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Vol. 13 No. 9 · 9 May 1991
Perry Anderson
The Identity of France. Vol. II: People and Production by Fernand Braudel, translated by Sian Reynolds. Collins, 781 pp., £25, December 1990, 0 00 217774 9
Letters
Lawrence Goldman, Norman Langford, Lawrence Beyer, A.N. Vakil, Graham Chainey
Craig Raine
Poem: ‘Muse’
D.J. Enright
Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Vol. I: The Poetry of Desire, 1749-1790 by Nicholas Boyle. Oxford, 827 pp., £25, May 1991, 0 19 815866 1
Frank Kermode
The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism by John Barrell. Yale, 235 pp., £18.95, May 1991, 0 300 04932 3
Alexander Cockburn
Human Rights and Wrongs
Avi Shlaim
Israel’s Secret Wars: The Untold History of Israeli Intelligence by Ian Black and Benny Morris. Hamish Hamilton, 603 pp., £20, February 1991, 0 241 12702 5
Jeremy Harding
Fishing in Africa: A Guide to War and Corruption by Andrew Buckoke. Picador, 227 pp., £17.50, May 1991, 0 330 31895 0 Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent by Blaine Harden. HarperCollins, 333 pp., £16.99, April 1991, 0 00 215889 2 The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand. Granta, 234 pp., £2.99, November 1990, 0 14 014209 6
J. Arch Getty
Stalin’s Apologist. Walter Duranty: The ‘New York Times’ Man in Moscow by S.J. Taylor. Oxford, 404 pp., £15, August 1990, 0 19 505700 7
Mary Beard
Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary by Ramsay MacMullen. Princeton, 399 pp., $35, December 1990, 0 691 03601 2
Hyam Maccoby
Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah: Five Studies by E.P. Sanders. SCM, 404 pp., £35, May 1990, 0 334 02455 2 Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee by Alan Segal. Yale, 368 pp., £22.50, June 1990, 0 300 04527 1
Mark Ridley
The Wisdom of the Genes by Christopher Wills. Oxford, 351 pp., £6.99, January 1991, 0 19 286113 1
Colin McGinn
Mind and Cognition: A Reader edited by William Lycan. Blackwell, 683 pp., £14.95, April 1990, 0 631 16763 3 Acts of Meaning by Jerome Bruner. Harvard, 179 pp., £15.95, December 1990, 0 674 00360 8 Modelling the mind edited by K.A. Mohyeldin Said. Oxford, 216 pp., £25, August 1990, 9780198249733
Patrick Parrinder
Mr Wroe’s Virgins by Jane Rogers. Faber, 276 pp., £13.99, April 1991, 0 571 16194 4 The Side of the Moon by Amanda Prantera. Bloomsbury, 192 pp., £13.99, April 1991, 0 7475 0861 5
John Lanchester
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo. Chatto, 408 pp., £13.99, April 1990, 0 7011 3748 7
Tom Carver
Diary: In Zakho
Philip Horne
The Grimace by Nicholas Salaman. Grafton, 256 pp., £13.99, February 1991, 0 246 13770 3 Playing the game by Ian Buruma. Cape, 234 pp., £13.99, April 1991, 0 224 02758 1 The Music of Chance by Paul Auster. Faber, 217 pp., £13.99, March 1991, 9780571161577
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