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. 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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