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Vol. 6 No. 14 · 2 August 1984
Anne Sofer
The British General Election of 1983 by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh. Macmillan, 388 pp., £25, May 1984, 0 333 34578 9 Militant by Michael Crick. Faber, 242 pp., £3.95, June 1984, 0 571 13256 1
Letters
R.W. Farrington, A.C. Graham, Michael Brock and Eleanor Brock, Stephen Koss, John Lucas, Donald Davie, Neil Berry, Alastair Morgan, David Lodge, John Bayley
Danny Karlin
Diary: A Night at Greenham
Richard Rorty
Realism and Reason: Philosophical Papers, Vol. III by Hilary Putnam. Cambridge, 312 pp., £22.50, June 1984, 0 521 24672 5
Dan Jacobson
Inside Outsider: The Life and Times of Colin MacInnes by Tony Gould. Chatto, 261 pp., £12.50, September 1983, 0 7011 2678 7
Denis Donoghue
Selected Letters of E.M. Forster: Vol. I: 1879-1920 edited by Mary Lago and P.N. Furbank. Collins, 344 pp., £15.95, October 1983, 0 00 216718 2
D.W. Harding
The Root and the Flower by L.H. Myers. Secker, 583 pp., £8.95, March 1984, 0 436 29810 4
Peter Campbell
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler. Hamish Hamilton, 144 pp., £8.95, July 1984, 9780241113134
Walter Kendrick
The Brothers Singer by Clive Sinclair. Allison and Busby, 176 pp., £8.95, April 1983, 0 85031 275 2 The Penitent by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Singer. Cape, 170 pp., £7.95, March 1984, 0 224 02192 3
Christopher Ricks
The Faber Book of Parodies edited by Simon Brett. Faber, 383 pp., £8.95, May 1984, 0 571 13125 5 Lilibet: An Account in Verse of the Early Years of the Queen until the Time of her Accession by Her Majesty. Blond and Briggs, 95 pp., £6.95, May 1984, 0 85634 157 6
Christopher Norris
Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects edited by Gary Shapiro and Alan Sica. Massachusetts, 310 pp., February 1984, 0 87023 416 1 The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard, translated by Geoff Bennington, Brian Massumi and Fredric Jameson. Manchester, 110 pp., £23, August 1984, 0 7190 1450 6 Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to Deconstruction by William Ray. Blackwell, 228 pp., £17.50, April 1984, 0 631 13457 3 The Philosophy of the Novel: Lukacs, Marxism and the Dialectics of Form by J.M. Bernstein. Harvester, 296 pp., £25, February 1984, 0 7108 0011 8 Criticism and Objectivity by Raman Selden. Allen and Unwin, 170 pp., £12.50, April 1984, 9780048000231
Alan Bennett
Lost Jokes
Edmund Leach
Nomads and the Outside World by A.M. Khazanov, translated by Julia Crookenden. Cambridge, 369 pp., £37.50, February 1984, 0 521 23813 7 The House of Si Abd Allah: The Oral History of a Moroccan Family edited by Henry Munson. Yale, 320 pp., £17.95, April 1984, 0 300 03084 3 Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life by Judith Modell. Chatto, 255 pp., £15, February 1984, 0 7011 2771 6
John Ziman
A Science Policy for Britain by Tam Dalyell. Longman, 135 pp., £5.95, September 1983, 0 582 90257 6
Leo Pliatzky
Government and the Governed by Douglas Wass. Routledge, 120 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 7102 0312 8
Paul Sieghart
Two men were aquitted by Percy Hoskins. Secker, 221 pp., £9.95, May 1984, 0 436 20161 5
John Bayley
Shakespearian Dimensions by G. Wilson Knight. Harvester, 232 pp., £22.50, May 1984, 0 7108 0628 0
Sean O’Faolain
Story: ‘Nora Barnacle: Pictor Ignotus’
Knute Skinner
Poem: ‘The News’
Rosalind Mitchison
An Old Man’s Diary by A.J.P. Taylor. Hamish Hamilton, 155 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 241 11247 8
A.J.P. Taylor
Diary: One of Two Versions
C.H. Sisson
The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Vol. IV: 1909-1913 edited by Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate. Oxford, 337 pp., £21, March 1984, 0 19 812621 2 The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper. Vol. IV: 1792-1799 edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp. Oxford, 498 pp., £48, March 1984, 0 19 812681 6 The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account by Robert M. Adams. Norton, 555 pp., £21, March 1984, 0 393 01704 4 The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy. Vol. II edited by Samuel Hynes. Oxford, 543 pp., £35, June 1984, 0 19 812783 9
Michael Rose
All Visitors Ashore by C.K. Stead. Harvill, 150 pp., £8.95, July 1984, 0 00 271009 9 A Trick of the Light by Sebastian Faulks. Bodley Head, 204 pp., £7.95, July 1984, 0 370 30589 2 Dividing Lines by Victor Sage. Chatto, 166 pp., £8.95, July 1984, 0 7011 2811 9
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