Vol. 15 No. 10 · 27 May 1993
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Vol. 15 No. 10 · 27 May 1993
A.N. Wilson
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds. Hodder, 398 pp., £25, March 1993, 0 340 58151 4
Letters
Miranda Seymour, Andrew Coates, Paul Seabright, Neville Smith, Ritchie Robertson, Penny McCarthy, Miles Burrows, Hamish Dickie-Clark
Ian Aitken
Tired and Emotional: The life of George Brown by Peter Paterson. Chatto, 320 pp., £20, May 1993, 0 7011 3976 5
Terry Eagleton
Body Work by Peter Brooks. Harvard, 325 pp., £39.95, May 1993, 0 674 07724 5
John Sturrock
Flaubert–Sand: The Correspondence translated by Barbara Bray. HarperCollins, 428 pp., £20, March 1993, 0 00 217625 4 Correspondence. Tome III: janvier 1859 – décembre 1868 by Gustave Flaubert, edited by Jean Bruneau. Gallimard, 1727 pp., frs 20, March 1991, 2 07 010669 1 Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Francis Steegmuller. Everyman, 330 pp., £8.99, March 1993, 1 85715 140 2 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Geoffrey Wall. Penguin, 292 pp., £4.99, June 1992, 0 14 044526 9
Ciaran Carson
Poem: ‘Opus Operandi’
Tom Nairn
The Spirit of the Age: An Account of Our Times by David Selbourne. Sinclair-Stevenson, 388 pp., £20, February 1993, 1 85619 204 0
Michael Hofmann
What Remains, and Other Stories by Christa Wolf, translated by Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian. Virago, 295 pp., £8.99, April 1993, 1 85381 417 2 The Writer’s Dimension: Selected Essays by Christa Wolf, edited by Alexander Stephan, translated by Jan van Heurck. Virago, 336 pp., £17.99, April 1993, 1 85381 312 5
Donald Davie
The English Bible and the 17th-Century Revolution by Christopher Hill. Allen Lane, 466 pp., £25, February 1993, 0 7139 9078 3
Susan Brigden
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c.1400-c.1580 by Eamon Duffy. Yale, 704 pp., £29.95, November 1992, 0 300 05342 8
Rosemary Dinnage
Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon: Theosophy and the Emergence of the Western Guru by Peter Washington. Secker, 470 pp., £20, April 1993, 0 436 56418 1
Eric Winter
Poem: ‘An Avuncular Request’
Gareth Stedman Jones
Annie Besant: A Biography by Anne Taylor. Oxford, 383 pp., £25, April 1992, 0 19 211796 3
Wendy Steiner
Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes by Helen Benedict. Oxford, 309 pp., £22.50, February 1993, 0 19 506680 4 Reproducing Rape: Domination through Talk in the Courtroom by Gregory Matoesian. Polity, 256 pp., £45, February 1993, 0 7456 1036 6
Adam Lively
Dr Haggard’s Disease by Patrick McGrath. Viking, 180 pp., £14.99, May 1993, 0 670 85195 7 Griefwork by James Hamilton-Paterson. Cape, 238 pp., £14.99, May 1993, 9780224037174
Blake Morrison
Diary: On the Independent on Sunday
C.K. Stead
E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 edited by George Firmage. Liveright, 1102 pp., £33, January 1993, 0 87140 145 2
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