in Revolution by Ronald Hingley. Weidenfeld, 269 pp., £12.95, January 1982, 0 297 77902 8 Russian Writers and Soviet Society 1917-1978 by Ronald Hingley. Methuen, 296 pp., £4.95, June 1981, 0 416 31390 6 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union edited by Archie Brown. Cambridge, 492 pp., £18.50, February 1982, 0 521 23169 8 ‘Novy Mir’: A Case-Study in the Politics of Literature 1952-1958 by Edith Frankel. Cambridge, 206 pp., £19.50, November 1981, 0 521 23438 7
Alan Bennett
Instead of a Present
Reyner Banham
From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe. Cape, 143 pp., £6.95, March 1982, 0 224 02030 7
Anita Brookner
The Language of Clothes by Alison Lurie. Heinemann, 272 pp., £10, April 1982, 0 434 43906 1 The Thirties Family Knitting Book edited by Jane Waller. Duckworth, 95 pp., £5.95, September 1981, 0 7156 1601 3 Chanel and Her World by Edmonde Charles-Roux. Weidenfeld, 354 pp., £25, October 1981, 0 297 78024 7 Dior in Vogue by Brigid Keenan. Octopus, 192 pp., £9.95, October 1981, 0 7064 1634 1 Creative Dressing by Kaori O’Connor. Penguin, 192 pp., £4.95, September 1981, 1 4004 6247 9 Doing it with style by Quentin Crisp. Eyre Methuen, 157 pp., £5.95, October 1981, 0 413 47490 9
Onora O’Neill
Women and Failure
David Marquand
After Hillhead
David Astor
Owners and Editors
Xan Smiley
Poland and the West
David Cannadine
The Economic History of Britain since 1700. Vol. 1: 1700-1860 edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey. Cambridge, 323 pp., £25, October 1981, 0 521 23166 3 The Economic History of Britain since 1700. Vol. II: 1860 to the 1970s edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey. Cambridge, 485 pp., £30, October 1981, 0 521 23167 1 The Population History of England 1541-1871: A Reconstruction by E.A. Wrigley. Edward Arnold, 779 pp., £45, October 1982, 0 7131 6264 3 The Decline of British Economic Power since 1870 by M.W. Kirby. Allen and Unwin, 211 pp., £15, June 1981, 0 04 942169 7 The Coming of the Mass Market 1850-1914 by Hamish Fraser. Macmillan, 268 pp., £16, February 1982, 0 333 31034 9
B.C. Leale
Six Surreal Poems
Adrian Poole
Blind Understanding by Stanley Middleton. Hutchinson, 159 pp., £7.50, March 1982, 0 09 146990 2 Fifty Stories by Kay Boyle. Penguin, 648 pp., £2.95, February 1982, 0 14 005922 9 Unsolicited Gift by Jacqueline Simms. Chatto, 151 pp., £6.95, March 1982, 0 7011 2616 7 Nellie without Hugo by Janet Hobhouse. Cape, 192 pp., £6.95, March 1982, 0 224 01969 4 Levitation: Five Fictions by Cynthia Ozick. Secker, 157 pp., £6.95, March 1982, 0 436 25482 4
Paul Delany
Rider Haggard: The Great Storyteller by D.S. Higgins. Cassell, 266 pp., £12.95, August 1981, 0 304 30827 7 She by H. Rider Haggard. Penguin, 300 pp., £1.50, January 1982, 0 14 005297 6 The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard edited by Peter Haining. Joseph, 255 pp., £7.50, June 1981, 0 7181 2010 8
V.G. Kiernan
Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in l8th-Century France by John McManners. Oxford, 619 pp., £17.50, November 1981, 0 19 826440 2 Mirrors of Mortality: Studies in the Social History of Death edited by Joachim Waley. Europa, 252 pp., £19.50, October 1981, 0 905118 67 7
A.J.P. Taylor
Diary: Enough about Politics
Jeff McMahan
Nuclear Illusion and Reality by Solly Zuckerman. Collins, 154 pp., £7.50, January 1982, 0 00 216554 6
C.H. Sisson
Philosophy and Ideology in Hume’s Political Thought by David Miller. Oxford, 218 pp., £15, November 1981, 0 19 824658 7
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