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Vol. 13 No. 1 · 10 January 1991

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Vol. 13 No. 1 · 10 January 1991

John Sutherland

Victorian Subjects by J. Hillis Miller
Tropes, Parables, Performatives: Essays on 20th-Century Literature by J. Hillis Miller

Letters

Carlo Ginzburg, Peter Griffith, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, Robert Allen, Constance Putnam, Christopher Driver, Ian and Charlotte Townsend-Gault, John Bayley, James Lund

Frank Kermode

Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture by Stephen Greenblatt

Alexander Cockburn

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles by Mike Davis

Christopher Hitchens

Good and Faithful Servant: The Unauthorised Biography of Bernard Ingham by Robert Harris

Christopher Reid

Poem: ‘A Perversion’

J.J. Lee

Ulster: Conflict and Consent by Tom Wilson
Biting at the grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig O’Malley
Politics in the Streets: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland by Bob Purdie

Ken Jones

The National Curriculum

Barbara Everett

Kipling’s Lightning-Flash

Charles Boyle

Poem: ‘Man in Space’

Eric Korn

The Anthropology of Numbers by Thomas Crump

Gabriele Annan

Diary of an Erotic Life by Frank Wedekind

Patrick Parrinder

Things: A Story of the Sixties, by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos and Andrew Leak
Parcours Peree edited by Mireille Ribière
Women by Philippe Sollers, translated by Barbara Bray

Susannah Clapp

Carol by Patricia Highsmith

Alan Brownjohn

Poem: ‘A Pride’

Walter Nash

51 Soko: To the Islands on the Other Side of the World by Michael Westlake
Behind the Waterfall by Chinatsy Nakayama
Dirty Faxes, and Other Stories by Andrew Davies

W.G. Runciman

Diary: Like a Prep School

Graham Coster

Stone Alone by Bill Wyman and Ray Coleman
Blown away: The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties by A.E. Hotchner
Are you experienced? The Inside Story of the Jimi Hendrix Experience by Noel Redding and Carol Appleby
I was a teenage Sex Pistol by Glen Matlock and Pete Silverton
Bare by George Michael and Tony Parsons

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