Vol. 6 No. 17 · 20 September 1984
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Vol. 6 No. 17 · 20 September 1984
Ian Hamilton
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis. Cape, 352 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 224 02276 8
Letters
Geoffrey Hawthorn, E.E. Duncan-Jones, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Roger Hudson
John Campbell
The Making of Neil Kinnock by Robert Harris. Faber, 256 pp., £9.95, September 1984, 0 571 13266 9 Neil Kinnock: The Path to Leadership by G.M.F. Drower. Weidenfeld, 162 pp., £8.95, July 1984, 0 297 78467 6
David Marquand
Politics and the Pursuit of Happiness: An Inquiry into the Involvement of Human Beings in the Politics of Industrial Society by Ghita Ionescu. Longman, 248 pp., £16.50, September 1984, 0 582 29549 1
Nicholas Wade
A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock by Evelyn Fox Keller. Freeman, 235 pp., £13.95, July 1984, 0 7167 1433 7 A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube by S.E. Luria. Harper and Row, 229 pp., £12.50, May 1984, 0 06 015260 5
Paul Seabright
Motivated Irrationality by David Pears. Oxford, 258 pp., £14.95, March 1984, 0 19 824662 5
Frank Kermode
The Only Problem by Muriel Spark. Bodley Head, 189 pp., £7.95, September 1984, 0 370 30605 8
M.A. Screech
Homage to Rabelais
Craig Raine
Poem: ‘The Prophetic Book’
Denton Fox
Sir Thomas Urquhart: The Jewel edited by R.D.S. Jack and R.J. Lyall. Scottish Academic Press, 252 pp., £8.75, April 1984, 0 7073 0327 3
Denis Donoghue
Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior. Garland, 1919 pp., $200, May 1984, 0 8240 4375 8 James Joyce by Richard Ellmann. Oxford, 900 pp., £8.95, March 1984, 0 19 281465 6
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Two Poems
Donald Davie
Notes from New York, and Other Poems by Charles Tomlinson. Oxford, 64 pp., £4.50, March 1984, 0 19 211959 1 The Cargo by Neil Rennie. TNR Productions, 27 pp., January 1984Collected Poems 1943-1983 by C.H. Sisson. Carcanet, 383 pp., £14.95, April 1984, 0 85635 498 8
C.H. Sisson
The Force of Poetry by Christopher Ricks. Oxford, 447 pp., £19.50, September 1984, 0 19 811722 1
Roy Harris
Language, Sense and Nonsense by G.P. Baker and P.M.S. Hacker. Blackwell, 397 pp., £22.50, April 1984, 0 631 13519 7
John Murray
Story: ‘Natural Learning’
Joseph Epstein
Diary: A Thinker Thinks
Diana Rose
A Nice Girl like Me: A Story of the Seventies by Rosie Boycott. Chatto, 250 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 7011 2665 5
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