Vol. 15 No. 22 · 18 November 1993

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Vol. 15 No. 22 · 18 November 1993

Colm Tóibín

Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History by R.F. Foster. Allen Lane, 305 pp., £22.50, October 1993, 0 7139 9095 3

Letters

Harold Beaver, Jasa Almuli, Marina Warner, Richard Harrier, Keith Graham, Gregor Dallas, Fiona Pitt-Kethley

Bernard Williams

Inequality Examined by Amartya Sen. Oxford, 207 pp., £19.95, September 1992, 0 19 828334 2

Andrew O’Hagan

Walk on by

John Tranter

Poem: ‘Pantoum: The Waiting Room’

M.F. Perutz

Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb by Thomas Powers. Cape, 610 pp., £20, April 1993, 0 224 03641 6
Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall Transcripts introduced by Charles Frank. Institute of Physics, 515 pp., £14.95, May 1993, 0 7503 0274 7

Charles Maier

German Resistance against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad 1938-1945 by Klemens von Klemperer. Oxford, 487 pp., £45, April 1992, 0 19 821940 7

Michael Burns

Death and the After-Life in Modern France by Thomas Kselman. Princeton, 413 pp., £40, March 1993, 0 691 00889 2

Peter Brooks

Benjamin Constant: A Biography by Dennis Wood. Routledge, 321 pp., £40, June 1993, 0 415 01937 0
Isabelle de Charrière (Belle de Zuylen): A Biography by C.P Courtney. Voltaire Foundation, 810 pp., £49, August 1993, 0 7294 0439 0

Michael Dobson

‘Hamlet’ versus ‘Lear’: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare’s Art by R.A. Foakes. Cambridge, 262 pp., £30, March 1993, 0 521 34292 9
Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels by Brian Vickers. Yale, 508 pp., £35, April 1993, 0 300 05415 7
Shakespeare, Poet and Citizen by Victor Kieran. Verso, 261 pp., £18.95, March 1993, 0 86091 392 9

Alan Ross

Poem: ‘Pipelines at Al Alimadi’

Patrick Parrinder

The Modern British Novel by Malcolm Bradbury. Secker, 512 pp., £20, October 1993, 0 436 20132 1
After the War: The Novel and English Society since 1945 by D.J. Taylor. Chatto, 310 pp., £17.99, September 1993, 9780701137694

John Sutherland

Complicity by Iain Banks. Little, Brown, 313 pp., £15.99, September 1993, 0 316 90688 3
Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks. Orbit, 496 pp., £8.99, January 1994, 1 85723 185 6

Stephen Smith

Diary: Encounters at Holy Cross

A. Craig Copetas

New York Days by Willie Morris. Little, Brown, 400 pp., £19.45, September 1993, 0 316 58421 5

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