Vol. 9 No. 12 · 25 June 1987
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Vol. 9 No. 12 · 25 June 1987
V.G. Kiernan
V.G. Kiernan on treason
Letters
Denis Donoghue, Padraig O Conchuir, John Pepall, Shirrell Larsen, Paul Johnson, John-Paul Flintoff, Mary Lewis, Gillian Beer, John Nicoll
M.F. Perutz
Klaus Fuchs: The man who stole the atom bomb by Norman Moss. Grafton, 216 pp., £12.95, April 1987, 0 246 13158 6
Roy Porter
Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin. Secker, 259 pp., £10.95, June 1987, 0 436 13961 8
Noel Russell
The Provisional IRA by Patrick Bishop and Eamonn Mallie. Heinemann, 374 pp., £12.95, June 1987, 0 434 07410 1 Ten Men Dead by David Beresford. Grafton, 432 pp., £3.50, May 1987, 0 586 06533 4
Frank Kermode
Close Quarters by William Golding. Faber, 281 pp., £9.95, June 1987, 0 571 14779 8
John Bayley
Collected Poems by George Barker, edited by Robert Fraser. Faber, 838 pp., £27.50, May 1987, 0 571 13972 8 By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept by Elizabeth Smart, introduced by Brigid Brophy. Grafton, 126 pp., £2.50, July 1987, 0 586 02083 7
Marilyn Butler
Computation into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen’s Novels and an Experiment in Method by J.F Burrows. Oxford, 245 pp., £25, February 1987, 0 19 812856 8
Raymond Williams
Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the 19th Century by Marjorie Reeves and Warwick Gould. Oxford, 365 pp., £35, March 1987, 0 19 826672 3 Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and Religion in Victorian Literature by Hilary Fraser. Cambridge, 287 pp., £25, January 1987, 0 521 30767 8 The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton edited by John Bradley and Ian Ousby. Cambridge, 537 pp., £45, April 1987, 0 521 32091 7
John Barrell
Past and Present in Art and Taste: Selected Essays by Francis Haskell. Yale, 256 pp., £20, March 1987, 0 300 03607 8
W.J.T. Mitchell
The Golden Age of Criticism: Seven Theses and a Commentary
Ian Hamilton
Poem: ‘An Alternative Agenda’
John Tranter
Poem: ‘Shadow Detail’
Susanne Chowdhury
Poem: ‘I’ve worked it out’
Michael Hofmann
Our Conquest by Gert Hofmann, translated by Christopher Middleton. Carcanet, 281 pp., £9.95, March 1987, 0 85635 687 5
Charles Nicholl
Cuts by Malcolm Bradbury. Hutchinson, 106 pp., £6.95, April 1987, 0 09 168280 0 No, Not Bloomsbury by Malcolm Bradbury. Deutsch, 373 pp., £17.95, May 1987, 9780233980133 The Last Romantics by Caroline Seebohm. Weidenfeld, 322 pp., £10.95, May 1987, 0 297 79056 0 The Magician’s Girl by Doris Grumbach. Hamish Hamilton, 206 pp., £10.95, May 1987, 0 241 12114 0
E.S. Turner
The Golden Oriole: Childhood, Family and Friends in India by Raleigh Trevelyan. Secker, 536 pp., £16.95, May 1987, 0 436 53403 7
Amit Chaudhuri
Poem: ‘St Cyril Road, Bombay’
Francis Spufford
Sugar by A.S. Byatt. Chatto, 224 pp., £10.95, April 1987, 0 7011 3169 1
Doris Grumbach
Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice by Sharon O’Brien. Oxford, 544 pp., £22.50, March 1987, 0 19 504132 1
Karl Miller
Diary: London to Canberra
Paul Driver
Orientation by Pierre Boulez, edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez, translated by Martin Cooper. Faber, 541 pp., £25, July 1986, 9780571138111
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