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Vol. 4 No. 20 · 4 November 1982
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933 by Nicholas Mosley. Secker, 274 pp., £8.95, October 1982, 0 436 28849 4
Letters
Robert Hutchison, Christopher Hawtree, Jean Raison, Graham Hough, Philip Rice, Leslie Dick, Stephen Adamson
Barbara Everett
Larkin at Sixty edited by Anthony Thwaite. Faber, 148 pp., £7.95, May 1982, 9780571118786 The Art of Philip Larkin by Simon Petch. Sydney University Press, 108 pp., £5.95, September 1982, 0 424 00090 3
John Bayley
The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Friedenberg 1910-1954 edited by Elliott Mossman, translated by Elliott Mossman and Margaret Wettlin. Secker, 365 pp., £15, September 1982, 0 436 28855 9
Colin Legum
Powers of the Press: The World’s Great Newspapers by Martin Walker. Quartet, 401 pp., £15, July 1982, 0 7043 2271 4 Goodbye Gutenberg: The Newspaper Revolution of the 1980s by Anthony Smith. Oxford, 367 pp., £3.95, January 1982, 9780198272434 New Technology and Industrial Relations in Fleet Street by Roderick Martin. Oxford, 367 pp., £17.50, October 1981, 9780198272434 News Ltd: Why you can’t read all about it by Brian Whitaker. Minority Press Group, 176 pp., £3.25, June 1981, 0 906890 04 7
Zheng Peidi
My Days in the Cowshed
Mark Elvin
China Diary by Stephen Spender and David Hockney. Thames and Hudson, 200 pp., £10, November 1982, 0 500 01290 3
Malise Ruthven
Malise Ruthven discusses the Beirut massacre
George Caird
The Story of the Stories: The Chosen People and its God by Dan Jacobson. Secker, 211 pp., £8.95, September 1982, 0 436 22048 2 The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter. Allen and Unwin, 195 pp., £10, May 1982, 0 04 801022 7 The Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye. Routledge, 261 pp., £9.95, June 1982, 0 7100 9038 2
P.F. Strawson
Philosophy in the 20th Century by A.J. Ayer. Weidenfeld, 283 pp., £12.50, September 1982, 0 297 78179 0
Patricia Beer
Poem: ‘The Lost Woman’
David Hoy
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, with an afterword by [afterword_writer]. Harvester, 256 pp., £18.95, October 1982, 0 7108 0450 4
Tom Paulin
Poem: ‘The Argument at Great Tew’
Richard Altick
Fortune and Men’s Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier by Dewey Ganzel. Oxford, 454 pp., £15, October 1982, 0 19 212231 2
A.J.P. Taylor
Diary: Personal and Public Affairs
Stephen Bann
The Prince buys the Manor by Elspeth Huxley. Chatto, 216 pp., £6.95, October 1982, 0 7011 2651 5 Faultline by Sheila Ortiz Taylor. Women’s Press, 120 pp., £2.50, October 1982, 0 7043 3900 5 Scenes from Metropolitan Life by William Cooper. Macmillan, 214 pp., £6.95, October 1982, 0 333 34203 8 Constance, or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell. Faber, 394 pp., £7.95, October 1982, 0 571 11757 0 Mickelsson’s Ghosts by John Gardner. Secker, 566 pp., £8.95, October 1982, 0 436 17251 8 Beware of pity by Stefan Zweig, translated by Phyllis Blewitt and Trevor Blewitt. Cape, 354 pp., £7.95, October 1982, 0 224 02057 9
Karl Miller
Lost Artist
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