Vol. 16 No. 18 · 22 September 1994

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Vol. 16 No. 18 · 22 September 1994

Frank Kermode

History: The Home Movie by Craig Raine. Penguin, 335 pp., £9.99, September 1994, 0 14 024240 6

Letters

Rudolph Peierls, Emile Delavenay, Pierre Joannon, Brian Vickers, Robert Ostermann, Parina Stiakaki, Graham Robb

Jonathan Coe

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey. Faber, 422 pp., £14.99, September 1994, 0 571 17197 4

Jerome McGann

Thomas Chatterton: Early Sources and Responses  Routledge/Thoemmes, £295, July 1993, 0 415 09255 8

John Gray

Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals by Ernest Gellner. Hamish Hamilton, 225 pp., £18.99, August 1994, 0 241 00220 6

Ross McKibbin

The New Industrial Relations? by Neil Millward. Policy Studies Institute, 170 pp., £15, February 1994, 0 85374 590 0

Thomas Nagel

Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics by Joseph Raz. Oxford, 374 pp., £40, June 1994, 0 19 825837 2

Keith Thomas

A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in 17th-Century England by Steven Shapin. Chicago, 483 pp., £23.95, June 1994, 0 226 75018 3

Frank Cioffi

A Pack of Lies: Towards a Sociology of Lying by J.A. Barnes. Cambridge, 200 pp., £35, June 1994, 0 521 45376 3

Linda Colley

Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660-1753 by Lawrence Stone. Oxford, 295 pp., £16.95, September 1992, 0 19 820253 9
Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660-1857 by Lawrence Stone. Oxford, 373 pp., £16.95, June 1993, 0 19 820254 7

Lola Haskins

Two Poems

Elaine Showalter

Telling Women’s Lives: The New Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin. Rutgers, 201 pp., $22.95, July 1994, 0 8135 2092 4

Jenny Diski

R.D. Laing: A Biography by Adrian Laing. Peter Owen, 248 pp., £25, August 1994, 0 7206 0934 8

Alice Friman

Two Poems

Lorna Sage

The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle. Columbia, 322 pp., £20, January 1994, 0 231 07652 5

Lorna Scott Fox

The Still Moment by Paul Binding. Virago, 290 pp., £20, May 1994, 1 85381 441 5

Michael Hofmann

Walking a Line by Tom Paulin. Faber, 105 pp., £5.99, June 1994, 0 571 17081 1

Ronan Bennett

Diary: The IRA Ceasefire

Malcolm Coad

Soldiers in a Narrow Land: The Pinochet Regime in Chile by Mary Helen Spooner. California, 316 pp., £23.50, June 1994, 0 520 08083 1

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