Vol. 13 No. 17 · 12 September 1991
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Vol. 13 No. 17 · 12 September 1991
David Marquand
A Life at the Centre by Roy Jenkins. Macmillan, 600 pp., £20, September 1991, 0 333 55164 8
Letters
Michael Hamburger, Jonathan Bate, Arthur Marwick, Daniel Miller, James Wood, Nick Blanton, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Roy MacGregor-Hastie
Marilyn Butler
The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 by Paul Johnson. Weidenfeld, 1095 pp., £25, September 1991, 0 297 81207 6
D.J. Enright
Two Poems
Edward Luttwak
The Lessons of History by Michael Howard. Oxford, 217 pp., £17.50, March 1991, 0 19 821581 9
Julian Symons
The Myth of the Blitz by Angus Calder. Cape, 304 pp., £17.99, September 1991, 9780224022583
R.W. Johnson
Aids in South Africa
Frank Kermode
Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis. Cape, 176 pp., £12.99, September 1991, 0 224 03093 0
Jonathan Coe
The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey. Faber, 279 pp., £14.99, September 1991, 0 571 16297 5 The Second Bridegroom by Rodney Hall. Faber, 214 pp., £13.99, August 1991, 9780571164820
John Lanchester
Mao II by Don DeLillo. Cape, 239 pp., £13.99, September 1991, 9780224031523 Introducing Don DeLillo edited by Frank Lentricchia. Duke, 221 pp., £28, September 1991, 0 8223 1135 6
Graham Coster
Paradise News by David Lodge. Secker, 294 pp., £14.99, September 1991, 0 436 25668 1
Stephen Wall
Hidden in the Heart by Dan Jacobson. Bloomsbury, 182 pp., £14.99, September 1991, 0 7475 0981 6 A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn. Viking, 256 pp., £14.99, September 1991, 0 670 83932 9
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Van by Roddy Doyle. Secker, 311 pp., £13.99, August 1991, 9780436200526
Adam Phillips
Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth. Cape, 238 pp., £13.99, April 1991, 0 671 70375 7
Jon Stallworthy
A Life of Henry Reed
Henry Reed
Poem: ‘L’Envoi’
Alan Brien
Well, I forget the rest by Quentin Crewe. Hutchinson, 278 pp., £17.99, September 1991, 0 09 174835 6
John Lloyd
Diary: In Moscow
D.J. Enright
Women Who Kill by Ann Jones. Gollancz, 482 pp., £4.99, August 1991, 0 575 05139 6
Michael Wood
Young Soul Rebels directed by Isaac Julien.Diary of a Young Soul Rebel by Isaac Julien and Colin MacCabe. BFI, 218 pp., £10.95, September 1991, 0 85170 310 0
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