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Vol. 16 No. 22 · 24 November 1994
Perry Anderson
The Dark Side of Brazilian Conviviality
Letters
K. Sinclair-Loutit, J.A.G. Griffith, Lawrence Beyer, Hope Robinson, James MacGibbon, Gerald Pollinger, Joshua Landy, Robert Cunliffe, Bernard Cashman, Wendy Doniger, Larry Rhodes
Sophia de Mello Breyner, translated by Ruth Fainlight
Poem: ‘Writing’
Alan Ryan
The Principle of Duty by David Selbourne. Sinclair-Stevenson, 288 pp., £17.99, June 1994, 1 85619 474 4
Lawrence Stone
The Making of Victorian Sexuality by Michael Mason. Oxford, 338 pp., £17.95, April 1994, 0 19 812247 0 The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes by Michael Mason. Oxford, 256 pp., £17.99, October 1994, 0 19 812292 6
James Davidson
The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Moment by Alan Sinfield. Cassell, 216 pp., £10.99, July 1994, 0 304 32905 3 Cultural Politics: Queer Reading by Alan Sinfield. Routledge, 105 pp., £25, November 1994, 0 415 10948 5 Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford by Linda Dowling. Cornell, 173 pp., £21.50, June 1994, 0 8014 2960 9
Charles Simic
Four Poems
P.N. Furbank
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler. Heinemann, 338 pp., £20, October 1994, 0 434 20166 9 James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth by Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval. Murray, 544 pp., £25, October 1994, 0 7195 5027 0
E.S. Turner
A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908-1918 by Robert Wohl. Yale, 320 pp., £25, October 1994, 0 300 05778 4
Hugo Young
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Tóibín. Cape, 296 pp., £16.99, October 1994, 0 224 03767 6
David Blackbourn
Prussia: The Perversion of an Idea by Giles MacDonogh. Sinclair-Stevenson, 456 pp., £20, July 1994, 1 85619 267 9
Gabriele Annan
Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz by Irene Dische. Bloomsbury, 147 pp., £14.99, October 1994, 0 7475 0835 6
Stephen Smith
Diary: Stephen Smith goes to Cuba and tries to get his books out of the library
Lorna Scott Fox
Mea Cuba by G. Cabrera Infante, translated by Kenneth Hall. Faber, 497 pp., £17.50, October 1994, 0 571 17255 5 Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Dolores Koch. Viking, 317 pp., £16, July 1994, 0 670 84078 5
Ian Hamilton
Venables: The Autobiography by Terry Venables and Neil Hanson. Joseph, 468 pp., £16.99, September 1994, 0 7181 3827 9
Conor Gearty
Diary: Various Forms of Sleaze
Eric Hobsbawm
The Duke Ellington Reader edited by Mark Tucker. Oxford, 536 pp., £19.95, February 1994, 0 19 505410 5 Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America by David Stowe. Harvard, 299 pp., £19.95, October 1994, 0 674 85825 5
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