Vol. 15 No. 3 · 11 February 1993

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Vol. 15 No. 3 · 11 February 1993

Nicholas Spice

Benjamin Britten by Humphrey Carpenter

Letters

Denis MacShane, John Sturrock, W.A. Suchting, Jacqueline Castles, Stuart Pierson, Earl Miner, Warren Keith Wright, Ruth Evans, G.J. Cook

Elaine Showalter

Sex, Art and American Culture by Camille Paglia

Jenny Diski

The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters

Frank Kermode

Meaning by Shakespeare by Terence Hawkes
Shakespeare’s Professional Career by Peter Thomson
Shakespeare’s Mouldy Tales by Leah Scragg
Reading Shakespeare’s Characters by Christy Desmet
Bit Parts in Shakespeare’s Plays by Molly Mahood

Edward Said

Wagner in Performance edited by Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer
Wagner: Race and Revolution by Paul Lawrence Rose
Wagner Handbook edited by Ulrich Müller and Peter Wapnewski, translated by John Deathridge
Richard Wagner’s Visit to Rossini and An Evening at Rossini’s in Beau-Séjour by Edmond Michotte, translated by Herbert Weinstock

Hugo Williams

Four Poems

Ross McKibbin

Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Neil Kinnock’s Labour Party by Richard Heffernan and Mike Marqusee

Michael Howard

Never Again: Britain 1945-51 by Peter Hennessy
Churchill on the Home Front 1900-1955 by Paul Addison

Thomas Healy

Living Dangerously: Young Offenders in their Own Words by Roger Graef

Will Self

Complete Prose by Woody Allen

Patrick Parrinder

The Porcupine by Julian Barnes

Ronan Bennett

Inshallah by Oriana Fallaci, translated by James Marcus

Nicholas Penny

Jacopo della Quercia by James Beck
Michelangelo and the Creation of the Sistine Chapel by Robin Richmond
Rembrandt. The Master and his Workshop: Paintings by Christopher Brown, Jan Kelch and Pieter van Thiel
Michelangelo’s Drawings: The Science of Attribution by Alexander Perrig
Michelangelo and his Drawings by Michael Hirst
The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation by James Saslow

Stephen Smith

Diary: What about Somalia?

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