Vol. 6 No. 5 · 15 March 1984

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Vol. 6 No. 5 · 15 March 1984

Michael Mason

Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility by Germaine Greer

Letters

Barry Shenker, Donat Gallagher, C.H. Sisson, C.W. Robbins

Peter Laslett

Communiqué of the State Statistical Bureau of the People’s Republic of China on Major Figures in the 1982 Population Census 
Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China by Judith Stacey
Long Lives: The Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution by Deborah Davis-Friedmann
Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America’s Past by Carole Haber

Colin Legum

The Heart of the Dragon by Alasdair Clayre
The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. II: The Great Leap Forward 1958-1960 by Roderick MacFarquhar
Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro
Shenfan by William Hinton
The Messiah and the Mandarins by Dennis Bloodworth
The Cambridge History of China. Vol. XII: Republican China 1912-1949, Part I edited by John Fairbank
The Middle Kingdom: Inside China Today by Erwin Wickert

Geoffrey Hartman

Paul de Man’s Proverbs of Hell

John Bayley

Dante and English Poetry: Shelley to T.S. Eliot by Steve Ellis
Dante the Maker by William Anderson
Dante: Purgatory translated with notes and commentary by Mark Musa
Dante: Paradiso and Purgatorio with translation and commentary by Charles Singleton 
Virgil: The Aeneid translated by Robert Fitzgerald

Lawrence Gowing

Raphael by Roger Jones and Nicholas Penny
The Drawings of Raphael by Paul Joannides
Drawings by Raphael from English Collections by J.A. Gere and Nicholas Turner

Charles Hope

The Art of Humanism by Kenneth Clark
The Eloquence of Symbols: Studies in Humanist Art by Edgar Wind, edited by Jaynie Anderson

Peter Campbell

Francis Bacon by Michel Leiris, translated by John Weightman
Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding
The Omega Workshops by Judith Collins
The Omega Workshops 1913-1919: Decorative Arts of Bloomsbury 
The Omega Workshops: Alliance and Enmity in English Art 1911-1920 

Robert Melville

Swans Reflecting Elephants: My Early Years by Edward James, edited by George Melly

Nicholas Penny

Caravaggio by Howard Hibbard
Circa 1600: A Revolution of Style in Italian Painting by S.J. Freedberg
Domenichino by Richard Spear

Nicholas Spice

The Fetishist, and Other Stories by Michel Tournier, translated by Barbara Wright
My Aunt Christina, and Other Stories by J.I.M. Stewart
Mr Bedford and the Muses by Gail Godwin
Alexandra Freed by Lisa Zeidner
The Coffin Tree by Wendy Law-Yone

Ian Hamilton

Diary: Francis Hope, and Tom and Vic

Stephen Bann

The Two of Us by John Braine
An Open Prison by J.I.M. Stewart
Havannah by Hugh Thomas
Sunrising by David Cook
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
It’s me, Eddie by Edward Limonov, translated by S.L. Campbell
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth

Selima Hill

Two Poems

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