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Vol. 8 No. 19 · 6 November 1986
Alan Ryan
The Enemies Within: The Story of the Miners’ Strike 1984-5 by Ian MacGregor and Rodney Tyler. Collins, 384 pp., £15, October 1986, 0 00 217706 4 A Balance of Power by Jim Prior. Hamish Hamilton, 278 pp., £12.95, October 1986, 9780241119570
Letters
Maurice Cowling, Frank Walbank, Harry Hodgkinson, Rod Edmond, Hanna Segal, Kingsley Amis, Egremont, Ted Hughes, Andrew Motion, Patrick Neill, Wilberforce, Sydney Bailey
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney praises the Scottish poet Sorley MacLean
Ian Hamilton
Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes. Cape, 195 pp., £9.95, September 1986, 0 224 02414 0
Nicholas Spice
Roger’s Version by John Updike. Deutsch, 316 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 0 233 97988 3 The Voyeur by Alberto Moravia, translated by Tim Parks. Secker, 186 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 0 436 28721 8 Dvorak in Love by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson. Chatto, 322 pp., £10.95, September 1986, 0 7011 2994 8 Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi, translated by Ruth Feldman. Joseph, 172 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 0 7181 2726 9
John Kerrigan
Tribute to Freud by H. D. Carcanet, 194 pp., £5.95, August 1985, 0 85635 599 2 In Dora’s Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism edited by Charles Bernheimer and Claire Kahane. Virago, 291 pp., £11.95, October 1985, 0 86068 712 0 The Essentials of Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud, edited by Anna Freud. Hogarth/Institute of Psychoanalysis, 595 pp., £20, March 1986, 0 7012 0720 5 Freud and the Humanities edited by Peregrine Horden. Duckworth, 186 pp., £18, October 1985, 0 7156 1983 7 Freud for Historians by Peter Gay. Oxford, 252 pp., £16.50, January 1986, 0 19 503586 0 The Psychoanalytic Movement by Ernest Gellner. Paladin, 241 pp., £3.50, May 1985, 0 586 08436 3 The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art by Leo Bersani. Columbia, 126 pp., $17.50, April 1986, 0 231 06218 4
M.F. Burnyeat
The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation edited by Jonathan Barnes. Princeton, 1250 pp., £53, August 1984, 0 691 09950 2
Jonathan Barnes
Philosophical Apprenticeships by Hans-Georg Gadamer, translated by Robert Sullivan. MIT, 198 pp., £13.95, October 1985, 0 262 07092 8 The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy by Hans-Georg Gadamer, translated by Christopher Smith. Yale, 182 pp., £18, June 1986, 0 300 03463 6
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘Morphine’
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Sociology in Cambridge
Peter Clarke
The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924-1936 by Harold James. Oxford, 469 pp., £30, March 1986, 0 19 821972 5 The Making of Keynes’s General Theory by Richard Kahn. Cambridge, 327 pp., £20, May 1984, 9780521253734 Towards the Managed Economy: Keynes, the Treasury and the Fiscal Policy Debate of the 1930s by Roger Middleton. Methuen, 244 pp., £25, September 1985, 0 416 35830 6 Keynes and his Contemporaries edited by G.C. Harcourt. Macmillan, 195 pp., £22.50, October 1985, 0 333 34687 4 The Policy Consequences of John Maynard Keynes edited by Harold Wattel. Macmillan, 157 pp., £29.50, April 1986, 0 333 41340 7
Jane Miller
Thinking Women
June Goodfield
Memoir of a Thinking Radish: An Autobiography by Peter Medawar. Oxford, 209 pp., £12.50, April 1986, 0 19 217737 0
Pat Rogers
Hume and the Heroic Portrait: Studies in 18th-Century Imagery by Edgar Wind, edited by Jaynie Anderson. Oxford, 139 pp., £29.50, May 1986, 0 19 817371 7 Augustan Studies: Essays in honour of Irvin Ehrenpreis edited by Douglas Lane Patey and Timothy Keegan. University of Delaware Press, 270 pp., £24.50, May 1986, 9780874132724 The 18th Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-1789 by James Sambrook. Longman, 290 pp., £15.95, April 1986, 0 582 49306 4
Frank Field
Diary: Reading Kilroy-Silk’s Diary
Denis Donoghue
Write on: Occasional Essays ’65-’85 by David Lodge. Secker, 211 pp., £12.95, September 1986, 0 436 25665 7
Alan Brownjohn
Poem: ‘Profoundest Love’
Denton Fox
The Ages of Man: A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought by J.A. Burrow. Oxford, 211 pp., £19.50, May 1986, 0 19 811188 6
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