Vol. 14 No. 9 · 14 May 1992

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Vol. 14 No. 9 · 14 May 1992

A.N. Wilson

Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966 by Martin Stannard

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

Alistair Elliot

Poem: ‘On the Great North Road’

Christopher Ricks

But I digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse by John Lennard

Hugo Williams

Four Poems

Frank Kermode

The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 edited by Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares

Jane Miller

Jazz by Toni Morrison

Douglas Johnson

Paul Touvier et l’église by René Rémond

Bill Utting

Social work – what went wrong?

G.A. Cohen

Equality and Partiality by Thomas Nagel

John Ellis

Addressing Frank Kermode: Essays in Criticism and Interpretation edited by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Martin Warner
The Poverty of Structuralism: Literature and Structuralist Theory by Leonard Jackson
Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory by Bernard Harrison
Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science by Mark Turner
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson

Adam Phillips

The Secret Ring: Freud’s Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis by Phyllis Grosskurth

Ian Stewart

The Mind’s Sky by Timothy Ferris

Julia Annas

Ancient and Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past by Janet Coleman

Malcolm Bull

Modernity and Identity edited by Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman
Fundamentalisms Observed edited by Martin Marty and Scott Appleby
The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial by Margaret Rose
Under God: Religion and American Politics by Garry Wills

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
A Guid Cause: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Scotland by Leah Leneman
Marriage and Property: Women and Marital Customs in History edited by Elizabeth Craik
A Woman’s Claim of Right in Scotland 
Nationalism in the Nineties edited by Tom Gallagher
Cultural Weapons: Scotland and Survival in a New Europe by Christopher Harvie
Literature and Nationalism edited by Vincent Newey and Ann Thompson
The Invention of Scotland: The Stuart Myth of the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the present by Murray Pittock
Scotland: A New History by Michael Lynch

Matt Frei

Diary: In Albania

Adam Bradbury

1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile by Homero Aridjis, translated by Betty Ferber
The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Alfred MacAdam
The Penguin Book of Latin American Short Stories edited by Thomas Colchie

Walter Nash

‘Was ... ’ by Geoff Ryman

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