Vol. 12 No. 10 · 24 May 1990
Browse other issues from this year
Vol. 12 No. 10 · 24 May 1990
Ross McKibbin
Mrs Thatcher’s Ecstasy
Letters
Paula Backscheider, Malcolm Deas, Brian Quinn Robbins, S.J. Fisher, James Wood
W.G. Runciman
The Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain 1880-1950 by Ross McKibbin. Oxford, 308 pp., £35, April 1990, 0 19 822160 6
Adam Phillips
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia by Julia Kristeva, translated by Leon Roudiez. Columbia, 300 pp., $33.50, October 1989, 0 231 06706 2 Surviving trauma: Loss, Literature and Psychoanalysis by David Aberbach. Yale, 192 pp., £16.95, February 1990, 0 300 04557 3
Gabriele Annan
A Young Girl’s Diary edited by Daniel Gunn and Patrick Guyomard.189 pp., £12.95, April 1990, 0 04 440273 2
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Poem: ‘No Smoking’
John Bayley
William Gerhardie: A Biography by Dido Davies. Oxford, 411 pp., £25, April 1990, 0 19 211794 7 Memoirs of a Polyglot by William Gerhardie. Robin Clark, 381 pp., £5.95, April 1990, 0 86072 111 6 Futility by William Gerhardie. Robin Clark, 198 pp., £4.95, April 1990, 0 86072 112 4 God’s Fifth Column: A Biography of the Age 1890-1940 by William Gerhardie, edited by Michael Holroyd and Robert Skidelsky. Hogarth, 360 pp., £8.95, April 1990, 0 7012 0887 2
John Sturrock
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977 edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew Bruccoli. Weidenfeld, 582 pp., £29.95, February 1990, 0 297 81034 0
Frank Kermode
Where I fell to Earth: A Life in Four Places by Peter Conrad. Chatto, 252 pp., £16, February 1990, 0 7011 3490 9 May Week was in June by Clive James. Cape, 249 pp., £12.95, June 1990, 0 224 02787 5
Harriet Ritvo
The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine and Reform in Radical London by Adrian Desmond. Chicago, 503 pp., £27.95, March 1990, 0 226 14346 5
Peter Campbell
Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos.135 pp., £12.95, November 1989, 0 670 83008 9 The Culture of Print edited by Roger Chartier.351 pp., £35, September 1989, 0 7456 0575 3 Symbols of Ideal Life by Maren Stange. Cambridge, 190 pp., £25, June 1989, 0 521 32441 6 The Lines of My Hand by Robert Frank.£30, September 1989, 0 436 16256 3
Mark Ford
Two Poems
Rosalind Mitchison
The British Isles: A History of Four Nations by Hugh Kearney. Cambridge, 236 pp., £17.50, March 1989, 0 521 33420 9 Cromartie: Highland Life 1650-1914 by Eric Richards and Monica Clough.518 pp., £29.50, August 1989, 0 08 037732 7 Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 by Paul Kléber Monod. Cambridge, 408 pp., £30, November 1989, 0 521 33534 5
Robert Crawford
O Choille gu Bearradh/From Wood to Ridge: Collected Poems in Gaelic and English by Sorley MacLean. Carcanet, 317 pp., £18.95, October 1989, 0 85635 844 4
John Lanchester
Chicago Loop by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 183 pp., £12.99, April 1990, 0 241 12949 4 Lies of Silence by Brian Moore. Bloomsbury, 194 pp., £12.99, April 1990, 0 7475 0610 8 Amongst Women by John McGahern. Faber, 184 pp., £12.99, May 1990, 0 571 14284 2 The Condition of Ice by Christopher Burns. Secker, 170 pp., £12.95, April 1990, 0 436 19989 0
Jeremy Harding
Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop by Charles Shaar Murray. Faber, 247 pp., £7.99, November 1989, 0 571 14936 7 Autobiography by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe. Macmillan, 400 pp., £13.95, February 1990, 0 333 53195 7
D.A.N. Jones
That was business, this is personal: The Changing Faces of Professional Crime by Duncan Campbell.234 pp., £14.95, April 1990, 0 436 19990 4
Wendy Steiner
Diary: In London
Nicholas Canny
The Emancipist: Daniel O’Connell, 1830-1847 by Oliver Mac Donagh. Weidenfeld, 372 pp., £20, October 1989, 0 297 79637 2
Christopher Hitchens
Against the Grain: An Autobiography by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Michael Glenny. Cape, 215 pp., £12.95, March 1990, 0 224 02749 2
Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.
Sign up to our newsletter
For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.