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Vol. 8 No. 13 · 24 July 1986
Paul Foot
Shootdown: The Verdict on KAL 007 by R.W. Johnson. Chatto, 335 pp., £10.95, May 1986, 0 7011 2983 2
Letters
Gabriel Josipovici, Nicholas Jacobs, Richard Bowring, Anthony Thwaite, David Norbrook, C.K. Stead
Frank Kermode
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America by Martin Amis. Cape, 208 pp., £9.95, July 1986, 0 224 02385 3
Paul Addison
The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation by Correlli Barnett. Macmillan, 359 pp., £14.95, March 1986, 0 333 35376 5 The Great War and the British People by J.M. Winter. Macmillan, 360 pp., £25, February 1986, 0 333 26582 3
Jose Harris
Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931-1937 edited by Michael Bloch. Weidenfeld, 308 pp., £12.95, May 1986, 0 297 78804 3 Rat Week: An Essay on the Abdication by Osbert Sitwell. Joseph, 78 pp., £7.95, May 1986, 0 7181 1859 6
Alan Macfarlane
Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 by J.M. Beattie. Oxford, 663 pp., £48, April 1986, 0 19 820057 9
David Saunders-Wilson
Prisons and the Process of Justice by Andrew Rutherford. Oxford, 217 pp., £5.95, June 1986, 0 19 281932 1 Growing out of Crime: Society and Young People in Trouble by Andrew Rutherford. Penguin, 189 pp., £3.95, January 1986, 0 14 022383 5
Richard Rorty
The Contingency of Community
A.J. Ayer
World Cup
John Bayley
Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism by Mark Krupnick. Northwestern, 207 pp., $25.95, April 1986, 0 8101 0712 0
Tom Paulin
Poem: ‘I am nature’
Patrick Parrinder
A Short History of Irish Literature by Seamus Deane. Hutchinson, 282 pp., £15, March 1986, 0 09 161360 4 The Peoples of Ireland by Liam de Paor. Hutchinson, 344 pp., £15, April 1986, 9780091561406 Portrait of Ireland by Liam de Paor. Rainbow, 192 pp., £13.95, May 1986, 1 85120 004 5 The Complete Dramatic Works by Samuel Beckett. Faber, 476 pp., £12.50, April 1986, 0 571 13821 7 The Beckett Country: An Exhibition for Samuel Beckett’s 80th Birthday by Eoin O’Brien and James Knowlson. Black Cat, 97 pp., £5, May 1986, 0 948050 03 9
Patricia Craig
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse edited by Thomas Kinsella. Oxford, 423 pp., £12.50, May 1986, 0 19 211868 4 The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry edited by Paul Muldoon. Faber, 415 pp., £10.95, May 1986, 0 571 13760 1 Irish Poetry after Joyce by Dillon Johnston. Dolmen, 336 pp., £20, September 1986, 0 85105 437 4
Nobuko Albery
Principles of Classical Japanese Literature edited by Earl Miner. Princeton, 281 pp., £25, August 1985, 0 691 06635 3 The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature by Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri and Robert Morrell. Princeton, 570 pp., £39.50, March 1986, 0 691 06599 3 Mitford’s Japan: The Memoirs and Recollections, 1866-1906, of Algernon Bertram Mitford, the First Lord Redesdale edited by Hugh Cortazzi. Athlone, 270 pp., £18, October 1985, 0 485 11275 2
Jonathan Barnes
The World of Thought in Ancient China by Benjamin Schwartz. Harvard, 490 pp., £23.50, January 1986, 0 674 96190 0
Bryan Appleyard
Truth and Lies in Literature: Reviews and Essays by Stephen Vizinczey. Hamish Hamilton, 399 pp., £12.95, June 1986, 0 241 11805 0 In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of A.V. by Stephen Vizinczey. Hamish Hamilton, 192 pp., £8.95, February 1985, 0 241 11378 4
Patrick Hughes
Diary: What do artists do?
Peter Campbell
Richard Rogers by Bryan Appleyard. Faber, 271 pp., £9.95, March 1986, 0 571 13976 0 A Concrete Atlantis by Reyner Banham. MIT, 265 pp., £16.50, June 1986, 0 262 02244 3 William Richard Lethaby by Godfrey Rubens. Architectural Press, 320 pp., £30, April 1986, 0 85139 350 0
Julian Critchley
A Matter of Honour by Jeffrey Archer. Hodder, 350 pp., £9.95, June 1986, 0 340 39365 3
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