Vol. 11 No. 9 · 4 May 1989
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Vol. 11 No. 9 · 4 May 1989
Allon White
Too Close to the Bone
Letters
Marjorie Perloff, Douglas Fowler, Mark Roskill, J.B. Trapp
Julian Barnes
Flaubert: A Biography by Herbert Lottman. Methuen, 396 pp., £17.95, April 1989, 0 413 41770 0
Frank Kermode
A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul. Viking, 307 pp., £14.95, April 1989, 0 670 82415 1 Allen Tate: A Recollection by Walter Sullivan. Louisiana State, 117 pp., $16.95, November 1988, 0 8071 1481 2 Self-Consciousness by John Updike. Deutsch, 245 pp., £12.95, May 1989, 0 233 98390 2
V.G. Kiernan
Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven Zipperstein. Peter Halban, 700 pp., £30, January 1989, 1 870015 19 3 A History of Islamic Societies by Ira Lapidus. Cambridge, 1002 pp., £35, July 1988, 0 521 22552 3
Ian Hacking
Representation and Reality by Hilary Putnam. MIT, 136 pp., £14.95, September 1988, 0 262 16108 7 Mental Content by Colin McGinn. Blackwell, 218 pp., £25, January 1989, 0 631 16369 7
Selima Hill
Poem: ‘The Hare’
Mary Douglas
The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia by Marilyn Strathern. California, 422 pp., $40, December 1988, 0 520 06423 2
David Underdown
Village Revolts: Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England 1509-1640 by Roger Manning. Oxford, 354 pp., £35, February 1988, 0 19 820116 8
Linda Colley
The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians edited by John Cannon, R.H.C. Davis, William Doyle and Jack Greene. Blackwell, 480 pp., £39.95, September 1988, 9780631147084 Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian, 1772-1794 by Patricia Craddock. Johns Hopkins, 432 pp., £19, February 1989, 0 8018 3720 0 Gibbon: Making History by Roy Porter. Palgrave, 187 pp., £14.95, February 1989, 0 312 02728 1 Macaulay by Owen Dudley Edwards. Trafalgar Square, 160 pp., £5.95, October 1988, 9780297794684 Acton by Hugh Tulloch. Trafalgar Square, 144 pp., £5.95, October 1988, 0 297 79470 1
Nicholas Penny
Diary: Getting Rid of the Curators
Walter Nash
The Book of Evidence by John Banville. Secker, 220 pp., £10.95, March 1989, 0 436 03267 8 Carn by Patrick McCabe. Aidan Ellis, 252 pp., £11.50, March 1989, 0 85628 180 8 The Tryst by Michael Dibdin. Faber, 168 pp., £10.99, April 1989, 0 571 15450 6 Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson. Macmillan, 264 pp., £12.95, March 1989, 0 333 45194 5
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