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Vol. 5 No. 13 · 21 July 1983
Jonathan Steinberg
After Poland by Enrico Berlinguer, translated by Antonio Bronda and Stephen Boddington. Spokesman, 114 pp., £2.25, March 1982, 0 85124 344 4
Letters
Tony Burgess, David Callahan, Paul Milican, Susanne Kappeler, Julie Jack, A.J. Ryder, Paul Edwards, Prudence Crowther
Paul Addison
Winston Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part III, The Coming of War 1936-1939 by Martin Gilbert. Heinemann, 1684 pp., £75, October 1982, 0 434 29188 9 Finest Hour: Winston Churchill, 1939-1941 by Martin Gilbert. Heinemann, 1308 pp., £15.95, June 1983, 0 434 29187 0 Churchill 1874-1915 by Ted Morgan. Cape, 571 pp., £12.50, April 1983, 0 224 02044 7 The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester. Michael Joseph, 973 pp., £14.95, June 1983, 0 7181 2275 5
John Horgan
In Time of War by Robert Fisk. Deutsch, 566 pp., £25, April 1983, 0 233 97514 4
Martin Pugh
Governing without a Majority by David Butler. Collins, 156 pp., £4.95, May 1983, 9780002170710 Multi-Party Politics and the Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor. Cambridge, 207 pp., £18.50, May 1983, 0 521 25524 4 Decade of Dealignment by Bo Särlvik, Ivor Crewe, Neil Day and Robert MacDermid. Cambridge, 393 pp., £27.50, June 1983, 0 521 22674 0
Mark Ridley
Evolution and Theory of Games by John Maynard Smith. Cambridge, 224 pp., £18, October 1982, 0 521 24673 3
John Hedley Brooke
Archetypes and Ancestors: Palaeontology in Victorian London 1850-1875 by Adrian Desmond. Blond and Briggs, 287 pp., £15.95, October 1982, 0 85634 121 5 Evolution without Evidence: Charles Darwin and ‘The Origin Species’ by Barry Gale. Harvester, 238 pp., £18.95, January 1983, 0 7108 0442 3 The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography by Janet Browne. Yale, 273 pp., £21, May 1983, 0 300 02460 6 The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinsm by Brain Leith. Collins, 174 pp., £7.95, December 1982, 0 00 219548 8
Jennifer Hornsby
Language and Thought by John Pollock. Princeton, 297 pp., £17.50, September 1982, 0 691 07269 8
J.P. Stern
Franz Kafka’s Loneliness by Marthe Robert, translated by Ralph Manheim. Faber, 251 pp., £12.50, October 1982, 9780571119455 Kafka’s Narrators by Roy Pascal. Cambridge, 251 pp., £22.50, March 1982, 0 521 24365 3 The Trial by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa Muir and Edwin Muir. Penguin, 255 pp., £1.75, October 1983, 0 14 000907 8 Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka and Willy Haas, translated by Tania Stern and James Stern. Penguin, 188 pp., £2.50, June 1983, 0 14 006380 3 The Penguin Complete Novels of Franz Kafka: ‘The Trial’, ‘The Castle’, ‘America’ translated by Willa Muir, illustrated by Edwin Muir. Penguin, 638 pp., £4.95, June 1983, 0 14 009009 6 The Penguin Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka edited by Nahum Glatzer. Penguin, 486 pp., £3.95, June 1983, 0 14 009008 8
Peter Godman
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays by J.R.R. Tolkien, editor Christopher Tolkien . Allen and Unwin, 240 pp., £9.95, March 1983, 0 04 809019 0 The Road to Middle-Earth by T.A. Shippey. Allen and Unwin, 252 pp., £9.95, September 1982, 0 04 809018 2 Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode by J.R.R. Tolkien, editor Alan Bliss. Allen and Unwin, 180 pp., £9.95, January 1983, 0 04 829003 3
E.D. Hirsch
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism by Jonathan Culler. Routledge, 307 pp., £16.95, February 1983, 0 7100 9502 3
Norman Stone
The Invention of Tradition edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Cambridge, 320 pp., £17.50, March 1983, 0 521 24645 8
William Lamont
Charles I and the Popish Plot by Caroline Hibbard. North Carolina, 342 pp., £21, May 1983, 0 8078 1520 9 Charles I: The Personal Monarch by Charles Carlton. Routledge, 426 pp., £14.95, June 1983, 9780710094858 The Puritan Moment: The Coming of Revolution in an English County by William Hunt. Harvard, 365 pp., £24, April 1983, 0 674 73903 5
Matthew Sweeney
Poem: ‘Imagined Arrival’
Christian Hesketh
Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I by Linda Levy Peck. Allen and Unwin, 277 pp., £18.50, December 1982, 0 04 942177 8
Frank Kermode
Diary: In Salt Lake City
Philip Horne
A Nail on the Head by Clare Boylan. Hamish Hamilton, 135 pp., £7.95, July 1983, 0 241 11001 7 New Stories 8: An Arts Council Anthology edited by Karl Miller. Hutchinson, 227 pp., £8.95, May 1983, 9780091523800 The Handyman by Penelope Mortimer. Allen Lane, 199 pp., £6.95, May 1983, 0 7139 1364 9 Open the Door by Rosemary Manning. Cape, 180 pp., £7.95, June 1983, 0 224 02112 5 A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White. Picador, 218 pp., £2.50, July 1983, 0 330 28151 8
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