Vol. 8 No. 12 · 3 July 1986
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Vol. 8 No. 12 · 3 July 1986
R.W. Johnson
South Africa without Apartheid by Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley. California, 315 pp., £15.25, July 1986, 0 520 05769 4 Move your shadow: South Africa Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld. Joseph, 390 pp., £14.95, February 1986, 0 7181 2661 0 Capitalism and Apartheid: South Africa 1910-1984 by Merle Lipton. Gower/Temple Smith, 448 pp., £18.50, September 1985, 0 85117 248 2 The Militarisation of South African Politics by Kenneth Grundy. Tauris, 133 pp., £14.95, May 1986, 1 85043 019 5
Letters
Craig Raine, David Hopkins, Frank Kermode, Paul Addison, Victor Smart, C.J. Cook, Patricia Craig, Keith Bosley, C.A. Latimer, D.G. Wright, Alan Bennett, Richard King, Amanda Wood
Amartya Sen
Is that it? by Bob Geldof and Paul Vallely. Sidgwick, 352 pp., £10.95, May 1986, 0 283 99362 6
Susanne Chowdhury
Poem: ‘Chor Chandia’
Ryszard Kapuściński
Out of Africa
D.A.N. Jones
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Karen Blixen. Penguin, 351 pp., £3.95, January 1986, 0 14 008533 5 Out of Africa by Karen Blixen. Century, 288 pp., £14.95, October 1985, 0 7126 1016 2 Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen by Judith Thurman. Penguin, 511 pp., £3.50, April 1986, 9780140096996
Seamus Heaney
Poem: ‘Diptych’
Ahdaf Soueif
After a Funeral by Diana Athill. Cape, 158 pp., £9.50, February 1986, 0 224 02834 0
J.P. Stern
The Conscience of Words by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Deutsch, 166 pp., £8.95, April 1986, 9780233979007 The Human Province by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Deutsch, 281 pp., £9.85, October 1985, 0 233 97837 2
Paul Seabright
Melanie Klein: Her World and her Work by Phyllis Grosskurth. Hodder, 516 pp., £19.95, June 1986, 0 340 25751 2 Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925 edited by Perry Meisel and Walter Kendrick. Chatto, 360 pp., £14.95, February 1986, 0 7011 3051 2
E.S. Turner
Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman by Malcolm Barnes. Allen and Unwin, 240 pp., £20, May 1986, 9780049201002 Midway on the Waves by James Lees-Milne. Faber, 248 pp., £10.95, October 1985, 0 571 13723 7
Blair Worden
The Prose Works of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke edited by John Gouws. Oxford, 279 pp., £40, March 1986, 0 19 812746 4
Richard Wollheim
Diary: In South Africa
Graham Hough
A Forest of Flowers by Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saros International, 151 pp., £7.95, June 1986, 978 2460 03 6 Fools, and Other Stories by Njabulo Ndebele. Longman, 280 pp., £2.95, June 1986, 0 582 78621 5 Hungry Flames, and Other Black South African Stories edited by Mbulelo Mzamane. Longman, 158 pp., £2.95, June 1986, 0 582 78590 1 Coming to Birth by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. Heinemann, 150 pp., £10.95, June 1986, 0 434 44028 0 Contre-Jour: A Triptych after Pierre Bonnard by Gabriel Josipovici. Carcanet, 137 pp., £8.95, May 1986, 0 85635 641 7 The Seven Ages by Eva Figes. Hamish Hamilton, 186 pp., £9.95, May 1986, 0 241 11874 3
Sarah Maguire
Poem: ‘May Day, 1986’
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