Vol. 13 No. 9 · 9 May 1991

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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

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

Frank Kermode

The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism by John Barrell

Alexander Cockburn

Human Rights and Wrongs

Avi Shlaim

Israel’s Secret Wars: The Untold History of Israeli Intelligence by Ian Black and Benny Morris

Jeremy Harding

Fishing in Africa: A Guide to War and Corruption by Andrew Buckoke
Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent by Blaine Harden
The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand

J. Arch Getty

Stalin’s Apologist. Walter Duranty: The ‘New York Times’ Man in Moscow by S.J. Taylor

Mary Beard

Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary by Ramsay MacMullen

Hyam Maccoby

Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah: Five Studies by E.P. Sanders
Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee by Alan Segal

Mark Ridley

The Wisdom of the Genes by Christopher Wills

Colin McGinn

Mind and Cognition: A Reader edited by William Lycan
Acts of Meaning by Jerome Bruner
Modelling the mind edited by K.A. Mohyeldin Said

Patrick Parrinder

Mr Wroe’s Virgins by Jane Rogers
The Side of the Moon by Amanda Prantera

John Lanchester

The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo

Tom Carver

Diary: In Zakho

Philip Horne

The Grimace by Nicholas Salaman
Playing the game by Ian Buruma
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster

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