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Vol. 4 No. 7 · 15 April 1982

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Vol. 4 No. 7 · 15 April 1982

Brigid Brophy

Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm
Psychoanalytic Psychology of Normal Development by Anna Freud
Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence of Wilhelm Reich and A.S. Neill edited by Beverley Placzek

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
Russian Writers and Soviet Society 1917-1978 by Ronald Hingley
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union edited by Archie Brown
‘Novy Mir’: A Case-Study in the Politics of Literature 1952-1958 by Edith Frankel

Alan Bennett

Instead of a Present

Reyner Banham

From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe

Anita Brookner

The Language of Clothes by Alison Lurie
The Thirties Family Knitting Book edited by Jane Waller
Chanel and Her World by Edmonde Charles-Roux
Dior in Vogue by Brigid Keenan
Creative Dressing by Kaori O’Connor
Doing it with style by Quentin Crisp

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
The Economic History of Britain since 1700. Vol. II: 1860 to the 1970s edited by Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey
The Population History of England 1541-1871: A Reconstruction by E.A. Wrigley
The Decline of British Economic Power since 1870 by M.W. Kirby
The Coming of the Mass Market 1850-1914 by Hamish Fraser

B.C. Leale

Six Surreal Poems

Adrian Poole

Blind Understanding by Stanley Middleton
Fifty Stories by Kay Boyle
Unsolicited Gift by Jacqueline Simms
Nellie without Hugo by Janet Hobhouse
Levitation: Five Fictions by Cynthia Ozick

Paul Delany

Rider Haggard: The Great Storyteller by D.S. Higgins
She by H. Rider Haggard
The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard edited by Peter Haining

V.G. Kiernan

Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in l8th-Century France by John McManners
Mirrors of Mortality: Studies in the Social History of Death edited by Joachim Waley

A.J.P. Taylor

Diary: Enough about Politics

Jeff McMahan

Nuclear Illusion and Reality by Solly Zuckerman

C.H. Sisson

Philosophy and Ideology in Hume’s Political Thought by David Miller

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