Vol. 12 No. 24 · 20 December 1990
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Vol. 12 No. 24 · 20 December 1990
Perry Anderson
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy. Murray, 276 pp., £18.95, October 1990, 9780719547898
Letters
David Craig, Robert Watson, Rupert Christiansen, Andrew Boyle, Diana Barrett, Christopher Small, James Dickie, John Caird, Diana Athill, Michael Katz
Hugo Williams
Poem: ‘Standstill’
David Marquand
Citizenship and Community: Civic Republicanism and the Modern World by Adrian Oldfield. Routledge, 196 pp., £30, August 1990, 0 415 04875 3 Community and the Economy: The Theory of Public Co-operation by Jonathan Boswell. Routledge, 226 pp., £30, October 1990, 0 415 05556 3 Encouraging citizenship: Report of the Commission on Citizenship HMSO, 129 pp., £8, September 1990, 0 11 701464 8
Christopher Hitchens
In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama 1968-89 by R.M. Koster and Guillermo Sanchez Borbon. Secker, 430 pp., £17.99, October 1990, 0 436 20016 3
Michael Ignatieff
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd. Chatto, 607 pp., £20, November 1990, 0 7011 3700 2
Lizbeth Rae
Poem: ‘Damned Spotting’
Owen Bennett-Jones
After the Revolution
V.G. Kiernan
On the Crofters’ Trail: In Search of the Clearance Highlanders by David Craig. Cape, 358 pp., £14.99, October 1990, 0 224 02750 6
Claude Rawson
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. VIII: The French Revolution 1790-1794 edited by L.G. Mitchell. Oxford, 552 pp., £65, March 1990, 0 19 822422 2 Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke, edited by J.G.A. Pocock. Hackett, 236 pp., $5.95, January 1987, 0 87220 020 5 APhilosophical Enquiry by Edmund Burke, edited by Adam Phillips. Oxford, 173 pp., £4.95, June 1990, 0 19 281807 4
John Bayley
Emily Brontë: A Chainless Soul by Katherine Frank. Hamish Hamilton, 303 pp., £14.99, November 1990, 9780241121993
Julian Symons
The Complete Short Stories by V.S. Pritchett. Chatto, 1220 pp., £25, November 1990, 0 7011 3712 6 Lasting Impressions by V.S. Pritchett. Chatto, 171 pp., £15.99, November 1990, 0 7011 3606 5
Michael Hofmann
Madoc – A Mystery by Paul Muldoon. Faber, 261 pp., £14.99, October 1990, 0 571 14489 6
Stephen Frears
Diary: That's Hollywood
Philip Horne
Henry Hill and Laura Palmer
David Craig
Diary: Scotland Changes Again
D.A.N. Jones
From Early Life by William Cooper. Macmillan, 180 pp., £13.95, August 1990, 0 333 52367 9 Son of Adam by Denis Forman. Deutsch, 201 pp., £12.99, September 1990, 9780233985930 A Welsh Childhood by Alice Thomas Ellis and Patrick Sutherland. Joseph, 186 pp., £15.99, September 1990, 0 7181 3292 0 Alarms and Excursions: Thirty Years in Israel by Naomi Shepherd. Collins, 220 pp., £16, August 1990, 0 00 215333 5 Birds of Ill Omen by Marie Seurat, translated by Dorothy Blair. Quartet, 168 pp., £10.95, September 1990, 0 7043 2694 9
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