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Vol. 16 No. 13 · 7 July 1994
Edward Said
The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972 by Edmund Wilson, edited by Lewis Dabney. Farrar, Straus, 968 pp., $35, July 1993, 0 374 26554 2
Letters
Gerry Dukes, James MacGibbon, Mark Prosser, Russell Marshall, John Philip, Noel Malcolm, Terence Hegarty, Elizabeth Greene, Edward Wilson, Keith Flett
Michael Hofmann
Walking Possession: Essays and Reviews 1968-1993 by Ian Hamilton. Bloomsbury, 302 pp., £20, May 1994, 0 7475 1712 6 Gazza Italia by Ian Hamilton. Granta, 188 pp., £5.99, May 1994, 0 14 014073 5
Michael Wood
The Cryptogram by David Mamet. The Ambassador's TheatreA Whore’s Profession: Notes and Essays by David Mamet. Faber, 412 pp., £12.99, June 1994, 0 571 17076 5
Terry Eagleton
The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Vol. III: 1901-1904 edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard. Oxford, 781 pp., £35, May 1994, 0 19 812683 2 Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders by Vivian Mercier. Oxford, 381 pp., £30, April 1994, 0 19 812074 5
James Wood
Art & Lies by Jeanette Winterson. Cape, 224 pp., £14.99, June 1994, 0 224 03145 7
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life by Lyndall Gordon. Chatto, 418 pp., £17.99, March 1994, 9780701161378 Shared Lives by Lyndall Gordon. Vintage, 285 pp., £6.99, March 1994, 0 09 942461 4 The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill by Miriam Bailin. Cambridge, 169 pp., £30, April 1994, 0 521 44526 4
Allen Curnow
Poem: ‘A South Island Night’s Entertainment’
Fredric Jameson
Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 by Tony Judt. California, 348 pp., £11.95, February 1994, 0 520 08650 3 Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Post-War France by Sunil Khilnani. Yale, 264 pp., £19.95, December 1993, 0 300 05745 8
John Sturrock
Balzac by Graham Robb. Picador, 521 pp., £20, June 1994, 0 330 33237 6 Honoré de Balzac by Roger Pierrot. Fayard, 582 pp., frs 180, March 1994, 2 213 59228 4 César Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac and Robin Buss. Penguin, 279 pp., £6.99, January 1994, 0 14 044641 9
David Solkin
Nineteenth-Century Art: A Critical History by Stephen Eisenman, Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin and Frances Pohl. Thames and Hudson, 376 pp., £35, March 1994, 0 500 23675 5
John Lloyd
The View from the Kremlin by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Catharine Fitzpatrick. HarperCollins, 316 pp., £18, May 1994, 0 00 255544 1
Stuart Sutherland
Listening to Prozac by Peter Kramer. Fourth Estate, 409 pp., £16.99, April 1994, 1 85702 233 5
Tom Jaine
The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society by Richard Rudgley. British Museum, 160 pp., £14.95, October 1993, 0 7141 1736 6
Robert Irwin
Diary: Pinball and Despair
Steven Rose
The Astounding Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick. Simon and Schuster, 317 pp., £16.99, May 1994, 9780671711580
Anne Stevenson
Poem: ‘Alas’
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