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Vol. 12 No. 20 · 25 October 1990
Michael Howard
Impressions from a Journey in Central Europe
Letters
Malathy Sitaram, Jack Treiman, James Bacque, Basil Davidson, D.A. Slade, Paul Crichton, William Arrowsmith, J.P. Stern, Bruno Nightingale
Michael Hofmann
Two Poems
Christopher Huhne
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Ralf Dahrendorf. Chatto CounterBlast Special, 154 pp., £5.99, August 1990, 0 7011 3725 8
Ian Gilmour
The Economic Limits to Modern Politics edited by John Dunn. Polity, 274 pp., £35, July 1990, 0 7456 0827 2
Gordon Brown and Geoff Mulgan
The Competitive Advantage of Nations by Michael Porter. Macmillan, 855 pp., £25, May 1990, 0 333 51804 7
Martyn Crucefix
Poem: ‘Timewise’
Miriam Rothschild
The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson. Springer, 732 pp., DM 198, March 1990, 3 540 52092 9
Michael Young
Down with Age
Glyn Maxwell
Poem: ‘Got me’
John Griffith
Lord Denning: A Biography by Edmund Heward. Weidenfeld, 243 pp., £15, September 1990, 9780297811381
Paul Foot
No Other Choice by George Blake. Cape, 288 pp., £12.99, September 1990, 0 224 03067 1 Inside Intelligence by Anthony Cavendish. Collins, 181 pp., £12.95, October 1990, 9780002157421
Christopher Hitchens
Crossman: The Pursuit of Power by Anthony Howard. Cape, 361 pp., £15.95, October 1990, 0 224 02592 9
P.N. Furbank
A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes. Bodley Head, 514 pp., £20, October 1990, 0 370 30451 9 Killing in Verse and Prose, and Other Essays by Paul Fussell. Bellew, 294 pp., £9.95, October 1990, 0 947792 55 4
Fred D’Aguiar
Poem: ‘A Gift of a Rose’
John Bayley
Yours, Plum: The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse edited by Frances Donaldson. Hutchinson, 269 pp., £16.99, September 1990, 0 09 174639 6
Patrick Parrinder
Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society and the Imagination by Rosalind Williams. MIT, 265 pp., £22.50, March 1990, 9780262231459 The Mask of the Prophet: The Extraordinary Fictions of Jules Verne by Andrew Martin. Oxford, 222 pp., £27.50, May 1990, 0 19 815798 3
Gavin Ewart
Cat Poems
John Sutherland
The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History by Robert Darnton. Faber, 393 pp., £25, September 1990, 0 571 14423 3
William Rodgers
Diary: Party Conference Jamboree
Julian Symons
Paul Scott: A Life by Hilary Spurling. Hutchinson, 429 pp., £16.99, October 1990, 0 09 173984 5 Paul Scott’s Raj by Robin Moore. Heinemann, 246 pp., £18.50, October 1990, 0 434 47588 2
Walter Nash
The Twitter Machine: Reflections on Language by Neil Smith. Blackwell, 275 pp., £9.95, September 1989, 0 631 16926 1 English in Use by Randolph Quirk and Gabriele Stein. Longman, 262 pp., £17.95, September 1990, 0 582 06612 3
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