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Vol. 16 No. 9 · 12 May 1994
Elaine Showalter
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm. Knopf, 208 pp., $23, April 1994, 0 679 43158 6
Letters
Adrian Bowyer, Ronald Paulson, Keith Flett, Lorna Scott Fox, Hyam Maccoby, Miranda Seymour, Mark Jacobs, Harold Beaver
C.K. Stead
Poem: ‘Sylvia Plath’
Dinah Birch
Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Inter-war Britain by Susan Kingsley Kent. Princeton, 182 pp., £18.95, March 1994, 0 691 03140 1
Jean McNicol
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Alison Owings. Rutgers, 494 pp., £24.95, October 1993, 0 8135 1992 6 Solidarity and Treason: Resistance and Exile, 1933-1940 by Lisa Fittko, translated by Roslyn Theobald. Northwestern, 160 pp., £29.95, December 1993, 0 8101 1129 2
Bernard Williams
Only Words by Catharine MacKinnon. HarperCollins, 128 pp., £9.99, June 1994, 0 00 255497 6
Jeremy Waldron
Life’s Dominion: An Argument about Abortion and Euthanasia by Ronald Dworkin. HarperCollins, 273 pp., £17.50, May 1993, 0 394 58941 6
Paul Churchland
The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle. MIT, 270 pp., £19.95, August 1992, 0 262 19321 3
John Leslie
The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory by David Bohm, translated by Basil Hiley. Routledge, 397 pp., £25, October 1993, 0 415 06588 7 Black Holes and Baby Universes, and Other Essays by Stephen Hawking. Bantam, 182 pp., £16.99, October 1993, 0 593 03400 7
Terry Eagleton
The Frankfurt School by Rolf Wiggershaus, translated by Michael Robertson. Polity, 787 pp., £45, January 1994, 0 7456 0534 6
Arthur C. Danto
Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction by John Gage. Thames and Hudson, 335 pp., £38, October 1993, 0 500 23654 2
Michael Wood
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis. Viking, 529 pp., £16, June 1994, 0 670 85553 7
Jonathan Coe
Betrayals by Charles Palliser. Cape, 308 pp., £14.99, March 1994, 0 224 02919 3
Frank Kuppner
Poem: ‘Not’
John Sutherland
John Steinbeck: A Biography by Jay Parini. Heinemann, 605 pp., £20, March 1994, 0 434 57492 9
Mark Ford
The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones. Faber, 230 pp., £14.99, March 1994, 0 571 17134 6 The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, translated by Frank Palmos. Secker, 217 pp., £8.99, January 1994, 0 436 31042 2 A Good Scent from Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler. Minerva, 249 pp., £5.99, November 1993, 0 7493 9767 5 Out of the Sixties: Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation by David Wyatt. Cambridge, 230 pp., £35, February 1994, 9780521441513
Michael Rogin
Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War by John MacArthur. California, 274 pp., £10, January 1994, 0 520 08398 9 Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad – 35 Years in the World’s War Zones by Peter Arnett. Bloomsbury, 463 pp., £17.99, March 1994, 0 7475 1680 4
Julian Loose
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg, translated by F. David. Harvill, 412 pp., £9.99, September 1993, 0 00 271334 9
Brad Leithauser
The Plum in the Golden Vase or Chin P’ing Mei. Vol I: The Gathering translated by David Tod Roy. Princeton, 610 pp., £24.95, December 1993, 0 691 06932 8
Leslie Wilson
Diary: On Chinese Magic
John Lennard
Pictures of Perfection by Reginald Hill. HarperCollins, 303 pp., £14.99, March 1994, 0 00 232392 3
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