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Vol. 13 No. 1 · 10 January 1991
John Sutherland
Victorian Subjects by J. Hillis Miller. Harvester, 330 pp., £30, December 1990, 0 7450 0820 8 Tropes, Parables, Performatives: Essays on 20th-Century Literature by J. Hillis Miller. Harvester, 266 pp., £30, December 1990, 0 7450 0836 4
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. Routledge, 188 pp., £25, January 1991, 0 415 90173 1
Alexander Cockburn
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles by Mike Davis. Verso, 462 pp., £18.95, November 1990, 0 86091 303 1
Christopher Hitchens
Good and Faithful Servant: The Unauthorised Biography of Bernard Ingham by Robert Harris. Faber, 202 pp., £14.99, December 1990, 0 571 16108 1
Christopher Reid
Poem: ‘A Perversion’
J.J. Lee
Ulster: Conflict and Consent by Tom Wilson. Blackwell, 330 pp., £9.95, June 1989, 0 631 17006 5 Biting at the grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair by Padraig O’Malley. Blackstaff, 330 pp., £9.95, October 1990, 0 85640 453 5 Politics in the Streets: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland by Bob Purdie. Blackstaff, 286 pp., £9.95, September 1990, 0 85640 437 3
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. Cambridge, 201 pp., £30, July 1990, 0 521 38045 6
Gabriele Annan
Diary of an Erotic Life by Frank Wedekind. Blackwell, 183 pp., £25, October 1990, 0 631 16607 6
Patrick Parrinder
Things: A Story of the Sixties, by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos and Andrew Leak. Collins Harvill, 221 pp., £12.50, July 1990, 0 00 271038 2 Parcours Peree edited by Mireille Ribière. Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 162 pp., frs 125, July 1990, 2 7297 0365 9 Women by Philippe Sollers, translated by Barbara Bray. Columbia, 559 pp., $24.95, December 1990, 0 231 06546 9
Susannah Clapp
Carol by Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 240 pp., £13.99, October 1990, 0 7475 0719 8
Alan Brownjohn
Poem: ‘A Pride’
Walter Nash
51 Soko: To the Islands on the Other Side of the World by Michael Westlake. Polygon, 258 pp., £8.95, September 1990, 0 7486 6085 2 Behind the Waterfall by Chinatsy Nakayama. Virago, 213 pp., £12.99, November 1990, 1 85381 269 2 Dirty Faxes, and Other Stories by Andrew Davies. Methuen, 243 pp., £13.99, October 1990, 0 413 63270 9
W.G. Runciman
Diary: Like a Prep School
Graham Coster
Stone Alone by Bill Wyman and Ray Coleman. Viking, 594 pp., £15.99, October 1990, 0 670 82894 7 Blown away: The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties by A.E. Hotchner. Simon and Schuster, 377 pp., £15.95, October 1990, 0 671 69316 6 Are you experienced? The Inside Story of the Jimi Hendrix Experience by Noel Redding and Carol Appleby. Fourth Estate, 256 pp., £14.99, September 1990, 1 872180 36 1 I was a teenage Sex Pistol by Glen Matlock and Pete Silverton. Omnibus, 192 pp., £12.95, September 1990, 0 7119 2491 0 Bare by George Michael and Tony Parsons. Joseph, 242 pp., £12.99, September 1990, 0 7181 3435 4
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