Vol. 16 No. 1 · 6 January 1994

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Stanley Cavell

The Marx Brothers: ‘A Day at the Races’, ‘Monkey Business’ and ‘Duck Soup’ introduced by Karl French. Faber, 261 pp., £8.99, November 1993, 0 571 16647 4

Letters

Christopher Hitchens, Brian Vickers, Keith Flett, Brian Featherstone, Jeff Ewener, David Townsend, Geoffrey Barrow, Howard Kahane, Freddy Hurdis-Jones

David Sylvester

Investigating Sex: Surrealist Research 1928-1932 edited by José Pierre, translated by Malcolm Imrie. Verso, 215 pp., £17.95, November 1992, 0 86091 378 3

Paul Foot

Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie – Inside the DIA by Donald Goddard and Lester Coleman. Bloomsbury, 325 pp., £16.99, September 1993, 9780747515623
The Media and Disasters: Pan-Am 103 by Joan Deppa, Maria Russell, Dona Hayes and Elizabeth Lynne Flocke. Fulton, 346 pp., £14.99, October 1993, 9781853462252

R.W. Johnson

The Last Days of Bhambayi

Edwin Morgan

Poem: ‘Virtual and Other Realities – 19’

Malcolm Deas

Narco Nabobs

Mark Lilla

The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy. Murray, 144 pp., £14.99, October 1993, 0 7195 5312 1

Michael Dummett

Politics, Logic and Love: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort by Anita Burdman Feferman. A.K. Peters, 415 pp., £19.95, November 1993, 0 86720 286 6

Michael Wood

Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life by Mildred Constantine. Bloomsbury, 199 pp., £16.99, September 1993, 0 7475 1622 7
Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary by Margaret Hooks. Pandora, 277 pp., £25, September 1993, 9780044408796

Christopher Hitchens

In the Heat of the Struggle: Twenty-Five Years of ‘Socialist Worker’ by Paul Foot. Bookmarks, 288 pp., £12.50, November 1993, 0 906224 94 2
Why You Should Join the Socialists by Paul Foot. Bookmarks, 70 pp., £1.90, November 1993, 0 906224 80 2

Allen Curnow

Poem: ‘Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water’

Malcolm Bull

The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle. Granta, 476 pp., £14.99, October 1993, 9780140142419
The Collected Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle. Granta, 621 pp., £9.99, October 1993, 9780140140767

Terry Eagleton

Safe in the Kitchen by Aisling Foster. Hamish Hamilton, 347 pp., £14.99, November 1993, 0 241 13426 9

Colm Tóibín

Diary: In the Pyrenees

Nicholas Spice

Daring to Excel: The Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain by Ruth Railton. Secker, 466 pp., £20, August 1992, 0 436 23359 2

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