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Vol. 5 No. 16 · 1 September 1983
Rosalind Mitchison
Family Forms in Historic Europe edited by Richard Wall. Cambridge, 606 pp., £37.50, March 1983, 0 521 24547 8 Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England by Ann Kussmaul. Cambridge, 245 pp., £22, December 1981, 0 521 23566 9 The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage by Ferdinand Mount. Cape, 282 pp., £9.50, July 1982, 0 224 01999 6
Letters
William Empson, Harriet Jump, Keith Hanley, Park Honan, Barbara Everett, George Watson, Anne Olivier Bell, Ellman Crasnow, John Rosselli, Tom Paulin, Grahame White, Colin Haycraft
Gavin Millar
The Scandalous Charm of Luis Buñuel
Stephen Knight
Poem: ‘Our Undersea World’
James Darke
Poem: ‘Family Matter’
Clive James
Footlights! A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy by Robert Hewison. Methuen, 224 pp., £8.95, June 1983, 0 413 51150 2
John Kerrigan
Horn by Barry Tuckwell. Macdonald, 202 pp., £10.95, April 1983, 0 356 09096 5
Mary Goldring
DeLorean: The Rise and Fall of a Dream-Maker by Ivan Fallon and James Srodes. Hamish Hamilton, 418 pp., £8.95, July 1983, 0 241 11087 4
C.H. Sisson
Hensley Henson: A Study in the Friction between Church and State by Owen Chadwick. Oxford, 337 pp., £18.50, May 1983, 0 19 826445 3
David Lehmann
Thanks be to God and to the Revolution
Leslie Norris
The Hawk’s Eye – Two Poems
Lester Thurow
Macroeconomics by Wynne Godley and Francis Cripps. Oxford, 315 pp., £9.95, May 1983, 0 19 215358 7
John Skorupski
Marxism and Anthropology by Maurice Bloch. Oxford, 180 pp., £9.50, January 1983, 0 19 876091 4 Death and the Regeneration of Life edited by Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry. Cambridge, 236 pp., £18.50, January 1983, 0 521 24875 2
Mary Lefkowitz
The Family, Women and Death: Comparative Studies by Sally Humphreys. Routledge, 210 pp., £15, March 1983, 0 7100 9322 5 The Golden Lyre: The Themes of the Greek Lyric Poets by David Campbell. Duckworth, 312 pp., £28, February 1983, 0 7156 1563 7
Mary Warnock
Cohabitation without Marriage by Michael Freeman and Christina Lyon. Gower, 228 pp., £15, April 1983, 0 566 00455 0 A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture by Steven Mintz. New York, 234 pp., $32.50, May 1983, 0 8147 5388 4 What is to be done about the family? edited by Lynne Segal. Penguin, 237 pp., £2.50, April 1983, 0 14 006596 2 ‘Autistic’ Children: New Hope for a Cure by N. Tinbergen and E.A. Tinbergen. Allen and Unwin, 362 pp., £19.50, April 1983, 0 04 157010 3 Thicker than water? Adoption: Its Loyalties, Pitfalls and Joys by Alice Heim. Secker, 211 pp., £8.95, May 1983, 0 436 19155 5 The Artificial Family: A Consideration of Artificial Insemination by Donor by R. Snowden and G.D. Mitchell. Counterpoint, 138 pp., £2.95, April 1983, 0 04 176002 6
Richard Altick
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin edited by George Allan Cate. Stanford, 251 pp., $28.50, August 1982, 0 8047 1114 3 Ruskin Today by Kenneth Clark. Penguin, 363 pp., £2.95, October 1982, 0 14 006326 9 John Ruskin: Letters from the Continent 1858 edited by John Hayman. Toronto, 207 pp., £19.50, December 1982, 0 8020 5583 4
Mark Ridley
Pluto’s Republic by Peter Medawar. Oxford, 351 pp., £12.50, October 1982, 1 921777 26 5
Dan Jacobson
Story: ‘My Life’
Anne Sofer
Diary: The Silliest Script Ever Written
Philip Horne
The Proprietor by Ann Schlee. Macmillan, 300 pp., £8.95, September 1983, 0 333 35111 8 Slouching towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries. Gollancz, 241 pp., £7.95, August 1983, 0 575 03306 1 Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver. Secker, 121 pp., £7.95, August 1983, 0 436 08272 1 The Loser by George Konard, translated by Ivan Sanders. Allen Lane, 315 pp., £8.95, August 1983, 0 7139 1599 4
Marguerite Alexander
A Journey in Ladakh by Andrew Harvey. Cape, 236 pp., £8.50, May 1983, 0 224 02056 0 All of us There by Polly Devlin. Weidenfeld, 200 pp., £7.95, June 1983, 9780297782247 The Far Side of the Lough: Stories from an Irish Childhood by Polly Devlin and Ian Newsham. Gollancz, 118 pp., £5.50, June 1983, 0 575 03244 8
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