Vol. 14 No. 15 · 6 August 1992

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Vol. 14 No. 15 · 6 August 1992

John Sutherland

Decline of Donnish Dominion by A.H. Halsey
Millikan’s School: A History of the California Institute of Technology by Judith Goodstein

Letters

Robert Crawford, Diana Hendry, John Webb, Leonard Jackson, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Keith Flett

Tony Honoré

Sex and Reason by Richard Posner

Frank Kermode

Moral Literacy: Or how to do the right thing by Colin McGinn
The Space Trap by Colin McGinn

Susan Brigden

Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown

Jenny Turner

Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark

Naomi Lewis

Dorian’s Castle

Claude Rawson

The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan, edited by James Woolley
Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life by Joseph McMinn

Marilyn Butler

The Lyrical Ballads: Longman Annotated Texts edited by Michael Mason
Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Literary Possession by Susan Eilenberg
The Politics of Nature: Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries by Nicholas Roe

Tom Leonard

Poem: ‘poem’

David Bromwich

Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft, Matilda by Mary Shelley edited by Janet Todd
Lady Sophia Sternheim by Sophie von La Roche, edited by James Lynn

Craig Raine

Kipling and Modernism

Seamus Heaney

Poem: ‘An Invocation’

Alistair Elliot

Poem: ‘Highland Hospitality’

Jeremy Treglown

Writers on World War Two: An Anthology edited by Mordecai Richler
Legacies and Ambiguities: Post-war Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan edited by Ernestine Schlant and Thomas Rimer

Julian Symons

A Choice of Murder by Peter Vansittart
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by Barbara Anderson
Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
Double Down by Tom Kakonis

Robert Alter

Life with a Star by Jiri Weil, translated by Rita Klimova and Roslyn Schloss
Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil, translated by Marie Winn

Ian Aitken

Diary: Closing Time at the Last Chance Saloon

Philip Purser

Fatherland by Robert Harris

Paul Delany

Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies

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