Vol. 13 No. 24 · 19 December 1991
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Vol. 13 No. 24 · 19 December 1991
Stephen Sedley
Free speech for Rupert Murdoch
Letters
John Skoyles, Bob Grumman, R.W. Johnson, Riccardo Steiner, Peter Rudnytsky, A. Banerjee, Peter Cadogan, Colin Matthews, Stephen Roberts, Frank Walbank
J.G.A. Pocock
Deconstructing Europe
Paul Foot
Under Fire: An American Story by Oliver North and William Novak. HarperCollins, 446 pp., £17.99, October 1991, 0 06 018334 9 Terry Waite: Why was he kidnapped? by Gavin Hewitt. Bloomsbury, 230 pp., £15.99, November 1991, 0 7475 0375 3
A. Craig Copetas
Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson. Picador, 316 pp., £15.95, October 1991, 0 330 31994 9
R.W. Johnson
What Buthelezi wants
Edward Said
In Search of Conrad by Gavin Young. Hutchinson, 304 pp., £17.99, October 1991, 0 09 173524 6
E.S. Turner
Alistair MacLean by Jack Webster. Chapmans, 326 pp., £18, November 1991, 1 85592 519 2 Alistair MacLean’s Time of the Assassins by Alastair MacNeill. HarperCollins, 288 pp., £14.99, December 1991, 0 00 223816 0
Neal Ascherson
Judge on Trial by Ivan Klima, translated by A.G. Brain. Chatto, 547 pp., £14.99, November 1991, 9780701133498
Nicholas Penny
The Altarpiece in Renaissance Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, edited and translated by Peter Humfrey. Phaidon, 249 pp., £75, October 1988, 0 7148 2477 1 The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, translated by S.G. Middlemore. Penguin, 389 pp., £7.99, December 1991, 9780140445343 The Altarpiece in the Renaissance edited by Peter Humfrey and Martin Kemp. Cambridge, 273 pp., £35, February 1991, 0 521 36061 7 Painting in Renaissance Siena by Keith Christiansen, Laurence Kanter and Carl Stehlke. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 386 pp., $45, July 1989, 0 8109 1473 5
Colin Richmond
The Architecture of Medieval Britain by Colin Platt, with photographs by Anthony Kersting. Yale, 325 pp., £29.95, November 1990, 0 300 04953 6
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Emperor’s Last Island: A Journey to St Helena by Julia Blackburn. Secker, 244 pp., £16.99, October 1991, 0 436 20030 9
D.J. Enright
Poem: ‘Saving the world’
Linda Colley
Diary: Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas
Jenny Turner
England’s dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock by Jon Savage. Faber, 602 pp., £17.50, October 1991, 0 571 13975 2
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