Vol. 14 No. 14 · 23 July 1992

Browse other issues from this year

Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Margaret Anne Doody

Backlash: The Undeclared War against Women by Susan Faludi. Chatto, 592 pp., £9.99, March 1992, 0 7011 4643 5
The War against Women by Marilyn French. Hamish Hamilton, 229 pp., £9.99, March 1992, 0 241 13271 1

Letters

Ian McEwan, Craig Copetas, Phil Read, Paul Roazen, A.D. Nuttall, Nigel Smith, Nicolas Walter, David Townsend, R.W. Johnson

Isaac Raine

Poem: ‘My Dragon School’

Anne Stevenson

Poem: ‘A Belief’

Ian Hamilton

The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia by John Carey. Faber, 246 pp., £14.99, July 1992, 0 571 16273 8

Sheldon Rothblatt

Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature by Stephen Fender. Cambridge, 400 pp., £40, April 1992, 0 521 41175 0

Frances Harris

Charles James Fox by L.G Mitchell. Oxford, 338 pp., £25, June 1992, 0 19 820104 4

David A. Bell

The Fabrication of Louis XIV by Peter Burke. Yale, 242 pp., £19.95, May 1992, 0 300 05153 0

M.F. Burnyeat

The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama. Hamish Hamilton, 418 pp., £20, March 1992, 0 241 13013 1

Paul Seabright

Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse; Envisioning a Sustainable Future by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers. Earthscan, 320 pp., £19.95, May 1992, 9781853831317

Frank McLynn

The Malaria Capers by Robert Desowitz. Norton, 288 pp., £14.95, February 1992, 9780393030136

Chauncey Loomis

Last Places: A Journey to the North by Lawrence Millman. Sphere, 256 pp., £5.95, February 1992, 0 349 10225 2

John Bayley

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson. Cape, 307 pp., £15.99, June 1992, 0 224 02730 1

Michael Hofmann

Bohin Manor by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Richard Lourie. Faber, 240 pp., £12.99, July 1992, 0 571 14437 3

Stephen Smith

Diary: In Mogadishu

Jonathan Coe

Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney. Bloomsbury, 416 pp., £15.99, May 1992, 0 7475 1152 7
The Lost Father by Mona Simpson. Faber, 506 pp., £14.99, May 1992, 0 571 16149 9
Out with the Stars by James Purdy. Peter Owen, 192 pp., £14.99, June 1992, 0 7206 0861 9

David Herd

Goodstone by Fred Voss. Bloodaxe, 180 pp., £7.95, November 1991, 1 85224 198 5

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.

Sign up to our newsletter

For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.

Newsletter Preferences