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Vol. 5 No. 10 · 2 June 1983
Peter Clarke
Margaret Thatcher is about to have another of her triumphs
Letters
John Lucas, Alan Hurst, Donald Davie, D.G. Wright, Nicolas Walter, Paul Delany
Martin Pugh
Renewal: Labour’s Britain in the 1980s by Shadow Cabinet, edited by Gerald Kaufman. Penguin, 201 pp., £2.50, April 1983, 0 14 052351 0 Socialism in a Cold Climate edited by John Griffith. Allen and Unwin, 230 pp., £2.95, April 1983, 9780043350508 Liberal Party Politics edited by Vernon Bogdanor. Oxford, 302 pp., £17.50, April 1983, 0 19 827465 3
Douglas Johnson
The Eisenhower Diaries edited by Robert Ferrell. Norton, 445 pp., £15.25, April 1983, 0 393 01432 0 The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography by Thomas Reeves. Blond and Briggs, 819 pp., £11.95, June 1983, 0 85634 131 2 The past has another pattern by George Ball. Norton, 544 pp., £14.95, September 1982, 0 393 01481 9 Torn Lace Curtain by Frank Saunders and James Southwood. Sidgwick, 361 pp., £7.95, March 1983, 0 283 98946 7 The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert Caro. Collins, 882 pp., £15, February 1983, 0 00 217062 0 The Politician: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson by Ronnie Dugger. Norton, 514 pp., £13.25, September 1982, 9780393015980 Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger. Weidenfeld/Joseph, 1312 pp., £15.95, March 1982, 0 7181 2115 5 Richard Nixon: The Shaping of his Character by Fawn Brodie. Norton, 574 pp., £14.95, October 1982, 0 393 01467 3 Haig: The General’s Progress by Roger Morris. Robson, 458 pp., £8.95, October 1982, 9780860511885 Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President by Jimmy Carter. Collins, 622 pp., £15, November 1982, 0 00 216648 8 Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency by Hamilton Jordan. Joseph, 431 pp., £12.95, November 1982, 0 7181 2248 8 Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-81 by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Weidenfeld, 587 pp., £15, April 1983, 0 297 78220 7
Selima Hill
Poem: ‘Chicken Feathers’
Jon Elster
Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism by Steven Collins. Cambridge, 323 pp., £22.50, June 1982, 0 521 24081 6 Le Bonheur-Liberté: Bouddhisme Profond et Modernité by Serge-Christophe Kolm. Presses Universitaires de France, 637 pp., £150, January 1983, 9782130373162
Clive James
Poem: ‘The book of my enemy has been remaindered’
Michael Neve
Is Michael Neve paranoid?
Frank Cioffi
Philosophical Essays on Freud edited by Richard Wollheim and James Hopkins. Cambridge, 314 pp., £25, November 1982, 9780521240765 The Legend of Freud by Samuel Weber. Minnesota, 179 pp., $25, December 1982, 0 8166 1128 9
Jon Halliday
In the Service of the Peacock Throne: The Diaries of the Shah’s Last Ambassador to London by Parviz Radji. Hamish Hamilton, 343 pp., £12.50, April 1983, 0 241 10960 4
Malise Ruthven
The Helen Smith Story by Paul Foot and Ron Smith. Fontana, 418 pp., £1.95, February 1983, 0 00 636536 1
G. Cabrera Infante
The Fragrance of Guava: Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza in conversation with Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Ann Wright. Verso, 126 pp., £9.95, May 1983, 0 86091 065 2
Anita Brookner
Porky by Deborah Moggach. Cape, 236 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 0 224 02948 7 The Banquet by Carolyn Slaughter. Allen Lane, 191 pp., £6.95, May 1983, 0 7139 1574 9 Binstead’s Safari by Rachel Ingalls. Faber, 221 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 9780571130160 In Good Faith by Edith Reveley. Hodder, 267 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 0 340 32012 5 Cousins by Monica Furlong. Weidenfeld, 172 pp., £7.95, April 1983, 0 297 78231 2 The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro. Allen Lane, 233 pp., £7.95, April 1983, 0 7139 1549 8 On the Stroll by Alix Kates Shulman. Virago, 301 pp., £8.95, May 1983, 0 86068 364 8 The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Women’s Press, 244 pp., £3.95, March 1983, 0 7043 3905 6 Mistral’s Daughter by Judith Krantz. Sidgwick, 531 pp., £8.95, May 1983, 0 283 98987 4
Neal Ascherson
Diary: On A.J.P. Taylor
D.A.N. Jones
Story: ‘Popping’
Robert Morley
Godfrey: A Special Time Remembered by Jill Bennett. Hodder, 186 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 0 340 33160 7
Matthew Sweeney
Poem: ‘The Servant’
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