Vol. 14 No. 22 · 19 November 1992

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Vol. 14 No. 22 · 19 November 1992

Peter Clarke

Maastricht or no Maastricht

Letters

Denis MacShane, Janet Bloomfield, Jacqueline Castles, Andrew Motion, Anne Chisholm, Michael Davie, Jon Paul Henry, George York III, Padraig O Conchuir, Tony Heal, Michael Ruse, Dick Hill, L.G. Walker

Edward Luttwak

The Culture of Contentment by J.K. Galbraith. Sinclair-Stevenson, 195 pp., £14.95, April 1992, 1 85619 147 8

Philippa Tristram

Tiananmen Revisited

Colin McGinn

Bertrand Russell: A Life by Caroline Moorehead. Sinclair-Stevenson, 596 pp., £20, September 1992, 9781856191807

Derek Hirst

A Spark in the Ashes: The Pamphlets of John Warr edited by Stephen Sedley and Lawrence Kaplan. Verso, 116 pp., £9.95, October 1992, 0 86091 599 9

Nicola Lacey

Eve was framed: Women and British Justice by Helena Kennedy. Chatto, 285 pp., £16.99, October 1992, 0 7011 3523 9

Michael Burns

The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 by Alain Corbin, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Polity, 164 pp., £25, July 1992, 0 7456 0895 7

John Lloyd

Why Georgia matters

Michael Hofmann

A Feast in the Garden by George Konrad, translated by Imre Goldstein. Faber, 394 pp., £14.99, October 1992, 0 571 16623 7
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley. Picador, 198 pp., £5.99, August 1992, 0 330 32099 8
Brothers by Carmelo Samona, translated by Linda Lappin. Carcanet, 131 pp., £13.95, August 1992, 0 85635 990 4
Rolling by Thomas Healy. Polygon, 161 pp., £7.95, July 1992, 0 7486 6121 2

Alan Dixon

Poem: ‘Jean Cocteau’

James Wood

The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Viking, 524 pp., £9.99, October 1992, 0 670 84854 9
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. Flamingo, 371 pp., £5.99, October 1992, 0 00 654482 7

John Barrell

Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt. Chatto, 290 pp., £14.99, October 1992, 0 7011 3717 7

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture by Helena Michie. Oxford, 216 pp., £25, August 1992, 0 19 507387 8
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen. Manchester, 460 pp., £45, October 1992, 0 7190 3827 8

Tim Hilton

Diary: Art Talk

Peter Campbell

Epstein: Artist against the Establishment by Stephen Gardiner. Joseph, 532 pp., £20, September 1992, 9780718129446

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