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Vol. 13 No. 23 · 5 December 1991

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Vol. 13 No. 23 · 5 December 1991

Martin Amis

Iron John: A Book about Men by Robert Bly
The way men think: Intellect, Intimacy and the Erotic Imagination by Liam Hudson and Bernadine Jacot
Utne Reader. Men, it’s time to pull together: The Politics of Masculinity 

Letters

Jasmine Killen, Gillian Slovo, Donald Davie, Michael Shelden, Denis MacShane, Zygmunt Frankel, Brian Stone, Gabriel Austin

Michael Howard

On Future War by Martin van Creveld

Victor Mallet

The Samson Option: Israel, America and the Bomb by Seymour Hersh
Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the US-Israeli Covert Relationship by Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn

Peter Pulzer

The Constitution of the United Kingdom 
A People’s Charter 

Hugo Young

Thatcher’s People by John Ranelagh
Staying Power by Peter Walker

Ian Gilmour

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century by Peter Linebaugh

Jose Harris

Letters to Eva, 1969-1983 by A.J.P. Taylor, edited by Eva Haraszti Taylor

A.D. Nuttall

Marvellous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World by Stephen Greenblatt

P.N. Furbank

D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912 by John Worthen
The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. Vol. VI: 1927-28 edited by James Boulton, Margaret Boulton and Gerald Lacy

Patricia Beer

With and Without Buttons by Mary Butts, edited by Nathalie Blondel

Alan Dixon

Poem: ‘Presentimento’

Adrian Mitchell

Poem: ‘Short back and sides with a blowtorch, please’

Frank Kermode

Collected Poems by Henry Reed, edited with an introduction by Jon Stallworthy

John Sutherland

The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble
Happily Ever After by Jenny Diski
Of Love and Asthma by Ferdinand Mount

Jonathan Coe

In Black and White by Christopher Stevenson
The Tree of Life by Hugh Nissenson
Cley by Carey Harrison

John Bayley

Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood

Julian Symons

Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life by William Pritchard
Randall Jarrell: Selected Poems edited by William Pritchard

David Trotter

From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature by Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury

Rosemary Hill

Gertrude Jekyll by Sally Festing
People’s Parks by Hazel Conway
The History of Garden Design: The Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day edited by Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot

Karl Miller

Diary: What is rugby for?

Nicholas Spice

Trial of Strength: Furtwängler and the Third Reich by Fred Prieberg, translated by Christopher Dolan
Menuhin: A Family Portrait by Tony Palmer

Michael Shelden

Bachelors of Art: Edward Perry Warren and the Lewes House Brotherhood by David Sox

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