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Vol. 13 No. 12 · 27 June 1991
Andrew Forge
Nothing if not critical by Robert Hughes. Collins Harvill, 429 pp., £16, November 1990, 0 00 272075 2 Frank Auerbach by Robert Hughes. Thames and Hudson, 240 pp., £25, September 1990, 0 500 09211 7 Figure and Abstraction in Contemporary Painting by Ronald Paulson. Rutgers, 283 pp., $44.95, November 1990, 0 8135 1604 8
Andrew Forge
Some words on the death of Lawrence Gowing
Letters
Malcolm Deas, Rupert Wilkinson, K. Sinclair-Loutit, Thomas Scott, Rodney Pybus, Michael Pye
Peter Campbell
Dance till the stars come down by Frances Spalding. Hodder, 271 pp., £25, May 1991, 0 340 48555 8 Keith Vaughan by Malcolm Yorke. Constable, 288 pp., £25, October 1990, 0 09 469780 9
George Melly
Beverley Nichols by Bryan Connon. Constable, 320 pp., £20, March 1991, 0 09 470570 4
Neal Ascherson
A Journey through Ruins: The Last Days of London by Patrick Wright. Radius, 294 pp., £16.99, May 1991, 0 09 173190 9
Paul Foot
Kill the messenger by Bernard Ingham. HarperCollins, 408 pp., £17.50, May 1991, 0 00 215944 9
Philip Purser
A Social History of British Broadcasting. Vol. I: 1922-29, Serving the Nation by Paddy Scannell and David Cardiff. Blackwell, 441 pp., £30, April 1991, 0 631 17543 1 The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs. Vol. III: Serious Pursuits, Communication and Education Harvester Wheatsheaf, 470 pp., £30, May 1991, 0 7450 0536 5 The British Press and Broadcasting since 1945 by Colin Seymour-Ure. Blackwell, 269 pp., £29.95, May 1991, 9780631164432
Basil Davidson
The Repatriations from Austria: The Report of an Inquiry by Anthony Cowgill, Lord Brimelow and Christopher Booker. Sinclair-Stevenson, 367 pp., £19.95, October 1990, 1 85619 029 3 Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945 by Samuel Newland. Cass, 218 pp., £30, March 1991, 0 7146 3351 8 Eyewitnesses at Nuremberg by Hilary Gaskin. Arms and Armour, 192 pp., £14.95, November 1990, 1 85409 058 5
Alistair Elliot
Poem: ‘A Family Wireless’
Tam Dalyell
A Green History of the World by Clive Ponting. Sinclair-Stevenson, 352 pp., £16.95, May 1991, 1 85619 050 1
Jerry Fodor
The Problem of Consciousness by Colin McGinn. Blackwell, 216 pp., £30, December 1990, 0 631 17698 5
Dinah Birch
The Desire of My Eyes: A Life of John Ruskin by Wolfgang Kemp, translated by Jan Van Huerck. HarperCollins, 526 pp., £20, March 1991, 0 00 215166 9
D.J. Enright
Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient by John Wiltshire. Cambridge, 293 pp., £30, March 1991, 0 521 38326 9
Douglas Johnson
The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1754-1762 by Maurice Cranston. Allen Lane, 399 pp., £20, February 1991, 0 7139 9051 1 Writings of Rousseau. Vol I: Rousseau: Judge of Jean-Jacques. Dialogues. translated by Judith Bush, edited and translated by Christopher Kelly and Roger Masters. University Press of New England, 277 pp., $40, March 1990, 0 87451 495 9
Carey Harrison
Curtain by Michael Korda. Chapmans, 415 pp., £14.95, May 1991, 1 85592 005 0
Richard Cobb
My France: Politics, Culture, Myth by Eugen Weber. Harvard, 412 pp., £19.95, February 1991, 0 674 59575 0
Anthony Quinn
The Elephant by Richard Rayner. Cape, 276 pp., £13.99, May 1991, 0 224 03005 1 The Misfortunes of Nigel by Fiona Pitt-Kethley. Peter Owen, 176 pp., £12.95, June 1991, 0 7206 0830 9 Famous for the creatures by Andrew Motion. Viking, 248 pp., £14.99, June 1991, 0 670 82286 8 Double Lives by Stephen Wall. Bloomsbury, 154 pp., £13.99, June 1991, 0 7475 0910 7
Stephen Wall
Regeneration by Pat Barker. Viking, 252 pp., £13.99, May 1991, 0 670 82876 9 Rose Reason by Mary Flanagan. Bloomsbury, 388 pp., £14.99, April 1991, 0 7475 0888 7 Rose by Rose Boyt. Chatto, 182 pp., £13.99, April 1991, 0 7011 3728 2
Allen Curnow
Poem: ‘An Unclosed Door’
Jenny Turner
The Burn by James Kelman. Secker, 244 pp., £13.99, April 1991, 0 436 23286 3 Blood by Janice Galloway. Secker, 179 pp., £12.99, March 1991, 0 436 20027 9
Stephen Sackur
Ariel Diary: In Ariel
Rosalind Mitchison
The Hanging Tree by Allan Massie. Heinemann, 346 pp., £13.99, November 1990, 0 434 45301 3 Tiberius: The Memoirs of the Emperor by Allan Massie. Hodder, 256 pp., £13.95, January 1991, 0 340 48788 7 The Gillyflors by Catherine Cookson. Bantam, 366 pp., £13.99, October 1990, 0 593 01726 9
T.J. Binyon
Ngaio Marsh: A Life by Margaret Lewis. Chatto, 276 pp., £18, April 1991, 0 7011 3389 9
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