Vol. 12 No. 5 · 8 March 1990
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Vol. 12 No. 5 · 8 March 1990
Christopher Hitchens
The Dialectic of Change by Boris Kagarlitsky, translated by Rick Simon. Verso, 393 pp., £29.95, January 1990, 0 86091 258 2
Letters
Robin Blackburn, Christopher Walker, Galen Strawson, Stuart Proffitt
Neal Ascherson
The Uses of Adversity by Timothy Garton Ash. Granta, 352 pp., £5.99, September 1989, 0 14 014018 2
Martin Plaut
South Africa’s Left
Salman Rushdie
Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye by Andrew Robinson. Deutsch, 412 pp., £17.95, November 1989, 0 233 98473 9
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
The British Conquest and Dominion of India by Penderel Moon. Duckworth, 1235 pp., £60, April 1989, 0 7156 2169 6 Raj by Gita Mehta. Cape, 463 pp., £12.95, June 1989, 0 224 01988 0 The Last Days of the Raj by Trevor Royle. Joseph, 291 pp., £15.95, June 1989, 0 7181 2904 0
Angela Carter
Louise Brooks by Barry Paris. Hamish Hamilton, 640 pp., £20, February 1990, 0 241 12541 3
Philip Horne
Emotion Pictures: Reflections on the Cinema by Wim Wenders, translated by Sean Whiteside and Michael Hofmann. Faber, 148 pp., £12.99, November 1989, 0 571 15271 6 Scorsese on Scorsese by Martin Scorsese, edited by David Thompson and Ian Christie. Faber, 178 pp., £12.99, November 1989, 9780571141036
Les Murray
Two Poems
Jeremy Harding
The View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn. Granta, 459 pp., £14.95, September 1989, 0 14 014200 2 Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally. Hodder, 320 pp., £12.95, September 1989, 0 340 41517 7
Anthony Howard
Alan Moorehead by Tom Pocock. Bodley Head, 311 pp., £16.95, February 1990, 0 370 31261 9 Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir by Carl Bernstein. Macmillan, 254 pp., £15.95, January 1990, 0 333 52135 8 Downstart by Brian Inglis. Chatto, 298 pp., £15.95, January 1990, 0 7011 3390 2
John Lanchester
The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer by Tom Dardis. Abacus, 292 pp., £3.99, February 1990, 0 349 10143 4
Danny Karlin
The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams. Faber, 307 pp., £12.99, March 1990, 0 571 14242 7 The Other Occupant by Peter Benson. Macmillan, 168 pp., £12.95, February 1990, 0 333 52509 4 Possession by A.S. Byatt. Chatto, 511 pp., £13.95, March 1990, 0 7011 3260 4
Charles Nicholl
Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, edited by Roma Gill. Black, 109 pp., £3.95, December 1989, 0 7136 3231 3 Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare by John Mebane. Nebraska, 309 pp., £26.95, July 1989, 0 8032 3133 4 Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance by William Huffman. Routledge, 252 pp., £30, November 1989, 0 415 00129 3 Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England by Patrick Curry. Polity, 238 pp., £27.50, September 1989, 0 7456 0604 0
Raymond Fancher
Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c.1848-c.1918 by Daniel Pick. Cambridge, 275 pp., £27.50, October 1989, 0 521 36021 8 Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism 1870-1945 by Paul Weindling. Cambridge, 641 pp., £55, October 1989, 0 521 36381 0
James Fox
Diary: On Drum Magazine
Nicholas Penny
The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. IV, Parts I-II: From the American Revolution to World War One by Hugh Honour. Harvard, 379 pp., £34.95, April 1989, 9780939594177 Primitive Art in Civilised Places by Sally Price. Chicago, 147 pp., £15.95, December 1989, 0 226 68063 0 The Return of Cultural Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield. Cambridge, 361 pp., £32.50, February 1990, 0 521 33319 9
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