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. Nebraska, 312 pp., £33.25, January 1993, 0 8032 2145 2 The Nuclear Peninsula by Françoise Zonabend, translated by J.A. Underwood. Cambridge, 138 pp., £19.95, April 1993, 0 521 41321 4
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. California, 225 pp., £18.95, February 1993, 0 520 06569 7 Ancient Land, Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt and its Rituals by Tom Lowenstein. Bloomsbury, 189 pp., £20, April 1993, 0 7475 1341 4
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. Harvard, 836 pp., £29.95, May 1993, 0 674 15423 1
Margaret Anne Doody
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in 18th-century Britain by G.J. Barker-Benfield. Chicago, 520 pp., £39.95, October 1992, 0 226 03713 4 Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context by Ann Jessie van Sant. Cambridge, 143 pp., £27.95, January 1993, 0 521 40226 3 Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the 18th Century by Philip Rawlings. Routledge, 222 pp., £40, October 1992, 0 415 05056 1 Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830 by Rictor Norton. Gay Men’s Press, 302 pp., £12.95, September 1992, 0 85449 188 0
James Wood
The New Poetry edited by Michael Hulse, David Kennedy and David Morley. Bloodaxe, 352 pp., £25, May 1993, 1 85224 244 2 Who Whispered Near Me by Killarney Clary. Bloodaxe, 64 pp., £5.95, February 1993, 1 85224 149 7 Sunset Grill by Anne Rouse. Bloodaxe, 64 pp., £5.95, March 1993, 1 85224 219 1 Half Moon Bay by Paul Mills. Carcanet, 95 pp., £6.95, February 1993, 9781857540000 Shoah by Harry Smart. Faber, 74 pp., £5.99, April 1993, 0 571 16793 4 The Autonomous Region by Kathleen Jamie. Bloodaxe, 79 pp., £7.95, March 1993, 9781852241735 Collected Poems by F.T. Prince. Carcanet, 319 pp., £25, March 1993, 1 85754 030 1 Stirring Stuff by Selwyn Pritchard. Sinclair-Stevenson, 145 pp., £8.99, April 1993, 9781856193085 News from the Brighton Front by Nicki Jackowska. Sinclair-Stevenson, 86 pp., £7.99, April 1993, 1 85619 306 3 Translations from the Natural World by Les Murray. Carcanet, 67 pp., £6.95, March 1993, 1 85754 005 0
Patrick Parrinder
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks. Cape, 403 pp., £19.99, June 1993, 9780224030373
Wendy Brandmark
Theory of War by Joan Brady. Deutsch, 209 pp., £14.99, January 1993, 0 233 38810 9 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Bloomsbury, 250 pp., £15.99, June 1993, 0 7475 1466 6
Tom Lowenstein
Amaravati: Buddhist Sculpture from the Great Stupa by Robert Knox. British Museum, 247 pp., £40, November 1992, 0 7141 1452 9
David Allen
The Culture of Flowers by Jack Goody. Cambridge, 480 pp., £40, February 1993, 0 521 41441 5
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. Oxford, 311 pp., £35, May 1993, 0 19 820389 6 The House of Lords at Work: A Study Based on the 1988-89 Session edited by Donald Shell and David Beamish. Oxford, 420 pp., £45, March 1993, 0 19 827762 8
Edward Pearce
Diaries by Alan Clark. Weidenfeld, 421 pp., £20, June 1993, 0 297 81352 8
Paul Foot
Diary: The Impotence of Alan Clark
R.W. Johnson
Magical Socialism
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