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Vol. 14 No. 10 · 28 May 1992
Ross McKibbin
The Sense of an Ending
Letters
Nicholas Spice, Emmy Misser, Patrick Parrinder, Angus Calder, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Bernard Richards, Boris Ford, Alan Ryan
Ian Hacking
Understanding the present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man by Bryan Appleyard. Picador, 272 pp., £14.95, May 1992, 0 330 32012 2
Jon Stallworthy
Poem: ‘From the Life’
Alan Ryan
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell. Vol. I: The Private Years, 1884-1914 edited by Nicholas Griffin. Allen Lane, 553 pp., £25, March 1992, 0 7139 9023 6
John Lloyd
Comrades in Monetarism
Victor Mallet
The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War and Revolution since 1945 by David Chandler. Yale, 396 pp., £25, February 1992, 0 300 04919 6
John Sutherland
The Fire This Time
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre. Macmillan, 256 pp., £17.50, April 1992, 0 333 55914 2
Hilary Mantel
Théroigne de Méricourt: A Melancholic Woman during the French Revolution by Elisabeth Roudinesco, translated by Martin Thom. Verso, 284 pp., £34.95, July 1991, 0 86091 324 4 Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution by Olwen Hufton. Toronto, 201 pp., £23, May 1992, 0 8020 6837 5
Anthony Thwaite
Poem: ‘Snakes (Virginia, 1940)’
Michael Wood
Barcelona by Robert Hughes. Harvill, 575 pp., £20, May 1992, 0 00 272078 7 Barcelonas by Manuel Vazquez Montalban, translated by Andrew Robinson. Verso, 210 pp., £17.95, May 1992, 0 86091 353 8 Cities of Spain by David Gilmour. Murray, 214 pp., £17.95, March 1992, 0 7195 4833 0 Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso’s Barcelona by Temma Kaplan. California, 266 pp., $30, April 1992, 0 520 07507 2
Ian Hamilton
Damon Runyon: A Life by Jimmy Breslin. Hodder, 410 pp., £17.99, March 1992, 0 340 57034 2
Gordon Burn
Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone. Deutsch, 409 pp., £14.99, May 1992, 0 223 98774 3
Jenny Diski
Diary: Three Whole Weeks Alone
Patrick Parrinder
Underworld by Peter Conrad. Chatto, 252 pp., £14.99, April 1992, 0 7011 3895 5 A Case of Curiosities by Allen Kurzweil. Hamish Hamilton, 358 pp., £14.99, March 1992, 0 241 13235 5 Rotten Times by Paul Micou. Bantam, 266 pp., £14.99, May 1992, 0 593 02621 7 The Republic of Love by Carol Shields. Fourth Estate, 366 pp., £14.99, March 1992, 1 872180 88 4
Christopher Hitchens
The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis. Hutchinson, 296 pp., £14.99, April 1992, 0 09 174536 5
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