A.N. Wilson

Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966 by Martin Stannard. Dent, 523 pp., £25, April 1992, 0 460 86062 3

Letters

C.A. Latimer, John Colvin, Richard Mayne, Matthew Leigh, M.B. Kinch, David Craig, Nicolas Freeling

Craig Raine

Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years by Brian Boyd. Chatto, 783 pp., £25, January 1992, 0 7011 3701 0

Alistair Elliot

Poem: ‘On the Great North Road’

Christopher Ricks

But I digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse by John Lennard. Oxford, 324 pp., £35, November 1991, 0 19 811247 5

Hugo Williams

Four Poems

Frank Kermode

The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 edited by Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares. Hutchinson, 544 pp., £25, April 1992, 0 09 174000 2

Jane Miller

Jazz by Toni Morrison. Chatto, 229 pp., £14.99, April 1992, 0 7011 3449 6

Douglas Johnson

Paul Touvier et l’église by René Rémond. Fayard, 417 pp., frs 130, February 1992, 9782213028804

Bill Utting

Social work – what went wrong?

G.A. Cohen

Equality and Partiality by Thomas Nagel. Oxford, 186 pp., £13.95, November 1991, 0 19 506967 6

John Ellis

Addressing Frank Kermode: Essays in Criticism and Interpretation edited by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Martin Warner. Macmillan, 218 pp., £40, July 1991, 9780333531372
The Poverty of Structuralism: Literature and Structuralist Theory by Leonard Jackson. Longman, 317 pp., £24, July 1991, 0 582 06697 2
Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory by Bernard Harrison. Yale, 293 pp., £25, September 1991, 0 300 05057 7
Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science by Mark Turner. Princeton, 298 pp., £18.99, January 1992, 0 691 06897 6
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson. Stanford, 530 pp., $49.50, December 1990, 0 8047 1821 0

Adam Phillips

The Secret Ring: Freud’s Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis by Phyllis Grosskurth. Cape, 245 pp., £18, November 1991, 0 224 03227 5

Ian Stewart

The Mind’s Sky by Timothy Ferris. Bantam, 281 pp., £16.99, March 1992, 0 593 02644 6

Julia Annas

Ancient and Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past by Janet Coleman. Cambridge, 646 pp., £50, January 1992, 0 521 41144 0

Malcolm Bull

Modernity and Identity edited by Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman. Blackwell, 448 pp., £45, January 1992, 0 631 17585 7
Fundamentalisms Observed edited by Martin Marty and Scott Appleby. Chicago, 872 pp., $40, November 1991, 0 226 50877 3
The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial by Margaret Rose. Cambridge, 317 pp., £35, July 1991, 0 521 40131 3
Under God: Religion and American Politics by Garry Wills. Simon and Schuster, 445 pp., £17.99, February 1992, 0 671 65705 4

Ian Gregson

Poem: ‘How does it feel? Thoughts on Tony Harrison’s poem ‘A Cold Coming’’

Rosalind Mitchison

Strategic Women: How do they manage in Scotland? by Elizabeth Gerver and Lesley Hart. Aberdeen University Press, 216 pp., £9.95, June 1991, 0 08 037741 6
A Guid Cause: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Scotland by Leah Leneman. Aberdeen University Press, 304 pp., £11.95, June 1991, 0 08 041201 7
Marriage and Property: Women and Marital Customs in History edited by Elizabeth Craik. Aberdeen University Press, 192 pp., £6.95, June 1991, 9780080412054
A Woman’s Claim of Right in Scotland  Polygon, 142 pp., £7.95, August 1991, 0 7486 6103 4
Nationalism in the Nineties edited by Tom Gallagher. Polygon, 192 pp., £7.95, August 1991, 0 7486 6098 4
Cultural Weapons: Scotland and Survival in a New Europe by Christopher Harvie. Polygon, 119 pp., £7.95, March 1992, 0 7486 6122 0
Literature and Nationalism edited by Vincent Newey and Ann Thompson. Liverpool, 286 pp., £27.50, June 1991, 0 85323 057 9
The Invention of Scotland: The Stuart Myth of the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the present by Murray Pittock. Routledge, 198 pp., £30, September 1991, 0 415 05586 5
Scotland: A New History by Michael Lynch. Century, 499 pp., £18.99, August 1991, 0 7126 3413 4

Matt Frei

Diary: In Albania

Adam Bradbury

1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile by Homero Aridjis, translated by Betty Ferber. Deutsch, 284 pp., £14.99, October 1991, 0 233 98727 4
The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Alfred MacAdam. Deutsch, 246 pp., £14.99, November 1991, 0 233 98726 6
The Penguin Book of Latin American Short Stories edited by Thomas Colchie. Viking, 448 pp., £15.99, January 1992, 0 670 84299 0

Walter Nash

‘Was … ’ by Geoff Ryman. HarperCollins, 356 pp., £14.99, February 1992, 0 00 223931 0

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