What do you think of the LRB? Share your thoughts in our 7-minute survey

Vol. 16 No. 5 · 10 March 1994

Browse other issues from this year

Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Browse other issues from this year

Vol. 16 No. 5 · 10 March 1994

Anne Hollander

Life into Art: Isadora Duncan and Her World edited by Dorée Duncan, Carol Pratl and Cynthia Splatt

Letters

Robert Nozick, W.G. Runciman, Brian Stone, Freddy Hurdis-Jones, Keith Flett

Carol Gilligan

Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body by Susan Bordo
History After Lacan by Teresa Brennan

Jenny Turner

In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding by Deborah Baker

David Sylvester

Something to look at

T.H. Barrett

Central Asia in World History by S.A.M. Adshead
Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History by Stefan Tanaka

Peter Redgrove

Poem: ‘From: The Advice of Proteus Orpheus Dies, and the God Seeks Out Silenus’

Malcolm Bull

Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn

John Lloyd

Scargill: The Unauthorised Biography by Paul Routledge

Adam Lively

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy
Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Culture by Paul Gilroy

John Bayley

The Complete Short Stories of Jack London edited by Elrae Labour, Robert Litz and I. Milo Shepard

Chauncey Loomis

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean

Michael Wood

Short Cuts directed by Robert Altman
Short Cuts: The Screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt
Short Cuts by Raymond Carver, introduced by Robert Altman

Mark Ford

Selected Poems by Charles Olson, edited by Robert Creeley
Selected Poems by Robert Duncan, edited by Robert Bertholf

Elaine Showalter

Diary: On the Phi Beta Kappa Tour

Eugen Weber

Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanisation by Richard Kuisel

Download the LRB app

Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple devices, Google Play for Android devices and Amazon for your Kindle Fire.

Sign up to our newsletter

For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions.

Newsletter Preferences