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
Move your shadow: South Africa Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
Capitalism and Apartheid: South Africa 1910-1984 by Merle Lipton
The Militarisation of South African Politics by Kenneth Grundy

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

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
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen by Judith Thurman

Seamus Heaney

Poem: ‘Diptych’

Ahdaf Soueif

After a Funeral by Diana Athill

J.P. Stern

The Conscience of Words by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
The Human Province by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Paul Seabright

Melanie Klein: Her World and her Work by Phyllis Grosskurth
Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925 edited by Perry Meisel and Walter Kendrick

E.S. Turner

Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman by Malcolm Barnes
Midway on the Waves by James Lees-Milne

Blair Worden

The Prose Works of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke edited by John Gouws

Richard Wollheim

Diary: In South Africa

Graham Hough

A Forest of Flowers by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Fools, and Other Stories by Njabulo Ndebele
Hungry Flames, and Other Black South African Stories edited by Mbulelo Mzamane
Coming to Birth by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
Contre-Jour: A Triptych after Pierre Bonnard by Gabriel Josipovici
The Seven Ages by Eva Figes

Sarah Maguire

Poem: ‘May Day, 1986’

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