Vol. 12 No. 8 · 19 April 1990
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Vol. 12 No. 8 · 19 April 1990
Michael Ignatieff
The Other Russia: The Experience of Exile by Michael Glenny and Norman Stone. Faber, 475 pp., £14.99, March 1990, 0 571 13574 9 Inferences on a Sabre by Claudio Magris, translated by Mark Thompson. Polygon, 87 pp., £9.95, May 1990, 0 7486 6036 4
Letters
Nicholas Benda, Raakesh Ibraheem Anant, Alan Sinfield, Galen Strawson, G.H. Woodham, John McMurtry, Philip Martin
John Klier
Russophobia
Sean Wilentz
America’s Rome. Vol I: Classical Rome by William Vance. Yale, 454 pp., £19.95, September 1989, 0 300 03670 1 America’s Rome. Vol II: Catholic and Contemporary Rome by William Vance. Yale, 498 pp., £19.95, September 1989, 0 300 04453 4
Paul Foot
War without Honour by Fred Holroyd and Nick Bainbridge. Medium, 184 pp., £6.95, November 1989, 1 872398 00 6
J.D.F. Jones
My Traitor’s Heart by Rian Malan. Bodley Head, 349 pp., £14.95, April 1990, 0 370 31354 2
R.W. Johnson
R.W. Johnson pays his respects to Mrs Luthuli
Frank Kermode
Letters of Leonard Woolf edited by Frederic Spotts. Weidenfeld, 616 pp., £30, March 1990, 0 297 79635 6
Sam Sifton
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a spy through a maze of computer espionage by Clifford Stoll. Bodley Head, 326 pp., £12.95, February 1990, 0 370 31433 6
George Steiner
Spinoza and Other Heretics. Vol. I: The Marrano of Reason by Yirmiyahu Yovel. Princeton, 244 pp., $24.50, January 1990, 0 691 07344 9 Spinoza and Other Heretics. Vol. II: The Adventures of Immanence by Yirmiyahu Yovel. Princeton, 225 pp., £29.50, January 1990, 0 691 07346 5
J.P. Stern
Is this right?
Alan Donagan
Ethics after Babel: The Languages of Morals and their Discontents by Jeffrey Stout. Beacon, 338 pp., $27.50, June 1988, 0 8070 1402 8
Vicki Feaver
Two Poems
Paul Connerton
Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Parts I-III edited by Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi. Zone, 480 pp., £35.95, May 1989, 0 942299 25 6
David Nokes
Daniel Defoe: His Life by Paula Backscheider. Johns Hopkins, 671 pp., £20.50, November 1989, 0 8018 3785 5
Edward Timms
Thomas Mann and his Family by Marcel Reich-Ranicki, translated by Ralph Manheim. Collins, 230 pp., £20, August 1989, 9780002158374
Peter Campbell
The World of Nagaraj by R.K. Narayan. Heinemann, 186 pp., £12.95, March 1990, 0 434 49617 0 The Great World by David Malouf. Chatto, 330 pp., £12.95, April 1990, 0 7011 3415 1 The Shoe by Gordon Legge. Polygon, 181 pp., £7.95, December 1989, 0 7486 6080 1 Trying to grow by Firdaus Kanga. Bloomsbury, 242 pp., £13.95, February 1990, 0 7475 0549 7
Peter Pulzer
Diary: In East Berlin
Caroline Humphrey
The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science by Londa Schiebinger. Harvard, 355 pp., £23.50, November 1989, 0 674 57623 3 Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science by Donna Haraway. Routledge, 486 pp., £40, January 1990, 0 415 90114 6
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