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Vol. 16 No. 16 · 18 August 1994
Erskine Childers
Old-Boying
Letters
Charles Thomas, Lawrence Hogben, Donald Davie, Gerald Long, Robert Kaplan, Steven Rose, Clayton Naff
Basil Davidson
On Rwanda
Thomas Laqueur
How We Die by Sherwin Nuland. Chatto, 278 pp., £15.99, May 1994, 0 7011 6169 8
Alan Dixon
Poem: ‘New Bike’
Barbara Johnson
Mallarmé: A Throw of the Dice by Gordon Millan. Secker, 389 pp., £16.99, March 1994, 9780436270963
P.N. Furbank
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Vol. I: 1854-April 1874 edited by Bradford Booth and Ernest Mehew. Yale, 525 pp., £29.95, July 1994, 0 300 05183 2 The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Vol. II: April 1874-July 1879 edited by Bradford Booth and Ernest Mehew. Yale, 352 pp., £29.95, July 1994, 0 300 06021 1
John Sutherland
Stained Radiance: A Fictionist’s Prelude by J. Leslie Mitchell. Polygon, 219 pp., £7.95, July 1993, 0 7486 6141 7 The Speak of the Mearns by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Polygon, 268 pp., £8.95, June 1994, 0 7486 6167 0
A.D. Nuttall
Essays, Mainly Shakespearean by Anne Barton. Cambridge, 386 pp., £40, March 1994, 0 521 40444 4 English Comedy edited by Michael Cordner, Peter Holland and John Kerrigan. Cambridge, 323 pp., £35, March 1994, 0 521 41917 4
Margaret Anne Doody
Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time by Marina Warner. Vintage, 104 pp., £4.99, April 1994, 0 09 943361 3
James Buchan
Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism and Non-Violence by Petra Kelly. Parallax, 168 pp., £15, April 1994, 0 938077 62 7
Richard Clogg
Greek-Bashing
Malise Ruthven
The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World by Gilles Kepel. Polity, 200 pp., £39.50, December 1993, 0 7456 0999 6 Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran by Martin Riesebrodt. California, 272 pp., £30, September 1993, 0 520 07463 7
Avi Shlaim
Israel’s Border Wars, 1949-56: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation and the Countdown to the Suez War by Benny Morris. Oxford, 451 pp., £40, September 1993, 0 19 827850 0
Alistair Elliot
Poem: ‘Watches’
Patrick Parrinder
Constructions of ‘the Jew’ in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945 by Bryan Cheyette. Cambridge, 301 pp., £35, November 1993, 0 521 44355 5 The Jewish Heritage in British History: Englishness and Jewishness edited by Tony Kushner. Cass, 234 pp., £25, January 1992, 0 7146 3464 6
Philip Purser
The Fortunes of Casanova, and Other Stories by Rafael Sabatini, selected by Jack Adrian. Oxford, 284 pp., £15.95, January 1994, 9780192123190
Mike Marqusee
Diary: The Ancient Argument between Bat and Ball
Jenny Diski
Homage to Barbara Cartland
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