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Vol. 16 No. 20 · 20 October 1994
Frank Kermode
My Mad Captains
Letters
Anne Stevenson, Andrew James, Brian Lynch, Nicolas Walter, John O’Callaghan, William Scammell, M.J. McGann, Dennis Wrong, Terry Castle, Audrey Allan, Gerald Long, H. Harvey Wood, Christopher Hill, Stuart Silverman, John Lanchester
Ross McKibbin
The Major Effect edited by Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh. Macmillan, 500 pp., £20, September 1994, 0 333 62273 1
Ian Hamilton
Major Major: Memories of an Older Brother by Terry Major-Ball. Duckworth, 167 pp., £12.95, August 1994, 0 7156 2631 0
Christopher Hitchens
AGuide to the Correction of Young Gentlemen or, The Successful Administration of Physical Discipline to Males, by Females by a Lady, with illustrations by a Former Pupil. Delectus, 140 pp., £19.95, August 1994, 1 897767 05 6
Allen Curnow
Poem: ‘The Game of Tag’
Richard Rorty
Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future by Richard Bernstein. Knopf, 367 pp., $25, September 1994, 0 679 41156 9
R.W. Johnson
Enrichissez-Vous!
Edward Said
Who is worse?
Hilary Mantel
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Demos. Knopf, 325 pp., $25, July 1994, 0 394 55782 4
Michael Wood
Closing Time by Joseph Heller. Simon and Schuster, 464 pp., £14.99, October 1994, 0 671 71907 6
John Bayley
Evelyn Waugh by Selina Hastings. Sinclair-Stevenson, 600 pp., £20, October 1994, 1 85619 223 7
Bernard Williams
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics by Martha Nussbaum. Princeton, 558 pp., £22.50, June 1994, 0 691 03342 0
Stephen Sedley
Medical Negligence edited by Michael Powers and Nigel Harris. Butterworth, 1188 pp., £155, July 1994, 0 406 00452 8
David Sylvester
David Sylvester wrote this preface to the catalogue of the Richard Long exhibition at the São Paolo Bienal: Richard Long asked that it be left out
Stephen Greenblatt
Essays on Renaissance Literature. Vol. II by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden. Cambridge, 292 pp., £35, May 1994, 0 521 44044 0
Marilyn Butler
Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. VII edited by Byron. Oxford, 445 pp., £52.50, March 1993, 0 19 812328 0 The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse edited by Jerome McGann. Oxford, 832 pp., £25, April 1993, 0 19 214158 9
David Cannadine
Mrs Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire Tomalin. Viking, 415 pp., £18, October 1994, 0 670 84159 5
Elaine Showalter
No Man’s Land. Vol. III: Letters from the Front by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Yale, 476 pp., £25, October 1994, 0 300 05631 1
Michael Hofmann
Poem: ‘Scylla’
Dinah Birch
The Servant’s Hand: English Fiction from Below by Bruce Robbins. Duke, 261 pp., £13.95, June 1993, 0 8223 1397 9
Michael Hofmann
The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht by John Fuegi. HarperCollins, 732 pp., £25, July 1994, 0 00 255386 4
Iain Sinclair
Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play by Ben Watson. Quartet, 597 pp., £25, May 1994, 0 7043 7066 2 Her Weasels Wild Returning by J.H. Prynne. Equipage, 12 pp., £2, May 1994
Dave Haslam
The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music 1972-93 by Nick Kent. Penguin, 338 pp., £9.99, May 1994, 0 14 023046 7
Alan Bennett
Diary: Fresh Revelations
Jenny Diski
Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey. Century, 468 pp., £17.99, September 1994, 0 7126 6012 7 Greta & Cecil by Diana Souhami. Cape, 272 pp., £18.99, September 1994, 0 224 03719 6
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