Vol. 11 No. 4 · 16 February 1989

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Christopher Killip

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Vol. 11 No. 4 · 16 February 1989

Richard Poirier

America by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner
America Observed: The Newspaper Years of Alistair Cooke by Ronald Wells
American Journals by Albert Camus, translated by Hugh Levick

Letters

Galen Strawson, Nicholas Roe, Stan Smith, Tony Fairman, Keith Walker, Walter Nash, John Barber

R.W. Johnson

The Permanent Revolution: The French Revolution and its Legacy 1789-1989 edited by Geoffrey Best

Angela Carter

Beauty in History: Society, Politics and Personal Appearance c. 1500 to the Present by Arthur Marwick

Jeremy Harding

Matsanga

Christopher Husbands

Racial Consciousness by Michael Banton
Beyond the Mother Country: West Indians and the Notting Hill White Riots by Edward Pilkington
Under Siege: Racism and Violence in Britain Today by Keith Tompson
A Pakistani Community in Britain by Alison Shaw
Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain by Ferdinand Dennis
Black Youth, Racism and the State: The Politics of Ideology and Policy by John Solomos
Integration or Disintegration? Towards a Non-Racist Society by Ray Honeyford

Romesh Gunesekera

Two Poems

Suzanne Scafe

Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke by Brenda Stevenson
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Secole in Many Lands by Mary Secole

Rosemary Ashton

John Henry Newman: A Biography by Ian Ker
James Fitzjames Stephen: Portrait of a Victorian Rationalist by K.J.M. Smith

Michael Mason

The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 by F.M.L. Thompson
Victorian Things by Asa Briggs

Sheldon Rothblatt

Victorian Anthropology by George Stocking

Les Murray

Two Poems

John Sutherland

The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography by Philip Roth

Zachary Leader

Kisses of the Enemy by Rodney Hall
Postcards from Surfers by Helen Garner
Forty-Seventeen by Frank Moorhouse

C.K. Stead

Continuum: New and Later Poems 1972-1988 by Allen Curnow

Tom Lowenstein

Diary: Stories from an Eskimo Village

Michael Wood

Dreams of Roses and Fire by Eyvind Johnson, translated by Erik Friis
Women in a River Landscape by Heinrich Böll, translated by David McLintock
The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman by Aldo Busi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal

John Barton

The Book of God: A Response to the Bible by Gabriel Josipovici
Who wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman

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