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Vol. 8 No. 8 · 8 May 1986
Edward Said
America and Libya
Letters
A.J. Ayer, Michael Fenn, Matthew Kalman, The Gilmours, Ludovic Kennedy, Max Saunders, Nora Gaines
Philip Roth
Pictures of Malamud
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘On Wings of Song’
Adam Phillips
Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews by Sander Gilman. Johns Hopkins, 461 pp., £25.10, March 1986, 0 8018 3276 4
Graham Hough
To the Kwai and Back: War Drawings 1939-1945 by Ronald Searle. Collins/Imperial War Museum, 192 pp., £15, March 1986, 0 00 217436 7 A World Apart by Gustav Herling, translated by Joseph Marek. Heinemann, 262 pp., £9.95, April 1986, 0 434 35710 3
Lord Goodman
Freedom of Speech by Eric Barendt. Oxford, 314 pp., £35, November 1985, 0 19 825381 8 The Espionage of the Saints: Two Essays on Silence and the State by David Caute. Hamish Hamilton, 212 pp., £12.95, January 1986, 9780241117507 A Question of Judgment by Sara Keays. Quintessential Press, 312 pp., £9.95, November 1985, 1 85138 000 0
John Bayley
Duff Cooper: The Authorised Biography by John Charmley. Weidenfeld, 265 pp., £12.95, April 1986, 0 297 78857 4
Richard Rorty
The Contingency of Selfhood
Philip Horne
Falling apart by Nicholas Salaman. Secker, 190 pp., £9.95, April 1986, 0 436 44087 3 Memoirs of Many in One by Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray, edited by Patrick White. Cape, 192 pp., £8.95, April 1986, 0 224 02371 3 Free Agents by Max Apple. Faber, 197 pp., £9.95, March 1986, 0 571 13852 7
Clive James
Poem: ‘Clive James gives his regards to Sydney’
Harry Cummins
Poem: ‘Remembering Zora Cross, the Love Poet of Queensland’
Michael Wilding
A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey. Viking, 331 pp., £10.95, February 1986, 0 670 80707 9
Gilbert Phelps
12 Edmondstone Street by David Malouf. Chatto, 134 pp., £9.95, October 1985, 0 7011 3970 6 The Shakespeare Wallah by Geoffrey Kendal and Clare Colvin. Sidgwick, 186 pp., £12.95, March 1986, 0 283 99230 1 Children of the Country: Coast to Coast across Africa by Joseph Hone. Hamish Hamilton, 258 pp., £12.95, March 1986, 0 241 11742 9
D.A.N. Jones
The Nuclear Age by Tim O’Brien. Collins, 312 pp., £10.95, March 1986, 0 00 223015 1 Acts of Faith by Hans Koning. Gollancz, 182 pp., £8.95, February 1986, 9780575037441 A Funny Dirty Little War by Osvaldo Soriano, translated by Nick Caistor. Readers International, 108 pp., £7.95, March 1986, 0 930523 17 2 Maps by Nuruddin Farah. Picador, 246 pp., £3.50, March 1986, 0 330 28710 9 Tennis and the Masai by Nicholas Best. Hutchinson, 176 pp., £8.95, March 1986, 0 09 163770 8 Dear Shadows by Max Egremont. Secker, 310 pp., £9.95, March 1986, 0 436 14160 4
R.W. Johnson
Diary: Alan Taylor, Oxford Don
Michael Ignatieff
The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace. Chatto, 230 pp., £10.95, February 1986, 0 7011 2712 0
Karl Miller
Parliamentary Debates: Hansard, Vol. 95, No 94 HMSO, £2.50
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