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Vol. 15 No. 20 · 21 October 1993
Edward Said
The Morning After
Letters
David Herbert, R.W. Farrington, Alan Sinfield, Attila Hoare, Colin McGinn, Bruno de Mazières
Avi Shlaim
Arafat’s Camel
Peter Clarke
Here we go
Philip Purser
The Expense of Glory: A Life of John Reith by Ian McIntyre. HarperCollins, 447 pp., £20, September 1993, 0 00 215963 5
David Sylvester
Hanging Offence
John Lanchester
United States by Gore Vidal. Deutsch, 1298 pp., £25, October 1993, 0 233 98832 7 What Henry James Knew, and Other Essays on Writers by Cynthia Ozick. Cape, 363 pp., £12.99, June 1993, 0 224 03329 8 Sentimental Journeys by Joan Didion. HarperCollins, 319 pp., £15, January 1993, 0 00 255146 2
John Lloyd
October!
Douglas Oliver
Poem: ‘Cirque d’hiver’
Keith Kyle
The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations and Provocations by John Lewis Gaddis. Oxford, 301 pp., £19.50, July 1992, 0 19 505201 3 Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953-71 by Douglas Brinkley. Yale, 429 pp., £22, February 1993, 0 300 04773 8 The Quest for Stability: Problems of West European Security 1918-1957 edited by Rolf Ahmann, A.M. Birke and Michael Howard. Oxford, 546 pp., £50, June 1993, 0 19 920503 5
Patrice Higonnet
At the Heart of a Tiger: Clemenceau and His World 1841-1929 by Gregor Dallas. Macmillan, 672 pp., £25, January 1993, 0 333 49788 0
Geoffrey Hawthorn
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution by Partha Dasgupta. Oxford, 661 pp., £35, July 1993, 0 19 828756 9
R.W. Johnson
Return to Paradise by Breyten Breytenbach. Faber, 214 pp., £17.50, November 1993, 0 571 16989 9
Michael Wood
‘The Pit’ and ‘Tonight’ by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Peter Bush. Quartet, 216 pp., £12.95, June 1991, 0 7043 2767 8 The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Nick Caistor. Serpent’s Tail, 186 pp., £8.99, February 1992, 1 85242 191 6 ‘Farewells’ and ‘A Grave with No Name’ by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Peter Bush. Quartet, 136 pp., £12.95, March 1992, 0 7043 7015 8 Body Snatcher by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Alfred MacAdam. Quartet, 305 pp., £13.95, October 1991, 9780704327979 A Brief Life by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Hortense Carpentier. Serpent’s Tail, 292 pp., £9.99, February 1993, 1 85242 301 3 Cuando ya no importe by Juan Carlos Onetti. Alfaguara, 205 pp., £10.95, March 1993, 84 204 8107 6
Dinah Birch
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker. Viking, 280 pp., £14.99, September 1993, 0 670 84414 4
A.N. Wilson
Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford edited by Charlotte Mosley. Hodder, 538 pp., £20, September 1993, 0 340 53784 1
Perry Anderson
Diary: On E.P. Thompson
Lorna Sage
My Schooldays
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