Vol. 13 No. 21 · 7 November 1991
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Vol. 13 No. 21 · 7 November 1991
Frank Kermode
Musical Elaborations by Edward Said. Chatto, 128 pp., £20, October 1991, 0 7011 3809 2
Letters
Francis Wyndham, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin, Valentine Cunningham
Christopher Hitchens
Harlot’s Ghost by Norman Mailer. Joseph, 1122 pp., £15.99, October 1991, 0 7181 2934 2 A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs by Theodore Draper. Hill and Wang, 690 pp., $27.95, June 1991, 0 8090 9613 7
Benedict Anderson
The First Americans: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State, 1492-1867 by D.A. Brading. Cambridge, 761 pp., £55, March 1991, 9780521391306
Ira Katznelson
Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia by Benedict Anderson.305 pp., $44.95, January 1991, 0 8014 9758 2
Peter Rudnytsky
The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45 edited by Pearl King and Riccardo Steiner. Routledge, 958 pp., £100, December 1990, 0 415 03170 2
David Wilson
Poem: ‘Power Pictures’
D.J. Enright
Poem: ‘In the street’
David Lindley
The Triumph of the Embryo by Lewis Wolpert. Oxford, 211 pp., £14.95, September 1991, 0 19 854243 7
Elaine Showalter
Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook. Virago, 488 pp., £20, November 1991, 1 85381 406 7
Andrew Roberts
The Enemy’s Country: Words, Contexture and Other Circumstances of Language by Geoffrey Hill. Oxford, 153 pp., £19.95, August 1991, 0 19 811216 5
Peter Campbell
Moving Pictures by Anne Hollander. Harvard, 512 pp., £15, April 1991, 0 674 58828 2
Allen Curnow
Poem: ‘Investigations at the Public Baths’
Nicholas Penny
Myths of the Artist’s Youth
Peter Burke
The Golden Age of Painting in Spain by Jonathan Brown. Yale, 330 pp., £39.95, January 1991, 0 300 04760 6 Spanish Paintings of the 15th through 19th Centuries by Jonathan Brown and Richard Mann. National Gallery of Art, Washington/Cambridge, 165 pp., £50, April 1991, 0 521 40107 0
Michael Laskey
Poem: ‘A Family Joke’
Patrick Parrinder
King Cameron by David Craig. Carcanet, 212 pp., £12.95, May 1991, 0 85635 917 3 The Hungry Generations by David Gilmour. Sinclair-Stevenson, 194 pp., £13.95, August 1991, 1 85619 069 2 O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker. Hamish Hamilton, 152 pp., £13.99, August 1991, 0 241 13146 4
Nicolas Tredell
Textermination by Christine Brooke-Rose. Carcanet, 182 pp., £12.95, October 1991, 0 85635 952 1 The Women’s Hour by David Caute. Paladin, 272 pp., £14.99, September 1991, 0 586 09142 4 Look twice by John Fuller. Chatto, 255 pp., £13.99, October 1991, 0 7011 3761 4
Andrew Brighton
Diary: On Peter Fuller
Carey Harrison
Conversations with Marlon Brando by Lawrence Grobel. Bloomsbury, 177 pp., £14.99, September 1991, 9780747508168 George Sanders: An Exhausted Life by Richard Vanderbeets. Robson, 271 pp., £15.95, September 1991, 0 86051 749 7 Rex Harrison: A Biography by Nicholas Wapshott. Chatto, 331 pp., £16, October 1991, 0 7011 3764 9 Me: Stories of my Life by Katharine Hepburn. Viking, 418 pp., £16.99, September 1991, 0 670 83974 4
Penelope Fitzgerald
Grandmothers talking to Nell Dunn Chatto, 202 pp., £10.99, September 1991, 0 7011 3578 6
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