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 1984
Collected 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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