Vol. 10 No. 10 · 19 May 1988
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Vol. 10 No. 10 · 19 May 1988
John Ryle
And the band played on: Politics, People and the Aids Epidemic by Randy Shilts. Viking, 630 pp., £15.95, March 1988, 0 670 82270 1 Crisis: Heterosexual Behaviour in the Age of Aids by William Masters, Virginia Johnson and Robert Kilodny. Weidenfeld, 243 pp., £9.95, March 1988, 0 297 79392 6 The Forbidden Zone by Michael Lesy. Deutsch, 250 pp., £11.95, February 1988, 0 233 98203 5
Letters
Cynthia Chase, Geert Lernout, Deepak Lal, Eric Sams, Stanley Wells, David Francis
Angela Carter
On Birth and Madness by Eric Rhode. Duckworth, 222 pp., £14.95, July 1987, 9780715621707
Roy Porter
The Public Health Challenge edited by Stephen Farrow. Hutchinson, 160 pp., £12.95, November 1987, 0 09 173165 8 The Truth about the Aids Panic by Michael Fitzpatrick and Don Milligan. Junius, 68 pp., £1.95, March 1987, 9780948392078 Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830 by Frank Mort. Routledge, 280 pp., £7.95, October 1987, 0 7102 0856 1 Medicine and Labour: The Politics of a Profession by Steve Watkins. Lawrence and Wishart, 272 pp., £6.95, May 1987, 0 85315 639 5
Philip Towle
Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 by Gore Vidal. Deutsch, 244 pp., £11.95, November 1987, 9780233981567 Empire by Gore Vidal. Deutsch, 587 pp., £11.95, November 1987, 0 233 98152 7 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy. Unwin Hyman, 677 pp., £18.95, March 1988, 0 04 909019 4
Karl Miller
The Monument by T. Behrens. Cape, 258 pp., £11.95, May 1988, 0 224 02510 4 The Passion of John Aspinall by Brian Masters. Cape, 360 pp., £12.95, May 1988, 0 224 02353 5
P.W. Atkins
Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain by Anne Harrington. Princeton, 336 pp., £24.70, November 1987, 0 691 08332 0 The Multiple Self edited by Jon Elster. Cambridge, 269 pp., £9.95, September 1987, 0 521 34683 5 Memory by Mary Warnock. Faber, 150 pp., £11.95, October 1987, 0 571 14783 6
A.J. Ayer
A Theory of Determinism: The Mind, Neuroscience and Life-Hopes by Ted Honderich. Oxford, 656 pp., £55, May 1988, 9780198244691
Rosalind Mitchison
The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction by Bernard Bailyn. Tauris, 177 pp., £12.95, April 1987, 1 85043 037 3 Voyagers to the West: Emigration from Britain to America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn. Tauris, 668 pp., £29.50, April 1987, 1 85043 038 1 Migration and Society in Early Modern England edited by Peter Clark and David Souden. Hutchinson, 355 pp., £25, February 1988, 0 09 173220 4 Gypsy-Travellers in 19th-Century Society by David Mayall. Cambridge, 261 pp., £25, February 1988, 0 521 32397 5
John Broome
On Ethics and Economics by Amartya Sen. Blackwell, 131 pp., £14.95, May 1987, 0 631 15494 9 The Standard of Living by Amartya Sen, edited by Geoffrey Hawthorn. Cambridge, 125 pp., £15, September 1987, 0 521 32101 8
Sheldon Rothblatt
War and the Image of Germany: British Academics 1914-1918 by Stuart Wallace. John Donald, 288 pp., £20, March 1988, 0 85976 133 9
James Fenton
Poem: ‘The Milkfish Gatherers’
William Doyle
Joseph II. Vol. I: In the Shadow of Maria Theresa 1741-1780 by Derek Beales. Cambridge, 520 pp., £35, December 1986, 0 521 24240 1 Finance and Government under Maria Theresia 1740-1780 by P.G.M. Dickson. Oxford, 491 pp., £45, August 1987, 0 19 822570 9
David Norbrook
Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution by Michael Wilding. Oxford, 288 pp., £25, September 1987, 0 19 812881 9 Apocalyptic Marvell: The Second Coming in 17th-Century Poetry by Margarita Stocker. Harvester, 381 pp., £32.50, February 1986, 0 7108 0934 4 The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defence of Old Holiday Pastimes by Leah Marcus. Chicago, 319 pp., £23.25, March 1987, 0 226 50451 4 Milton: A Study in Ideology and Form by Christopher Kendrick. Methuen, 240 pp., £25, June 1986, 0 416 01251 5
John Bayley
Story: ‘Innocence’
Dan Jacobson
The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen by John Bayley. Harvester, 197 pp., £35, January 1988, 0 7108 0662 0
Walter Nash
Scandal by Shusaku Endo, translated by Van Gessel. Peter Owen, 237 pp., £11.95, April 1988, 0 7206 0682 9 Hell Screen, Cogwheels, A Fool’s Life by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Eridanos, 145 pp., £13.95, March 1988, 0 941419 02 9 Singular Rebellion by Saiichi Maruya, translated by Dennis Keene. Deutsch, 412 pp., £12.95, March 1988, 0 233 98202 7
Paul Barker
Diary: Bellamy’s Dream
Phillip Knightley
The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln by Bernard Wasserstein. Yale, 327 pp., £16.95, April 1988, 0 300 04076 8
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