Vol. 16 No. 17 · 8 September 1994

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Vol. 16 No. 17 · 8 September 1994

James Miller

A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises by Stanley Cavell. Harvard, 196 pp., £20.75, July 1994, 0 674 66980 0

Letters

Robert Giroux, Christopher Hitchens, R.W. Johnson, Terry Kelly, Mary-Kay Wilmers, David Wootton, J.M.C. Burton, Bernard Bergonzi, Bernard McCabe, Freddy Hurdis-Jones, Christopher Howse, C.J. Burrow, Keith Flett

John Sturrock

Le Premier homme by Albert Camus. Gallimard, 331 pp., frs 110, April 1994, 2 07 073827 2

Tom Nairn

The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 by Edward Said. Chatto, 400 pp., £20, July 1994, 0 7011 6135 3
Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward Said. Vintage, 90 pp., £4.99, July 1994, 0 09 942451 7

Michael Howard

The Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma. Cape, 330 pp., £17.99, June 1994, 0 224 03138 4

Adam Thorpe

Poem: ‘Twitchers’

Peter Wollen

Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in Europe 1900-1916 by Christopher Butler. Oxford, 318 pp., £27.50, April 1994, 0 19 811746 9

Ian Hamilton

Juvenilia: Poems 1922-28 by W.H. Auden, edited by Katherine Bucknell. Faber, 263 pp., £25, July 1994, 0 571 17140 0

Clarence Brown

Marina Tsvetaeva: Poetics of Appropriation by Michael Makin. Oxford, 355 pp., £40, January 1994, 0 19 815164 0
Tsvetaeva by Viktoria Schweitzer, translated by Robert Chandler, H.T. Willetts and Peter Norman. Harvill, 400 pp., £20, December 1993, 0 00 272053 1

Paul Driver

The Bartók Companion edited by Malcolm Gillies. Faber, 586 pp., £35, February 1994, 0 571 15330 5

Walter Benjamin, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman

Stamp Scams

Jonathan Coe

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers by Roger Lewis. Century, 817 pp., £20, April 1994, 0 7126 3801 6

Elaine Showalter

Hardy by Martin Seymour-Smith. Bloomsbury, 886 pp., £25, February 1994, 0 7475 1037 7

Rosemary Hill

Pugin: A Gothic Passion edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright. Yale, 310 pp., £45, June 1994, 0 300 06014 9

Carolyne Wright

Diary: Taslima Nasreen gets them going

Taslima Nasreen

Poem: ‘Divorce Letter’

Stefan Collini

Townscape with Figures: Farnham, Portrait of an English Town by Richard Hoggart. Chatto, 205 pp., £16.99, June 1994, 0 7011 6138 8

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