Vol. 15 No. 8 · 22 April 1993
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Vol. 15 No. 8 · 22 April 1993
Margaret Anne Doody
The Works of Aphra Behn. Vol. I: Poetry edited by Janet Todd. Pickering & Chatto, 481 pp., £55, September 1992, 1 85196 012 0 Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works by Aphra Behn, edited by Janet Todd. Penguin, 385 pp., £6.99, November 1992, 0 14 043338 4
Letters
Pat Rogers, Joan Anholt, D.G. Wright, Yitzhak Laor, Peter Best, Michael Tanner, Edward Said, Frank Smith, Barry Mitchell
Helga Graham
Saudis break the silence
John Lanchester
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. Phoenix, 1349 pp., £20, March 1993, 1 897580 20 7
Valentine Cunningham
Ghosts by John Banville. Secker, 245 pp., £14.99, April 1993, 0 436 19991 2
John Bayley
Aardvark
Ian Hamilton
Behind Closed Doors by Irving Scholar and Mihir Bose. Deutsch, 367 pp., £14.99, November 1992, 0 233 98824 6 Sick as a Parrot: The Inside Story of the Spurs Fiasco by Chris Horrie. Virgin, 293 pp., £4.99, August 1992, 0 86369 620 1 Gary Lineker: Strikingly Different by Colin Malam. Stanley Paul, 147 pp., £12.99, January 1993, 0 09 175424 0
John Barrell
The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons edited by C.S. Nicholls. Oxford, 790 pp., £80, January 1993, 0 19 865211 9
Noël Annan
A History of Cambridge University. Vol. IV: 1870-1990 by Christopher Brooke. Cambridge, 652 pp., £50, December 1992, 9780521343503
Allen Curnow
Poem: ‘Another Weekend at the Beach’
Arthur C. Danto
The Mind and its Depths by Richard Wollheim. Harvard, 214 pp., £19.95, March 1993, 9780674576117 Psychoanalysis, Mind and Art: Perspectives on Richard Wollheim edited by Jim Hopkins and Anthony Savile. Blackwell, 383 pp., £40, October 1992, 0 631 17571 7
Tony Tanner
The Correspondence of William James. Vol. I: William and Henry 1861-1884 edited by Ignas Skrupskelis and Elizabeth Berkeley. Virginia, 477 pp., £39.95, January 1993, 0 8139 1338 1 Henry James: The Imagination of Genius by Fred Kaplan. Hodder, 620 pp., £25, November 1992, 9780340555538
Steve Jones
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson. Allen Lane, 424 pp., £22.50, February 1993, 0 7139 9094 5
Jenny Diski
Diary: On Palm Island
Jeremy Harding
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique by William Finnegan. California, 344 pp., £25, April 1992, 0 520 07804 7 Conspicuous Destruction: War, Famine and the Reform Process in Mozambique by Karl Maier, Kemal Mustafa and Alex Vines. Africa Watch, 202 pp., £8.99, July 1992, 1 56432 079 0 African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe by Doris Lessing. HarperCollins, 442 pp., £16.99, October 1992, 0 00 255019 9
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