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Vol. 4 No. 9 · 20 May 1982
Christopher Ricks
My Sister and Myself: The Diaries of J.R. Ackerley edited by Francis King. Hutchinson, 217 pp., £8.95, March 1982, 9780091470203
Letters
Paul Johnson, Jeff McMahan, J.M. Rogers, Carolyn White, Charles Martindale, Alistair Ricketts
John Bayley
Shakespeare’s Division of Experience by Marilyn French. Cape, 376 pp., £12.50, March 1982, 0 224 02013 7
Donald Davie
In Defence of the Imagination by Helen Gardner. Oxford, 197 pp., £12.50, February 1982, 0 19 812639 5
A.J. Ayer
Koestler by Iain Hamilton. Secker, 397 pp., £12, April 1982, 0 436 19191 1
Patrick Wall
The Monkey Puzzle by John Gribbin and Jeremy Cherfas. Bodley Head, 279 pp., £8.50, April 1982, 0 370 30469 1 Darwinism Defended: A Guide to the Evolution Controversies by Michael Ruse. Addison-Wesley, 356 pp., £6.95, April 1982, 0 201 06273 9 The Aquatic Ape: A Theory of Human Evolution by Elaine Morgan. Souvenir, 168 pp., £7.95, March 1982, 0 285 62509 8 The Neck of the Giraffe, or Where Darwin went wrong by Francis Hitching. Pan, 288 pp., £2.50, April 1982, 0 330 26643 8
Richard Rorty
Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick. Oxford, 765 pp., £15, November 1981, 0 19 824672 2
Mark Abley
Poem: ‘Lhasa, 1950’
Lord Goodman
Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer. Weidenfeld, 200 pp., £8.50, March 1982, 0 297 78010 7
Arthur Marwick
Battered Cherub by Joe Gormley. Hamish Hamilton, 216 pp., £7.95, April 1982, 0 241 10754 7
Blair Worden
Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England 1603-1655 by David Katz. Oxford, 312 pp., £17.50, April 1982, 0 19 821885 0
G.R. Elton
The History of Parliament: The Commons 1558-1603 edited by P.W. Hasler. HMSO, 1940 pp., £95, February 1982, 0 11 887501 9
R.F. Leslie
God’s Playground: A History of Poland, Vol 1., The Origins to 1745, Vol. 11, 1745 to the Present by Norman Davies. Oxford, 605 pp., £27.50, December 1981, 0 19 822555 5
Tam Dalyell
A Falklands Polemic
Robert Taubman
A Chain of Voices by André Brink. Faber, 525 pp., £7.95, May 1982, 0 571 11874 7 How German is it by Walter Abish. Carcanet, 252 pp., £6.75, March 1982, 0 85635 396 5 Before she met me by Julian Barnes. Cape, 183 pp., £6.50, April 1982, 0 224 01985 6 Providence by Anita Brookner. Cape, 183 pp., £6.95, May 1982, 0 224 01976 7 Getting it right by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Hamish Hamilton, 264 pp., £7.95, May 1982, 0 241 10805 5
George Woodcock
Maps and Dreams by Hugh Brody. Jill Norman and Hobhouse, 297 pp., £7.95, January 1982, 0 906908 76 0
Douglas Johnson
La Cérémonie des Adieux by Simone de Beauvoir. Gallimard, 559 pp., £9.25, November 1981Mes Années Sartre by Georges Michel. Hachette, 217 pp., £6.15Oeuvres Romanesques by Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Michel Contat and Michel Rybalka. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2174 pp., £22.50, January 1982
Clive James
Poem: ‘Diary’
D.A.N. Jones
P.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography by Benny Green. Joseph, 256 pp., £8.95, October 1981, 0 907516 04 1 Wodehouse on Wodehouse: Bring on the girls (with Guy Bolton), Performing Flea, Over Seventy Penguin, 655 pp., £2.95, September 1981, 0 14 005245 3 P.G. Wodehouse: An Illustrated Biography by Joseph Connolly. Eel Pie, 160 pp., £3.95, September 1981, 0 906008 44 1 P.G. Wodehouse: A Centenary Celebration 1881-1981 edited by James Heineman and Donald Bensen. Oxford, 197 pp., £40, February 1982, 0 19 520357 7 The World of P.G. Wodehouse by Herbert Warren Wind. Hutchinson, 256 pp., £5.95, October 1981, 0 09 145670 3
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