Vol. 15 No. 16 · 19 August 1993
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Vol. 15 No. 16 · 19 August 1993
Edward Luttwak
Screw you
Letters
Anthony Kenny, Keith Flett, Barbara Everett, S.F. Bolt, Sylvia Lawson, Geoffrey Dutton, Joan Phillips, Adrian Bowyer, Duncan Fallowell, Freddy Hurdis-Jones, Carl Andre
Linda Colley
The End of the House of Windsor: Birth of a British Republic by Stephen Haseler. Tauris, 208 pp., £14.95, June 1993, 1 85043 735 1 The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor by A.N. Wilson. Sinclair-Stevenson, 211 pp., £16.99, May 1993, 1 85619 354 3 Royal Throne: The Future of the Monarchy by Elizabeth Longford. Hodder, 189 pp., £16.99, April 1993, 0 340 58587 0 Diana v. Charles by James Whitaker. Signet, 237 pp., £14.99, May 1993, 0 670 85245 7 The Tarnished Crown by Anthony Holden. Bantam, 400 pp., £16.99, May 1993, 0 593 02472 9 Inheritance: A Psychological History of the Royal Family by Dennis Friedman. Sidgwick, 212 pp., £14.99, April 1993, 0 283 06124 3 Raine and Johnnie: The Spencers and the Scandal of Althorp by Angela Levin. Weidenfeld, 297 pp., £17.99, July 1993, 0 297 81325 0
Wynne Godley
Derailed
Mark Elvin
The Fate of Hong Kong by Gerald Segal. Simon and Schuster, 256 pp., £16.99, September 1993, 0 671 71169 5 The End of Hong Kong: The Secret Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat by Robert Cottrell. Murray, 244 pp., £19.99, April 1993, 0 7195 4992 2
Colin McGinn
Donald Davidson by Simon Evnine. Polity, 198 pp., £9.95, January 1992, 0 7456 0612 1 Donald Davidson’s Philosophy of Language: An Introduction by Bjorn Ramberg. Blackwell, 153 pp., £12.95, July 1989, 0 631 16458 8
Donald Hall
Two Poems
A.D. Nuttall
Shakespeare and Ovid by Jonathan Bate. Oxford, 292 pp., £35, May 1993, 0 19 812954 8
Gisela Striker
Shame and Necessity by Bernard Williams. California, 254 pp., £25, May 1993, 0 520 08046 7
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Bisexuality in the Ancient World by Eva Cantarella, translated by Cormac O Cuilleanain. Yale, 284 pp., £19.95, September 1992, 0 300 04844 0
Michael Mason
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London by Judith Walkowitz. Virago, 353 pp., £16.99, November 1992, 1 85381 517 9 Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in 19th-century Married Life by James Hammerton. Routledge, 236 pp., £37.50, November 1992, 0 415 03622 4 Victorian Scandals: Representations of Gender and Class edited by Kristine Ottersen Garrigan. Ohio, 337 pp., $34.99, August 1992, 0 8214 1019 9
E.S. Turner
The Descent of Manners: Etiquette, Rules and the Victorians by Andrew St George. Chatto, 330 pp., £20, July 1993, 0 7011 3623 5
D.J. Enright
Poem: ‘Supervision’
Daniel Kevles
Perilous Knowledge: The Human Genome Project and its Implications by Tom Wilkie. Faber, 195 pp., £14.99, May 1993, 0 571 16423 4 The Language of the Genes: Biology, History and the Evolutionary Future by Steve Jones. HarperCollins, 236 pp., £16.99, June 1993, 0 00 255020 2
Paul Driver
Shining Brow by Paul Muldoon. Faber, 86 pp., £5.99, February 1993, 0 571 16789 6
Jonathan Coe
Afternoon Raag by Amit Chaudhuri. Heinemann, 133 pp., £3.99, June 1993, 0 434 12349 8
Leslie Wilson
Diary: Talking Rubbish
Amit Chaudhuri
Story: ‘Portrait of an Artist’
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