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Vol. 12 No. 13 · 12 July 1990
D.J. Enright
I don’t feel old: The Experience of Later Life by Paul Thompson, Catherine Itzin and Michele Abendstern. Oxford, 290 pp., £17.50, June 1990, 0 19 820147 8
Letters
Julian Zinovieff, Nicolas Walter, Nigel Smith, Boris Ford, Galen Strawson, Saral Waldorf, Harry Kemp
Owen Bennett-Jones
Down with Ceausescu! Long live Iliescu!
Selima Hill
Two Poems
Victor Mallet
Intifada. The Palestinian Uprising: Israel’s Third Front by Ze’ev Schiff and Ehud Ya’ari. Simon and Schuster, 352 pp., £14.95, May 1990, 0 671 67530 3 Winner takes all: A Season in Israel by Stephen Brook. Hamish Hamilton, 363 pp., £16.99, June 1990, 0 241 12635 5
Ian Gilmour
Liberalisms. Essays in Political Philosophy by John Gray. Routledge, 273 pp., £35, August 1989, 0 415 00744 5 The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education edited by Timothy Fuller. Yale, 169 pp., £20, April 1990, 0 300 04344 9 The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott by Paul Franco. Yale, 277 pp., £20, April 1990, 0 300 04686 3 Conservatism by Ted Honderich. Hamish Hamilton, 255 pp., £16.99, June 1990, 0 241 12999 0
George Steiner
Oxford Readings in Vergil’s ‘Aeneid’ edited by S.J. Harrison. Oxford, 488 pp., £45, April 1990, 0 19 814389 3
Barbara Everett
Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989 by Anthony Powell. Heinemann, 501 pp., £20, May 1990, 9780434599288 Haydn and the Valve Trumpet by Craig Raine. Faber, 498 pp., £20, June 1990, 0 571 15084 5
P.N. Furbank
Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare. Hamish Hamilton, 463 pp., £20, June 1990, 0 241 12416 6
Anne Hollander
Laura Ashley: A Life by Design by Anne Sebba. Weidenfeld, 207 pp., £15, May 1990, 0 297 81044 8
Patrick Procktor
A Life with Food by Peter Langan and Brian Sewell. Bloomsbury, 128 pp., £16.99, May 1990, 9780747502203
Alethea Hayter
A Second Self: The Letters of Harriet Granville 1810-1845 edited by Virginia Surtees. Michael Russell, 320 pp., £14.95, April 1990, 0 85955 165 2
Jonathan Coe
Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley. Secker, 551 pp., £14.95, June 1990, 0 436 28854 0
John Lanchester
Diary: Watching the World Cup
D.A.N. Jones
A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times, 1940-59 by Richard Hoggart. Chatto, 225 pp., £14.95, June 1990, 0 7011 3607 3 Tilting at Don Quixote by Nicholas Wollaston. Deutsch, 314 pp., £14.95, June 1990, 0 233 98551 4 Finger Lickin’ Good: A Kentucky Childhood by Paul Levy. Chatto, 202 pp., £13.95, May 1990, 0 7011 3521 2 How Many Miles to Babylon? by Adewale Maja-Pearce. Heinemann, 154 pp., £13.95, June 1990, 0 434 44172 4
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Shadows round the Moon by Roy Heath. Collins, 254 pp., £12.95, May 1990, 0 00 215584 2
T.H. Barrett
The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia edited by Denis Sinor. Cambridge, 518 pp., £60, March 1990, 0 521 24304 1
Onora O’Neill
Diary: In Berlin
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Theory of Religion by Georges Bataille, translated by Robert Hurley. Zone, 126 pp., £16.25, April 1989, 0 942299 08 6 My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man by Georges Bataille, translated by Austryn Wainhouse. Boyars, 222 pp., £13.95, October 1989, 0 7145 2886 2
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