Vol. 16 No. 11 · 9 June 1994

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Colm Tóibín

How many nipples had Graham Greene?

Letters

Paul Tvrtkovic, Nicolas Walter, P. Nelson-Saginor, Douglas Braaten, William Dowling, Keith Flett

Nicholson Baker

The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst. Chatto, 422 pp., £15.99, May 1994, 0 7011 5913 8

John Sutherland

The English Poetry Full-Text Database editorial board: John Barnard, Derek Brewer, Lou Burnand, Howard Erskine-Hill and Danny Karlin et al. Chadwyck-Healey, £30,000, June 1994

Scott Malcomson

There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing Too by Stanley Fish. Oxford, 332 pp., £16.95, February 1994, 0 19 508018 1

Ross McKibbin

After Smith

David Armitage

The Language of Liberty, 1660-1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World by J.C.D. Clark. Cambridge, 404 pp., £35, October 1993, 0 521 44510 8
The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification. Vol. I edited by Bernard Bailyn. Library of America, 1214 pp., $35, July 1993, 0 940450 42 9

Patricia Beer

Aristocrats by Stella Tillyard. Chatto, 462 pp., £20, April 1994, 0 7011 5933 2

Brad Leithauser

Poem: ‘Later’

Jonathan Parry

Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain by David Cannadine. Yale, 321 pp., £19.50, April 1994, 0 300 05981 7

Gabriele Annan

The Queen by Kenneth Harris. Weidenfeld, 341 pp., £20, April 1994, 0 297 81211 4
Divine Right: The Inglorious Survival of British Royalty by Richard Tomlinson. Little, Brown, 357 pp., £17.50, June 1994, 0 316 91119 4

E.S. Turner

Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn by Joan Hardwick. Deutsch, 306 pp., £20, June 1994, 0 233 98866 1
Mother of Oscar: The Life of Jane Francesca Wilde by Joy Melville. Murray, 308 pp., £19.99, June 1994, 0 7195 5102 1

Michael Mason

Robert Surtees and Early Victorian Society by Norman Gash. Oxford, 407 pp., £40, September 1993, 0 19 820429 9

Peter Campbell

Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernity by Jerome McGann. Princeton, 196 pp., £25, July 1993, 0 691 06985 9
Letters from the People by Lee Friedlander. Cape, 96 pp., £75, August 1993, 9780224032957
Margins and Marginality by Evelyn Tribble. Virginia, 194 pp., $35, December 1993, 0 8139 1472 8

Margaret Anne Doody

The 18th-Century Hymn in England by Donald Davie. Cambridge, 167 pp., £27.95, October 1993, 0 521 38168 1

John Foot

Antonio Gramsci: Letters from Prison edited by Frank Rosengarten, translated by Raymond Rosenthal. Columbia, 374 pp., £27.50, March 1994, 0 231 07558 8
Antonio Gramsci: Pre-Prison Writings edited by Richard Bellamy, translated by Virginia Cox. Cambridge, 350 pp., £40, January 1994, 0 521 41143 2

Avi Shlaim

Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of ‘Transfer’ in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 by Nur Masalha. Tauris/IPS, 235 pp., £19.95, May 1994, 0 88728 235 0
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 by Ilan Pappé. Tauris, 324 pp., £39.50, June 1992, 1 85043 357 7

Ian Buruma

Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45, and the American Cover-Up by Sheldon Harris. Routledge, 297 pp., £25, December 1993, 0 415 09105 5

Geoffrey Hawthorn

Diary: Tribute to Ayrton Senna

Stephen Smith

On the Rwandan Border

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