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Vol. 16 No. 12 · 23 June 1994
Richard Wollheim
Fifty Years On
Letters
Noble Frankland, J.M.C. Burton, Donald Davie, B.J. Whelan, Bruce King, Anne Ashworth, Martin Seymour-Smith, Liam Mac Cóil, Mark Hannam
Christopher Hitchens
A Rebel in Defence of Tradition: The Life and ‘Politics’ of Dwight Macdonald by Michael Wreszin. Basic Books, 590 pp., £17.99, April 1994, 0 465 01739 8
Alistair Elliot
Poem: ‘Facing South’
Anna Husarska
Crimean Wars
Daniel Dennett
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker. Allen Lane, 493 pp., £20, April 1994, 0 7139 9099 6 Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature by Ray Jackendoff. Harvester, 256 pp., £11.95, October 1993, 9780745009629
Peter Clarke
Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931-83 by Richard Cockett. HarperCollins, 390 pp., £25, May 1994, 0 00 223672 9
Jonathan Parry
Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics by Peter Marsh. Yale, 725 pp., £30, May 1994, 0 300 05801 2
Jeremy Harding
The Search for Africa: A History in the Making by Basil Davidson. Currey, 373 pp., £25, March 1994, 0 85255 719 1
Douglas Oliver
Poem: ‘A Salvo for Malawi’
John Bayley
Richard Hughes by Richard Perceval Graves. Deutsch, 491 pp., £20, May 1994, 0 233 98843 2
Iain Sinclair
Who is Stewart Home?
Mary Hawthorne
The Seduction of Morality by Tom Murphy. Little, Brown, 224 pp., £15.99, June 1994, 0 316 91059 7 A Goat’s Song by Dermot Healy. Harvill, 408 pp., £14.99, April 1994, 0 00 271049 8
Fintan O’Toole
Sean O’Faolain: A Life by Maurice Harmon. Constable, 326 pp., £16.95, May 1994, 0 09 470140 7 Vive Moi! An Autobiography by Sean O’Faolain. Sinclair-Stevenson, 377 pp., £20, November 1993, 1 85619 376 4
Jenny Diski
Diary: A Plot in Highgate Cemetery
Julia O’Faolain
Interview with Myself
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