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Vol. 11 No. 12 · 22 June 1989
George Ball
New World
Letters
A.J. Ayer, Colin McGinn, J.P. Stern, Anders Ferm, Maqbool Aziz, John Haffenden, C.K. Stead, Peter Cadogan, Jonathan Raban, A. Banerjee
Don Cook
Memoirs by Andrei Gromyko, translated by Harold Shukman. Hutchinson, 365 pp., £16.95, May 1989, 0 09 173808 3 Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy by Anders Stephanson. Harvard, 424 pp., $35, April 1989, 0 674 50265 5
Ross McKibbin
Politics for a Rational Left: Political Writings, 1977-88 by Eric Hobsbawm. Verso, 250 pp., £29.95, May 1989, 0 86091 246 9
Peter Pulzer
Mrs Thatcher’s Universities
Linda Colley
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama. Viking, 948 pp., £20, May 1989, 0 670 81012 6 The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle. Oxford, 466 pp., £17.50, May 1989, 0 19 822781 7 The Shadow of the Guillotine: Britain and the French Revolution by David Bindman. British Museum, 232 pp., £14.95, June 1989, 0 7141 1637 8
Jerome McGann
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century by Greil Marcus. Secker, 496 pp., £14.95, June 1989, 0 436 27338 1
Hugo Williams
Poem: ‘The Apotheosis of Sunny Jim’
Zachary Leader
Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson. Deutsch, 273 pp., £11.95, May 1989, 0 233 98392 9 The Burnt House by Adam Lively. Simon and Schuster, 264 pp., £12.95, May 1989, 0 671 69999 7 Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde by Emma Tennant. Faber, 121 pp., £10.99, June 1989, 0 571 15242 2 The Magic Drum by Emma Tennant. Viking, 142 pp., £11.95, May 1989, 0 670 82556 5
Craig Raine
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays 1967-87 by Chinua Achebe. Heinemann, 130 pp., £10.95, January 1988, 0 435 91000 0
Colin Thubron
What am I doing here by Bruce Chatwin. Cape, 367 pp., £12.95, May 1989, 0 224 02634 8
John Bayley
The Essential Wyndham Lewis edited by Julian Symons. Deutsch, 380 pp., £17.95, April 1989, 0 233 98376 7
Frank Kermode
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes. Cape, 320 pp., £10.95, June 1989, 0 224 02669 0
Philip Horne and Danny Karlin
Diary: Million Dollar Bashers
Julian Rushton
Berlioz 1803-1832: The Making of an Artist by David Cairns. Deutsch, 586 pp., £25, February 1989, 0 233 97994 8
Alan Rusbridger
The Whitelaw Memoirs by William Whitelaw. Aurum, 280 pp., £14.95, May 1989, 1 85410 028 9
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