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Vol. 10 No. 15 · 1 September 1988
Ronald Bryden
Olivier by Anthony Holden. Weidenfeld, 504 pp., £16, May 1988, 0 297 79089 7
Letters
Ron Taylor, Su Yüan-hsi, Jonathan Culler, Cynthia Chase, Peter Gay, Betty Caplan, N.P.B. Freeman, Paul Addison, Peter Jones, Peter Fryer, Henry Hope Reed, Montagu Bream, Bernard Denvir
Conrad Russell
Bertrand Russell: A Political Life by Alan Ryan. Allen Lane, 226 pp., £16.95, June 1988, 0 7139 9005 8
David Sylvester
Late Picasso at the Tate
Nicholas Penny
Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. Weidenfeld, 559 pp., £16, June 1988, 0 02 977935 9
Sissela Bok
Sartre: A Life by Annie Cohen-Solal, translated by Anna Cancogni. Heinemann, 591 pp., £17.95, October 1987, 0 434 14020 1 Writing against: A Biography of Sartre by Ronald Hayman. Weidenfeld, 487 pp., £14.95, October 1986, 0 297 79002 1 Sartre: Romantic Rationalist by Iris Murdoch. Chatto, 158 pp., £11.95, September 1987, 0 7011 3095 4
Michael Young
East End 1888: A Year in a London Borough among the Labouring Poor by William Fishman. Duckworth, 343 pp., £18.95, June 1988, 0 7156 2174 2
Stephen Ambrose
Citizen Cohn by Nicholas von Hoffman. Harrap, 483 pp., £12.95, August 1988, 0 245 54605 7
Jeremy Harding
The War in Angola
Ian Hacking
The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science by P.N. Johnson-Laird. Harvard/Fontana, 444 pp., £23.50, May 1988, 0 674 15615 3
Matt Simpson
Poem: ‘Three from the Ward’
P.N. Johnson-Laird
The Intentional Stance by Daniel Dennett. MIT, 388 pp., £22.50, January 1988, 9780262040938
Linda Colley
The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy by V.G. Kiernan. Oxford, 360 pp., £25, March 1988, 0 19 822566 0 History, Classes and Nation-States: Selected Writings of Victor Kiernan edited by Harvey Kaye. Blackwell, 284 pp., £27.50, June 1988, 0 7456 0424 2
Michael Mason
Francis Place, 1771-1854: The Life of a Remarkable Radical by Dudley Miles. Harvester, 206 pp., £40, April 1988, 0 7108 1225 6 Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 by Iain McCalman. Cambridge, 338 pp., £27.50, March 1988, 0 521 30755 4
Stephen Wall
Quinn’s Book by William Kennedy. Cape, 289 pp., £11.95, June 1988, 0 224 02580 5 In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster. Faber, 188 pp., £9.95, June 1988, 0 571 14965 0
Mona Simpson
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Edith Grossman. Cape, 352 pp., £11.95, June 1988, 0 224 02570 8
Anthony Thwaite
The Truth about Lorin Jones by Alison Lurie. Joseph, 294 pp., £11.95, July 1988, 0 7181 3095 2 Latecomers by Anita Brookner. Cape, 248 pp., £10.95, August 1988, 0 224 02554 6 Where the rivers meet by John Wain. Hutchinson, 563 pp., £12.95, June 1988, 9780091736170 About the Body by Christopher Burns. Secker, 193 pp., £10.95, August 1988, 0 436 09784 2 Stories by Elizabeth Jolley. Viking, 312 pp., £11.95, July 1988, 0 670 82113 6
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Diary: The Biographer’s Dilemma
John Sutherland
Mother London by Michael Moorcock. Secker, 496 pp., £9.95, June 1988, 0 436 28461 8 The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer. Constable, 128 pp., £9.95, July 1988, 0 09 468480 4 Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann. Virago, 154 pp., £10.95, August 1988, 9780860688471 Happiness by Theodore Zeldin. Collins Harvill, 320 pp., £11.95, September 1988, 0 00 271302 0
Richard Devine
Poem: ‘The Prometheus Ice Company’
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