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Vol. 7 No. 14 · 1 August 1985
Noël Annan
Diplomacy and Intelligence during the Second World War: Essays in Honour of F.H. Hinsley edited by Richard Langhorne. Cambridge, 329 pp., £27.50, May 1985, 0 521 26840 0 British Intelligence and the Second World War. Vol. I: 1939-Summer 1941, Vol. II: Mid-1941-Mid-1943, Vol. III, Part I: June 1943-June 1944 by F.H. Hinsley, E.E. Thomas, C.F.G. Ransom and R.C. Knight. HMSO, 616 pp., £12.95, September 1979, 0 11 630933 4
Letters
Simon Watney, Dan Jacobson, Jean Raphael Demos, R.M. Acheson and 23 others, John Ryle, Tom Paulin, Graham Martin, Christopher MacLehose, Ursula Owen
Kazuo Ishiguro
Pictures from the Water Trade: An Englishman in Japan by John David Morley. Deutsch, 259 pp., £9.95, May 1985, 0 233 97703 1
Nobuko Albery
The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima. Secker/Penguin, 821 pp., £18, July 1985, 0 436 28160 0 Mishima on Hagakure by Yukio Mishima. Penguin, 144 pp., £2.95, May 1985, 0 14 004923 1 The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes. Penguin, 271 pp., £3.95, May 1985, 0 14 007248 9
David Drew
From the Other Side
Peter Pulzer
Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and their Experiences by Lewis Coser. Yale, 351 pp., £25, October 1984, 0 300 03193 9 The Viennese Enlightenment by Mark Francis. Croom Helm, 176 pp., £15.95, May 1985, 0 7099 1065 7 The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity by Marsha Rozenblit. SUNY, 368 pp., $39.50, July 1984, 0 87395 844 6
Christopher Burns
Story: ‘A Country Priest’
Peter Redgrove
Poem: ‘The Night-Chandlers’
Donald Davidson
Plato’s Philosopher
Jonathan Barnes
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature. Vol. I: Greek Literature edited by P.E. Easterling and B.M.W. Knox. Cambridge, 936 pp., £47.50, May 1985, 0 521 21042 9 A History of Greek Literature by Peter Levi. Viking, 511 pp., £14.95, February 1985, 0 670 80100 3
John Sutherland
British Literary Magazines. Vol. III: The Victorian and Edwardian Age 1837-1913 edited by Alvin Sullivan. Greenwood, 560 pp., £88.50, December 1984, 0 313 24335 2 The Book Book by Anthony Blond. Cape, 226 pp., £9.95, April 1985, 0 224 02074 9
Michael Holroyd
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes. Hodder, 288 pp., £12.95, July 1985, 0 340 28337 8
Philip Horne
Immoral Memories by Sergei Eisenstein, translated by Herbert Marshall. Peter Owen, 292 pp., £20, June 1985, 0 7206 0650 0 A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema: 1930-1980 by Robert Ray. Princeton, 409 pp., £48.50, June 1985, 0 691 04727 8 Suspects by David Thomson. Secker, 274 pp., £8.95, May 1985, 0 436 52014 1 Cahiers du Cinéma. Vol. I: The 1950s. Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave edited by Jim Hillier. Routledge with the British Film Institute, 312 pp., £16.95, March 1985, 0 7100 9620 8
Gavin Millar
A Man with a Camera by Nestor Almendros, translated by Rachel Phillips Belash. Faber, 306 pp., £9.95, June 1985, 0 571 13589 7 Players of Shakespeare: Essays in Shakespearian Performance by 12 Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company edited by Philip Brockbank. Cambridge, 179 pp., £12.50, June 1985, 0 521 24428 5 Year of the King by Anthony Sher. Chatto, 208 pp., £10.95, June 1985, 0 7011 2926 3
Tom Paulin
On the Contrary by Miroslav Holub, translated by Ewald Osers. Bloodaxe, 126 pp., £8.95, October 1984, 0 906427 75 4 The Lamentation of the Dead by Peter Levi. Anvil, 40 pp., £2.95, October 1984, 0 85646 140 7 Collected Poems by Peter Levi. Anvil, 255 pp., £12, November 1984, 0 85646 134 2 Elegies by Douglas Dunn. Faber, 64 pp., £7.50, March 1985, 0 571 13570 6 Poems: 1963-1983 by Michael Longley. Salamander, 206 pp., £9.95, March 1985, 0 904011 77 1 Making for the Open: The Chatto Book of Post-Feminist Poetry edited by Carol Rumens. Chatto, 151 pp., £4.95, March 1985, 0 7011 2848 8 Direct Dialling by Carol Rumens. Chatto, 48 pp., £3.95, March 1985, 0 7011 2911 5 The Man Named East by Peter Redgrove. Routledge, 137 pp., £4.95, March 1985, 0 7102 0014 5
Danny Karlin
Diary: The Boss at Wembley
D.A.N. Jones
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda Bogin. Cape, 368 pp., £8.95, July 1985, 0 224 02231 8 Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor. Hodder, 304 pp., £9.95, May 1985, 9780340360330 Careful with the Sharks by Constantine Phipps. Cape, 216 pp., £8.95, May 1985, 9780224023085
Nicholas Spice
A Perfect Peace by Amos Oz, translated by Hillel Halkin. Chatto, 374 pp., £9.95, July 1985, 9780701129590
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