Vol. 16 No. 16 · 18 August 1994

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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

Alan Dixon

Poem: ‘New Bike’

Barbara Johnson

Mallarmé: A Throw of the Dice by Gordon Millan

P.N. Furbank

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Vol. I: 1854-April 1874 edited by Bradford Booth and Ernest Mehew
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Vol. II: April 1874-July 1879 edited by Bradford Booth and Ernest Mehew

John Sutherland

Stained Radiance: A Fictionist’s Prelude by J. Leslie Mitchell
The Speak of the Mearns by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

A.D. Nuttall

Essays, Mainly Shakespearean by Anne Barton
English Comedy edited by Michael Cordner, Peter Holland and John Kerrigan

Margaret Anne Doody

Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time by Marina Warner

James Buchan

Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism and Non-Violence by Petra Kelly

Richard Clogg

Greek-Bashing

Malise Ruthven

The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World by Gilles Kepel
Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran by Martin Riesebrodt

Avi Shlaim

Israel’s Border Wars, 1949-56: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation and the Countdown to the Suez War by Benny Morris

Alistair Elliot

Poem: ‘Watches’

Patrick Parrinder

Constructions of ‘the Jew’ in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945 by Bryan Cheyette
The Jewish Heritage in British History: Englishness and Jewishness edited by Tony Kushner

Philip Purser

The Fortunes of Casanova, and Other Stories by Rafael Sabatini, selected by Jack Adrian

Mike Marqusee

Diary: The Ancient Argument between Bat and Ball

Jenny Diski

Homage to Barbara Cartland

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