Vol. 13 No. 20 · 24 October 1991
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Vol. 13 No. 20 · 24 October 1991
Ross McKibbin
Power, Competition and the State. Vol. II: Threats to the Post-War Settlement, Britain, 1961-1974, Vol. III: The End of the Post-War Era, Britain since 1974 by Keith Middlemas. Macmillan, 480 pp., £50, March 1990, 0 333 41413 6 Labour’s Economic Policies, 1974-1979 edited by Michael Artis and David Cobham. Manchester, 310 pp., £40, June 1991, 0 7190 2264 9
Letters
Michael Rustin, Aldan Foster-Carter, Peter Marsden, Roz Kaveney, Ed Leimbacher, Laurie Goldstraw
Norman Dombey
Arms and Saddam
Alistair Elliot
Poem: ‘On Broadway’
Frank Kermode
Orwell: The Authorised Biography by Michael Shelden. Heinemann, 563 pp., £18.50, October 1991, 0 434 69517 3
Gabriele Annan
Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia by Marion Countess Dönhoff. Knopf, 204 pp., $22.95, November 1990, 0 394 58255 1
R.W. Johnson
The Past and Future of the South African Communist party
Paul Muldoon
Poem: ‘Oscar’
Stephen Fender
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and how it changed America by Nicholas Lemann. Macmillan, 410 pp., £20, August 1991, 0 333 56584 3
Mark Bonham-Carter
Mr Baker should think again
Paul Foot
Tom Mann, 1856-1941: The Challenges of Labour by Chushichi Tsuzuki. Oxford, 288 pp., £35, July 1991, 0 19 820217 2
Garret FitzGerald
The Unresolved Question by Nicholas Mansergh. Yale, 386 pp., £18.95, October 1991, 0 300 05069 0
John Bayley
Scum by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Rosaline Dukalsky Schwartz. Cape, 224 pp., £13.99, October 1991, 0 224 03200 3
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
The History of Tears: Sensibility and Sentimentality in France by Anne Vincent-Buffault. Macmillan, 284 pp., £40, July 1991, 0 333 45594 0
Dinah Birch
Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle by Teresa Newman and Ray Watkinson. Chatto, 226 pp., £50, July 1991, 0 7011 3186 1
T.J. Binyon
Maurice Baring: A Citizen of Europe by Emma Letley. Constable, 269 pp., £18.95, September 1991, 0 09 469870 8
V.G. Kiernan
Diary: Leningrad Renamed
Jenny Turner
Gaudi Afternoon by Barbara Wilson. Virago, 172 pp., £4.99, August 1991, 1 85381 264 1 The players come again by Amanda Cross. Virago, 229 pp., £12.99, August 1991, 1 85381 306 0 Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross. Virago, 176 pp., £4.99, August 1991, 1 85381 025 8 Birth Marks by Sarah Dunant. Joseph, 230 pp., £13.99, April 1991, 0 7181 3511 3 Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky. Virago, 340 pp., £4.99, April 1991, 9781853812798 Deep Sleep by Frances Fyfield. Heinemann, 198 pp., £13.99, September 1991, 0 434 27426 7
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