Vol. 13 No. 11 · 13 June 1991

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Vol. 13 No. 11 · 13 June 1991

Patrick Parrinder

Wise Children by Angela Carter

Letters

Alvin Kernan, Antony Easthope, Claude Rawson, David Bull, Martin Orkin, Leonard Jackson, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard McCabe

Sam Miller

Show us your corpses

Heribert Adam

The Unbreakable Thread: Non-Racialism in South Africa by Julie Frederikse
A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society by David Horowitz
Koexistenz im Krieg: Staatszerfall und Entstehung einer Nation im Libanon by Theodor Hanf

Craig Raine

Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life by Richard Garnett

Donald Davie

The Book of J translated by David Rosenberg, interpreted by Harold Bloom

Onora O’Neill

The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals edited by Ian MacLean, Alan Montefiore and Peter Winch

Michael Wood

Immortality by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi
Storm 2: New Writing from East and West edited by Joanna Labon

Theodore Zeldin

Dead Certainties by Simon Schama

Julian Symons

Literature and Liberation: Selected Essays by Arnold Kettle, edited by Graham Martin and W.R. Owens

John Bayley

Edmund Blunden: A Biography by Barry Webb

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660-1833 by Susan Staves
The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship and the Life of the Mind in 18th-century England by Sylvia Harcstark Myers
Portrait of a Friendship: Drawn from New Letters of James Russell Lowell to Sybella Lady Lyttleton 1881-1891 by Alethea Hayter
Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America by Helena Wall

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

Poem: ‘Dogs’

E.S. Turner

The Passing of Barchester: A Real-Life Version of Trollop by Clive Dewey

Kenneth Fowler

Ways of Lying: Dissimulation and Conformity in Early Modern Europe by Perez Zagorin
Lucrecia’s Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in 16th-Century Spain by Richard Kagan
‘In his Image and Likeness’: Political Iconography and Religious Change in Regenshurg, 1500-1600 by Kristin Zapalac

Philip Purser

Hitler’s State Archltecture: The Impact of Classical Antiquity by Alex Scoble
Totalitarian Art by Igor Golomstock, translated by Robert Chandler

Roger Garfitt

Where Colombia screwed up

Tim Gardam

Diary: New Conservatism

Anthony Pagden

The Cambridge History of Latin America. Vol. VII: 1930 to the Present edited by Leslie Bethell
Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America by John King
Democracy and Development in Latin America: Economics, Politics and Religion in the Post-war Period by David Lehmann

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