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Vol. 7 No. 12 · 4 July 1985
Edward Said
Edward Said reflects on the fall of Beirut
Letters
Hilary Gaskin, E. Barlow, Sam Miller, Barbara Everett, Dennis Walder, Douglas Dunn, C. Lewy, A.J. Dale
Keith Kyle
Eisenhower. Vol. I: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect 1890-1952 Vol. II: The President 1952-1969 by Stephen Ambrose. Allen and Unwin, 637 pp., £12.50, February 1984, 0 04 923073 5 Ike’s Letters to a Friend: 1941-1958 edited by Robert Griffith. Kansas, 211 pp., $19.95, October 1984, 0 7006 0257 7
E.S. Turner
Hitler’s Rockets: The Story of the V-2s by Norman Longmate. Hutchinson, 423 pp., £13.95, May 1985, 0 09 158820 0
R.W. Johnson
The Pick of Paul Johnson: An Anthology Harrap, 277 pp., £9.95, May 1985, 0 245 54246 9
Blake Morrison
Poem: ‘The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper’
Nicholas Spice
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym. Macmillan, 216 pp., £8.95, June 1985, 0 333 39129 2 Foreign Land by Jonathan Raban. Harvill, 352 pp., £9.50, June 1985, 0 00 222918 8 Black Marina by Emma Tennant. Faber, 157 pp., £8.95, June 1985, 9780571134670
Peter Barham
Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist by R.D. Laing. Macmillan, 147 pp., £9.95, February 1985, 0 333 37075 9
John Bayley
Multiple Personality and the Disintegration of Literary Character by Jeremy Hawthorn. Edward Arnold, 146 pp., £15, May 1983, 0 7131 6398 4 Doubles: Studies in Literary History by Karl Miller. Oxford, 488 pp., £19.50, June 1985, 9780198128410 The Doubleman by C.J. Koch. Chatto, 326 pp., £8.95, April 1985, 9780701129453
Paul Seabright
Passion: An Essay on Personality by Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Collier Macmillan, 300 pp., £13.95, September 1984, 9780029331200 The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff. Chatto, 156 pp., £9.95, October 1984, 0 7011 2866 6
Jonathan Barnes
Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical by Walter Burkert, translated by John Raffan. Blackwell, 493 pp., £29.50, April 1985, 0 631 11241 3
John Romer
Akhenaten: The Heretic King by Donald Redford. Princeton, 255 pp., £29.60, August 1984, 0 691 03567 9
Hubert Moore
Poem: ‘Noises Off’
Peter Campbell
Degas: His Life, Times and Work by Roy McMullen. Secker, 517 pp., £18.50, March 1985, 9780436276477 Degas: The Dancers by George Shackelford. Norton, 151 pp., £22.95, March 1985, 0 393 01975 6 Degas Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings by Götz Adriani. Thames and Hudson, 408 pp., £35, May 1985, 0 500 09168 4 Bricabracomania: The Bourgeois and the Bibelot by Rémy de Saisselin. Thames and Hudson, 189 pp., £12.50, February 1985, 0 500 23424 8
Robert Melville
Kenneth Clark: A Biography by Meryle Secrest. Weidenfeld, 310 pp., £12.95, September 1984, 9780297783985
Nicholas Penny
The Ravished Image: Or, How to Ruin Masterpieces by Restoration by Sarah Walden. Weidenfeld, 174 pp., £12.95, April 1985, 0 297 78407 2
Leo Marx
Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered by William Pritchard. Oxford, 186 pp., £14.95, March 1985, 0 19 503462 7
Paul Foot
Diary: Windsor Girls School on 22 June
Malise Ruthven
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand. Quartet, 152 pp., £9.95, March 1985, 0 7043 2473 3 The Pride and the Fall: Iran 1974-1979 by Anthony Parsons. Cape, 160 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 224 02196 6 Iran under the Ayatollahs by Dilip Hiro. Routledge, 416 pp., £20, January 1985, 9780710099242 Obbligato: Notes on a Foreign Service Career by William Sullivan. Norton, 279 pp., £13.95, October 1984, 0 393 01809 1 Envoy to the Middle World: Adventures in Diplomacy by George McGhee. Harper and Row, 458 pp., £15.95, January 1984, 0 06 039025 5 The Persians amongst the English by Denis Wright. Tauris, 273 pp., £17.95, February 1985, 1 85043 002 0
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