Richard Rorty

The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor. Harvard, 142 pp., £13.95, November 1992, 0 674 26863 6

Letters

Christopher Hitchens, Nicholas Penny, David Kitson, David Pimm, John Allen Paulos, Peter Trudgill, Warren Keith Wright, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Elisa Segrave, David Townsend

Wynne Godley

If in a year’s time a Chancellor …

John Lloyd

The Struggle for Russia: Power and Change in the Democratic Revolution by Ruslan Khasbulatov, translated by Richard Sakwa. Routledge, 256 pp., £19.99, April 1993, 0 415 09292 2

Tom Paulin

Poem: ‘Cadmus and the Dragon’

Christopher Hitchens

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers. Gollancz, 576 pp., £18.99, March 1993, 0 575 04236 2

W.J.T. Mitchell

Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said. Chatto, 444 pp., £20, February 1993, 0 7011 3808 4

Ian Pople

Poem: ‘At the Navigation’

Colm Tóibín

Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett, edited by Eoin O’Brien and Edith Fournier. Black Cat, 241 pp., £18.99, November 1992, 0 7145 4212 1

Terry Eagleton

No Other Life by Brian Moore. Bloomsbury, 216 pp., £14.99, February 1993, 0 7475 1474 7

John Sutherland

Tennyson by Michael Thorn. Little, Brown, 566 pp., £18.99, October 1992, 0 316 90299 3
Tennyson by Peter Levi. Macmillan, 370 pp., £20, March 1993, 0 333 52205 2

Patrick Parrinder

The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells by Michael Coren. Bloomsbury, 240 pp., £20, January 1993, 0 7475 1158 6

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

Poem: ‘Designer Sex’

Anthony Julius

Modern British Jewry by Geoffrey Alderman. Oxford, 397 pp., £40, September 1992, 0 19 820145 1

Eric Hobsbawm

Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933 by Peter Pulzer. Blackwell, 370 pp., £35, March 1992, 0 631 17282 3
The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait by Ruth Gay. Yale, 336 pp., £19.95, September 1992, 0 300 05155 7

Sylvia Lawson

Diary: In Sydney

Paul Driver

Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards by Gerhard von Breuning, edited by Maynard Solomon, translated by Henry Mins and Maynard Solomon. Cambridge, 154 pp., £15.95, November 1992, 0 521 41710 4
Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process by Lewis Lockwood. Harvard, 283 pp., £31.95, July 1992, 0 674 06362 7

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