Vol. 5 No. 15 · 18 August 1983

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Vol. 5 No. 15 · 18 August 1983

Christopher Ricks

Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir by David Pryce-Jones
J.B. Yeats: Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others, 1869-1922 edited with a memoir by Joseph Hone

Letters

Laura (Riding) Jackson, Martin Seymour-Smith, Brigid Brophy, John Murray, Earl Miner

Mary Midgley

Animal Thought by Stephen Walker
On the Evolution of Human Behaviour by Peter Reynolds
The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit by Melvin Konner
Sociobiology and the Human Dimension by Georg Breuer
Sociobiology and the Pre-Emption of Social Science by Alexander Rosenberg

Geoffrey Hawthorn

The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology by Anthony Pagden

Sheldon Rothblatt

The History Men: The Historical Profession in England since the Renaissance by John Kenyon

Peter Redgrove

Poem: ‘City of Boys’

Gavin Ewart

Poem: ‘An old person reflects on love’

John Maynard Smith

The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism by Karl Popper, edited by W.W. Bartley

David Pears

Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition by Saul Kripke

Stuart Hampshire

A History of the Modern World: From 1917 to the 1980s by Paul Johnson

Marilyn Butler

English Literature in History: 1730-80: An Equal, Wide Survey edited by Raymond Williams, by John Barrell
English Literature in History: 1350-1400: Medieval Readers and Writers edited by Raymond Williams, by Janet Coleman
English Literature in History: 1780-1830: Pastoral and Politics edited by Raymond Williams, by Roger Sales
The Cambridge Guide to English Literature by Michael Stapleton

Paul Seabright

Utilitarianism and Beyond edited by Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams

Amartya Sen

Palanpur: The Economy of an Indian Village by C.J. Bliss and N.H. Stern

Anne Barton

Homosexuality in Renaissance England by Alan Bray
Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare by Linda Bamber
Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare by Lisa Jardine

Julian Barnes

Story: ‘Flaubert’s Parrot’

A.J.P. Taylor

Diary: Preposterous Arrangements

D.A.N. Jones

Dangerous Pursuits by Nicholas Salaman
Monimbo by Robert Moss
The Last Supper by Charles McCarry
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
August 1988 by David Fraser
The Cure by Peter Kocan

John Bayley

Collected Poems 1970-1983 by Donald Davie

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