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Vol. 15 No. 15 · 5 August 1993

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Vol. 15 No. 15 · 5 August 1993

John Gittings

Communists have parents too

Letters

Brian Burch, Anne Carson, David Sandblom, John Costello, Phillip Knightley, David Rosenthal

Mark Hertsgaard

On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site by Michele Stenehjem Gerber
The Nuclear Peninsula by Françoise Zonabend, translated by J.A. Underwood

Francis Spufford

The Things That Were Said of Them: Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikigaq People told by Asatchaq, translated by Tukummiq and Tom Lowenstein
Ancient Land, Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt and its Rituals by Tom Lowenstein

Fred D’Aguiar

Three Poems

Adam Phillips

The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939 edited by Andrew Paskauskas, introduced by Riccardo Steiner

Margaret Anne Doody

The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in 18th-century Britain by G.J. Barker-Benfield
Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context by Ann Jessie van Sant
Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the 18th Century by Philip Rawlings
Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830 by Rictor Norton

James Wood

The New Poetry edited by Michael Hulse, David Kennedy and David Morley
Who Whispered Near Me by Killarney Clary
Sunset Grill by Anne Rouse
Half Moon Bay by Paul Mills
Shoah by Harry Smart
The Autonomous Region by Kathleen Jamie
Collected Poems by F.T. Prince
Stirring Stuff by Selwyn Pritchard
News from the Brighton Front by Nicki Jackowska
Translations from the Natural World by Les Murray

Patrick Parrinder

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks

Wendy Brandmark

Theory of War by Joan Brady
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Tom Lowenstein

Amaravati: Buddhist Sculpture from the Great Stupa by Robert Knox

David Allen

The Culture of Flowers by Jack Goody

Robert Crawford

Poem: ‘Jesus Christ endorses the new Hillman Imp’

Ian Aitken

Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain 1884-1914 by Andrew Adonis
The House of Lords at Work: A Study Based on the 1988-89 Session edited by Donald Shell and David Beamish

Edward Pearce

Diaries by Alan Clark

Paul Foot

Diary: The Impotence of Alan Clark

R.W. Johnson

Magical Socialism

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