Vol. 12 No. 22 · 22 November 1990
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Vol. 12 No. 22 · 22 November 1990
John Simpson
Warm Drops in Baghdad
Letters
Michael Howard, Michael Lee, Jonathan Bate, Hilary Gaskin, David Stern, Elaine Segal, Richard Horton
Victor Mallet
Knowing the Gulf
Julian Barnes
Candles for the living
Colin McGinn
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk. Cape, 654 pp., £20, October 1990, 0 224 02712 3 Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Student’s Memoir by Theodore Redpath. Duckworth, 109 pp., £12.95, May 1990, 9780715623299
Ray Monk
Private Lives
Julia Annas
The ‘Theaetetus’ of Plato translated by M.J. Levett and Myles Burnyeat. Hackett, 351 pp., £20, September 1990, 0 915144 82 4
Christian Stevens
Poem: ‘Untitled’
Jonathan Glover
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor. Cambridge, 601 pp., £25.95, November 1989, 0 521 38331 5
Onora O’Neill
The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians’ Debate by Jürgen Habermas, translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Polity, 270 pp., £29.50, February 1990, 0 7456 0679 2
Lawrence Stone
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine. Yale, 813 pp., £19.95, October 1990, 0 300 04761 4
Christopher Ricks
Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications edited by Adrian Room. Bloomsbury, 354 pp., £17.99, September 1990, 0 7475 0521 7 Unauthorised Versions: Poems and their Parodies edited by Kenneth Baker. Faber, 446 pp., £14.99, September 1990, 0 571 14122 6 The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse edited by Tom Paulin. Faber, 407 pp., £14.99, November 1990, 0 571 14470 5
David Drew
Leonard Bernstein by Joan Peyser. Bantam, 430 pp., £14.95, October 1987, 0 593 01454 5 Leonard Bernstein by Michael Freedland. Harrap, 273 pp., £12.95, October 1987, 0 245 54499 2 Leonard Bernstein by Peter Gradenwitz. Berg, 310 pp., £15, October 1987, 0 85496 510 6 Make the music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein by Eric Gordon. St Martin’s, 605 pp., $29.95, March 1989, 0 312 02607 2
Peter Clarke
Friends in High Places: Who runs Britain? by Jeremy Paxman. Joseph, 370 pp., £16.99, September 1990, 0 7181 3154 1 The Sunday Times Book of the Rich by Philip Beresford. Weidenfeld, 336 pp., £18.95, October 1990, 0 297 81115 0
W.G. Runciman
Diary: UK plc v. the Swedes
John Bayley
Jean Rhys by Carole Angier. Deutsch, 780 pp., £15.99, November 1990, 0 233 98597 2 A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym by Hazel Holt. Macmillan, 308 pp., £14.99, November 1990, 0 333 40614 1
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