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Vol. 7 No. 6 · 4 April 1985
Jonathan Steele
Weakness and Deceit: US Policy and El Salvador by Raymond Bonner. Hamish Hamilton, 408 pp., £13.95, February 1985, 9780241113929
Letters
John Halperin, Brigid Brophy, George Parfitt, Maureen Bell, Michael Tanner, Alastair Ross, Christopher Driver, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, Hans Schmoller, Pauline Callaghan, David Ward
Tam Dalyell
The Right to Know: The Inside Story of the ‘Belgrano’ Affair by Clive Ponting. Sphere, 214 pp., £2.50, March 1985, 0 7221 6944 2
John Bayley
With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward FitzGerald by Robert Bernard Martin. Faber, 313 pp., £17.50, February 1985, 0 571 13462 9
Robert Bernard Martin
The Collected Letters of William Morris. Vol. I: 1848-1880 edited by Norman Kelvin. Princeton, 626 pp., £50.30, April 1984, 0 691 06501 2
Christopher Norris
Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy by Mary Daly. Women’s Press, 407 pp., £14.95, January 1985, 9780704328471 Feminist Literary Studies: An Introduction by K.K. Ruthven. Cambridge, 162 pp., £16.50, December 1984, 0 521 26454 5 Women: The Longest Revolution by Juliet Mitchell. Virago, 334 pp., £5.95, April 1984, 0 86068 399 0 Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine by Verena Andermatt Conley. Nebraska, 181 pp., £20.35, March 1985, 0 8032 1424 3 Women who do and women who don’t by Robyn Rowland. Routledge, 242 pp., £5.95, May 1984, 0 7102 0296 2 The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Joel Schwartz. Chicago, 196 pp., £14.45, June 1984, 0 226 74223 7
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Three Poems
Michael Foley
Poem: ‘Exotic Birds’
Sarah Wintle
Prep-School Girl
Tom Paulin
Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Work edited by Peter Robinson. Open University, 259 pp., £18, March 1985, 0 335 10588 2
Michael Wood
The Man from the USSR, and Other Plays by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov. Weidenfeld, 342 pp., £20, February 1985, 0 297 78596 6
Patrick Parrinder
Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories by E.L. Doctorow. Joseph, 145 pp., £8.95, April 1985, 0 7181 2529 0 The Pork Butcher by David Hughes. Constable, 123 pp., £5.95, April 1984, 0 09 465510 3 Out of the Blue by John Milne. Hamish Hamilton, 309 pp., £8.95, March 1985, 0 241 11489 6
Vuyelwa Carlin
Poem: ‘The Surprise’
James Greene
Poem: ‘Berlin, 1930s’
Jonathan Haslam
The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War by E.H. Carr, edited by Tamara Deutscher. Macmillan, 111 pp., £17.50, December 1984, 0 333 36952 1 The British Marxist Historians: An Introductory Analysis by Harvey Kaye. Polity, 316 pp., £22.50, November 1984, 0 7456 0015 8 Worlds of Labour: Further Studies in the History of Labour by Eric Hobsbawm. Weidenfeld, 369 pp., £15.95, October 1984, 0 297 78509 5 The Collected Essays of Christopher Hill. Vol. I: Writing and Revolution in 17th-Century England Harvester, 340 pp., £28.50, February 1985, 0 7108 0565 9
Robert Cecil
The Soviet Union and Terrorism by Roberta Goren. Allen and Unwin, 232 pp., £17.50, November 1984, 0 04 327073 5 The Great Purges by Isaac Deutscher and David King. Blackwell, 176 pp., £12.50, November 1984, 0 631 13923 0 SOE: The Special Operations Executive 1940-46 by M.R.D. Foot. BBC, 280 pp., £8.50, October 1984, 0 563 20193 2 A History of the SAS Regiment by John Strawson. Secker, 292 pp., £12.95, November 1984, 0 436 49992 4
D.A.N. Jones
The Missing Will by Michael Wharton. Hogarth, 216 pp., £10.95, November 1984, 0 7011 2666 3
Patricia Angadi
Diary: Drawing, Painting, Writing
Sheldon Rothblatt
Ability, Merit and Measurement: Mental Testing and English Education 1880-1940 by Gillian Sutherland and Stephen Sharp. Oxford, 332 pp., £25, June 1984, 0 19 822632 2
Susannah Clapp
Scotch Verdict by Lillian Faderman. Quartet, 320 pp., £12.95, February 1985, 0 7043 2505 5
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