Vol. 15 No. 1 · 7 January 1993
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Vol. 15 No. 1 · 7 January 1993
Paul Driver
The Roaring Silence: John Cage, A Life by David Revill. Bloomsbury, 375 pp., £22.50, September 1992, 0 7475 1215 9
Letters
Michael Smethurst, Bonnie McDougall, Chan Hong-Mo, Shen Ning, Lau Bing Sum, Phillip Baker, Stephen Ng, Bobby Chan, Gerald Hammond, Gerald Long, Geoffrey Moorhouse, Adrian Bowyer, Blair Ewing, Tim Longville, Per Runesson, Rosemary Hill, Sylvia Lawson
Basil Davidson
Fitzroy Maclean by Frank McLynn. Murray, 413 pp., £25, October 1992, 9780719549717 Franz Joseph by Jean-Paul Bled, translated by Teresa Bridgeman. Blackwell, 359 pp., £45, September 1992, 0 631 16778 1
Paul Addison
John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937 by Robert Skidelsky. Macmillan, 731 pp., £20, November 1992, 0 333 37138 0 Maynard Keynes: An Economist’s Biography by D.E. Moggridge. Routledge, 941 pp., £35, April 1992, 9780415051415
Wynne Godley
Reflections on Monetarism by Tim Congdon. Edward Elgar, 320 pp., £35, November 1992, 1 85278 441 5
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism by Anthony Pagden. Yale, 212 pp., £18.95, January 1993, 0 300 05285 5 New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton, April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi. Harvard, 282 pp., £23.95, October 1992, 0 674 61875 0 The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus by Valerie Flint. Princeton, 233 pp., £16, August 1992, 0 691 05681 1 Land without Evil: Utopian Journeys across the South American Watershed by Richard Gott. Verso, 299 pp., £18.95, January 1993, 0 86091 398 8
J.G.A. Pocock
The Cambridge History of Political Thought: 1450-1700 edited by J.H. Burns and Mark Goldie. Cambridge, 798 pp., £60, August 1991, 0 521 24716 0
Gary Taylor
Shakespeare: The Later Years by Russell Fraser. Columbia, 380 pp., $35, April 1992, 0 231 06766 6 Shakespeare: His Life, Work and Era by Dennis Kay. Sidgwick, 368 pp., £20, May 1992, 0 283 99878 4 William Shakespeare: The Anatomy of an Enigma by Peter Razzell. Caliban, 188 pp., May 1992, 1 85066 010 7 Politics, Plague and Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Stuart Years by Leeds Barroll. Cornell, 249 pp., £20.80, January 1992, 0 8014 2479 8 Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus by Margreta de Grazia. Oxford, 244 pp., £30, February 1991, 0 19 811778 7
Tom Shippey
The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer by Derek Pearsall. Blackwell, 365 pp., £19.95, September 1992, 1 55786 205 2 A Wyf ther was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck edited by Juliette Dor. University of Liège, 300 pp., June 1992, 2 87233 004 6 Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of 14th-Century Texts by Paul Strohm. Princeton, 205 pp., £27.50, November 1992, 0 691 06880 1
Danny Karlin
Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West by M.B. Parkes. Scolar, 327 pp., £55, September 1992, 0 85967 742 7
John Sutherland
The Two Forgers: A Biography of Harry Buxton Forman and Thomas James Wise by John Collins. Scolar, 317 pp., £27.50, May 1992, 0 85967 754 0 Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship by Anthony Grafton. Princeton, 157 pp., £10.75, May 1990, 0 691 05544 0
Nicholas Wade
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick. Little, Brown, 532 pp., £18.99, October 1992, 0 316 90316 7
Eric Korn
Virtual Reality by Howard Rheingold. Secker, 415 pp., £19.99, October 1992, 0 436 41212 8 Cyberpunk by Katie Hafner and John Markoff. Fourth Estate, 368 pp., £14.99, September 1992, 1 872180 94 9 Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell: Virtual Reality and its Implications by Barrie Sherman and Phil Judkins. Hodder, 224 pp., £12.99, July 1992, 0 340 56905 0
Anthony Quinn
The Conclave by Michael Bracewell. Secker, 339 pp., £8.99, October 1992, 0 436 20020 1 Cock & Bull by Will Self. Bloomsbury, 310 pp., £9.99, October 1992, 0 7475 1274 4
Pascale Petit
Poem: ‘My Mother’s Clothes’
John Lloyd
Diary: In Moscow
Ian Gregson
Landlocked by Mark Ford. Chatto, 51 pp., £5.99, February 1992, 0 7011 3750 9 The English Earthquake by Eva Salzman. Bloodaxe, 64 pp., £5.95, May 1992, 1 85224 177 2 Bleeding Heart Yard by William Scammell. Peterloo, 63 pp., £6.95, May 1992, 1 871471 28 1 The Game: Tennis Poems by William Scammell. Peterloo, 48 pp., £6, June 1992, 1 871471 27 3 Marconi’s Cottage by Medbh McGuckian. Bloodaxe, 110 pp., £6.95, May 1992, 1 85224 197 7
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