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Vol. 9 No. 3 · 5 February 1987
Benedict Anderson
Old Corruption
Letters
A.N. Wilson, Barbara Everett, Judith Cook, David Stafford-Clark
Karl Miller
Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński. Picador, 136 pp., £8.95, February 1987, 0 330 29844 5
Danny Karlin
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan by Robert Shelton. New English Library, 573 pp., £14.95, October 1986, 0 450 04843 8
Susan Sontag
Dancer and the Dance
Mary Midgley
Adam’s Task: Calling animals by name by Vicki Hearne. Heinemann, 274 pp., £10.95, February 1987, 0 434 31421 8
Tom Shippey
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction by Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove. Gollancz, 511 pp., £15, October 1986, 0 575 03942 6 Eon by Greg Bear. Gollancz, 504 pp., £10.95, October 1986, 0 575 03861 6 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams. Heinemann, 590 pp., £9.95, September 1986, 0 434 00920 2 Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by Philip K. Dick. Gollancz, 199 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 0 575 03875 6 The Watcher by Jane Palmer. Women’s Press, 177 pp., £2.50, September 1986, 0 7043 4038 0 I, Vampire by Jody Scott. Women’s Press, 206 pp., £2.50, September 1986, 0 7043 4036 4
Michael Dibdin
Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz. Picador, 278 pp., £3.50, January 1987, 0 330 29753 8
Frank Kermode
The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov. Picador, 127 pp., £8.95, January 1987, 0 330 29666 3
Francis Spufford
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway. Hamish Hamilton, 247 pp., £9.95, February 1987, 0 241 11998 7
John Bayley
Jane Austen by Tony Tanner. Macmillan, 291 pp., £20, November 1986, 0 333 32317 3
Susannah Clapp
Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography by Merryn Williams. Macmillan, 217 pp., £27.50, October 1986, 0 333 37647 1 Chronicles of Carlingford: The Perpetual Curate by Mrs Oliphant. Virago, 540 pp., £4.50, February 1987, 0 86068 786 4 Chronicles of Carlingford: Salem Chapel by Mrs Oliphant. Virago, 461 pp., £3.95, August 1986, 0 86068 723 6 Chronicles of Carlingford: The Rector by Mrs Oliphant. Virago, 192 pp., £3.50, August 1986, 0 86068 728 7
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman by C.O. Brink. James Clark, 243 pp., £11.95, February 1986, 0 227 67872 9 Latin Poets and Roman Life by Jasper Griffin. Duckworth, 226 pp., £24, January 1986, 0 7156 1970 5 The Mirror of Myth: Classical Themes and Variations by Jasper Griffin. Faber, 144 pp., £15, February 1986, 0 571 13805 5
Matt Simpson
Two Poems
C.H. Roberts
Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox. Viking, 799 pp., £17.95, October 1986, 0 670 80848 2
David Rieff
Diary: Cuban Miami
Walter Nash
The Red Men by Patrick McGinley. Cape, 304 pp., £10.95, January 1987, 0 224 02386 1 Chat Show by Terence de Vere White. Gollancz, 207 pp., £9.95, January 1987, 0 575 03910 8 Leaden Wings by Zhang Jie, translated by Gladys Yang. Virgo, 180 pp., £9.95, January 1987, 0 86068 759 7 Russian Novel by Edward Kuznetsov, translated by Jennifer Bradshaw. Quartet, 285 pp., £12.95, January 1987, 0 7043 2522 5 Richard Robertovich by Mark Frankland. Murray, 216 pp., £9.95, January 1987, 0 7195 4330 4
D.A.N. Jones
The Progress of Love by Alice Munro. Chatto, 309 pp., £9.95, January 1987, 0 7011 3161 6 Ruth by Jeremy Cooper. Hutchinson, 187 pp., £9.95, November 1986, 0 09 167110 8
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