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Vol. 14 No. 12 · 25 June 1992
John Sturrock
Selected Letters: Vol. III, 1910-1917 by Marcel Proust, edited by Philip Kolb, translated by Terence Kilmartin. HarperCollins, 434 pp., £35, January 1992, 0 00 215541 9 Correspondance de Marcel Proust: Tome XVIII, 191 edited by Philip Kolb. Plon, 657 pp., frs 290, September 1990, 2 259 02187 5 Correspondance de Marcel Proust: Tome XIX, 1920 edited by Philip Kolb. Plon, 857 pp., frs 350, May 1991, 2 259 02389 4 Correspondance de Marcel Proust: Tome XX, 1921 edited by Philip Kolb. Plon, 713 pp., frs 350, April 1992, 2 259 02433 5
Letters
Alfred Brendel, Norman Potter, Laura Quinney, Bernard Harrison, Mark Turner, Hyam Maccoby, E.J. Mishan
George Melly
Magritte by David Sylvester. Thames and Hudson, 352 pp., £45, May 1992, 0 500 09227 3 Magritte by Sarah Whitfield. South Bank Centre, 322 pp., £18.95, May 1992, 1 85332 087 0
Richard Mayne
The Conquerors by André Malraux, translated by Stephen Becker. Chicago, 198 pp., £8.75, December 1991, 0 226 50290 2 The Temptation of the West by André Malraux, translated by Robert Hollander. Chicago, 122 pp., £8.75, February 1992, 0 226 50291 0 The Walnut Tree of Altenburg by André Malraux, translated by A.W. Fielding. Chicago, 224 pp., £9.55, April 1992, 0 226 50289 9
Neal Ascherson
My Life in Politics by Willy Brandt. Hamish Hamilton, 498 pp., £20, April 1992, 0 241 13073 5
Avi Shlaim
The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations by Itamar Rabinovich. Oxford, 259 pp., £19.50, December 1991, 0 19 506066 0
Peter Clarke
The Macmillans: The Story of a Dynasty by Richard Davenport-Hines. Heinemann, 370 pp., £18.50, April 1992, 0 434 17502 1
Hilary Mantel
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl. Cape, 413 pp., £19.99, June 1992, 0 224 03100 7
Blair Worden
Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet by Katherine Duncan-Jones. Hamish Hamilton, 350 pp., £20, September 1991, 0 241 12650 9 Algernon Sidney and the Restoration Crisis by Jonathan Scott. Cambridge, 406 pp., £40, October 1991, 0 521 35291 6 Algernon Sidney and the Republican Heritage by Alan Craig Houston. Princeton, 335 pp., £22.50, November 1991, 0 691 07860 2 Milton’s ‘History of Britain’: Republican Historiography in the English Revolution by Nicholas von Maltzahn. Oxford, 244 pp., £32.50, November 1991, 0 19 812897 5
Julian Loose
Crystal Rooms by Melvyn Bragg. Hodder, 342 pp., £14.99, June 1992, 0 340 56409 1
Frank Kermode
In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif. Bloomsbury, 791 pp., £15.99, June 1992, 0 7475 1163 2
Graham Coster
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan. Cape, 176 pp., £14.99, June 1992, 9780224035729
A. Craig Copetas
Diary: Yaaaggghhhh
Nicolas Tredell
Kid by Simon Armitage. Faber, 89 pp., £4.99, June 1992, 0 571 16607 5 Feast Days by John Burnside. Secker, 52 pp., £6, April 1992, 0 436 20103 8 An African Elegy by Ben Okri. Cape, 84 pp., £4.99, March 1992, 9780224030069 Memorabilia by Colin Falck. Taxus, 77 pp., £5.95, March 1992, 1 873012 23 3 Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope. Faber, 87 pp., £12.99, March 1992, 9780571166589
John Tranter
Poem: ‘Journey’
Dinah Birch
Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance by Richard Jenkyns. HarperCollins, 363 pp., £20, November 1991, 0 00 223843 8
Andrew Motion
Poem: ‘From ‘The Price of Everything’’
John Lloyd
Diary: Split Scots
Janet Adam Smith
The Grand Tours of Katherine Wilmot: France 1801-3 and Russia 1805-7 edited by Elizabeth Mavor. Weidenfeld, 187 pp., £17.99, February 1992, 0 297 81223 8
Gabriele Annan
From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in 19th-Century Dance by Elizabeth Aldrich. Northwestern, 255 pp., $42.95, February 1992, 0 8101 0912 3
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