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Vol. 8 No. 7 · 17 April 1986
Richard Rorty
The Contingency of Language
Letters
R.W. Johnson, Thomas LaBorie Burns and Ana Lucia Gazolla, Michael Taylor, Donald Greene, Andrew Franklin, David Lancaster
Bernard Williams
A Matter of Principle by Ronald Dworkin. Harvard, 425 pp., £19.95, May 1985, 0 674 55460 4
Raymond Williams
Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives by Carolyn Steedman. Virago, 164 pp., £3.95, April 1986, 0 86068 559 4
Nicholas Best
Lester: The Official Biography by Dick Francis. Joseph, 338 pp., £12.95, March 1986, 0 7181 1255 5 Born Lucky by John Francome. Pelham, 157 pp., £9.95, November 1985, 0 7207 1635 7
Paul Addison
Clement Attlee by Trevor Burridge. Cape, 401 pp., £20, January 1986, 0 224 02318 7 The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton 1940-1945 edited by Ben Pimlott. Cape in association with the London School of Economics, 913 pp., £40, February 1986, 9780224020657 Loyalists and Loners by Michael Foot. Collins, 315 pp., £15, March 1986, 0 00 217583 5
Andrew Hodges
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter. Viking, 852 pp., £18.95, September 1985, 0 670 80687 0 Ada: A Life and a Legacy by Dorothy Stein. MIT, 321 pp., £17.50, January 1986, 9780262192422
Peter Campbell
In the American West by Richard Avedon. Thames and Hudson, 172 pp., £40, October 1985, 0 500 54110 8 Photoportraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Thames and Hudson, 283 pp., £35, October 1985, 0 500 54109 4
Christopher Hitchens
Hollywood Babylon II by Kenneth Anger. Arrow, 323 pp., £5.95, January 1986, 0 09 945110 7 Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood. Columbia, 336 pp., $25, October 1985, 0 231 05776 8
Frank Kermode
Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years by Peter Griffin. Oxford, 258 pp., £12.95, March 1986, 0 19 503680 8 The Young Hemingway by Michael Reynolds. Blackwell, 291 pp., £14.95, February 1986, 0 631 14786 1 Hemingway: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers. Macmillan, 646 pp., £16.95, March 1986, 0 333 42126 4
Don Coles
Poem: ‘My Death as the Wren Library’
John Bayley
The Fisher King by Anthony Powell. Heinemann, 256 pp., £9.95, April 1986, 0 434 59926 3
Robert Walshe
Three of a Kind by Rachel Ingalls. Faber, 141 pp., £8.95, October 1985, 0 571 13606 0 Home Truths by Mavis Gallant. Cape, 330 pp., £9.95, November 1985, 0 224 02344 6 Later the Same Day by Grace Paley. Virago, 211 pp., £8.95, November 1985, 0 86068 701 5
Patrick Parrinder
Gerald’s Party by Robert Coover. Heinemann, 316 pp., £10.95, April 1986, 0 434 14290 5 Caracole by Edmund White. Picador, 342 pp., £9.95, March 1986, 0 330 29291 9 Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor. Faber, 337 pp., £9.95, February 1986, 0 571 13846 2 In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason. Chatto, 245 pp., £9.95, March 1986, 0 7011 3034 2
Patricia Craig
Somerville and Ross: The World of the Irish R.M. by Gifford Lewis. Viking, 251 pp., £12.95, October 1985, 0 670 80760 5
Christopher Reid
What the light was like by Amy Clampitt. Faber, 110 pp., £4, February 1986, 0 571 13814 4 Facing Nature by John Updike. Deutsch, 110 pp., £9.95, January 1986, 0 233 97798 8 Nero by Jeremy Reed. Cape, 128 pp., £4.95, November 1985, 0 224 02346 2 V. by Tony Harrison. Bloodaxe, 36 pp., £8.95, December 1985, 0 906427 98 3 Dramatic Verse: 1973-1985 by Tony Harrison. Bloodaxe, 448 pp., £20, December 1985, 0 906427 81 9 Sky Ray Lolly by Fiona Pitt-Kethley. Chatto, 64 pp., £3.95, April 1986, 0 7011 3046 6 The Tower of Glass by Fiona Pitt-Kethley. Mariscat, £3, September 1985, 0 946588 07 4 Making cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope. Faber, 65 pp., £7.95, March 1986, 0 571 13977 9
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Diary: Life in Hastings
Michael Wilding
The Image, and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Cape, 310 pp., £9.95, February 1986, 0 224 02357 8
Gareth Reeves
Poem: ‘Bob Tombs’
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