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Vol. 17 No. 2 · 26 January 1995
Ian Hacking
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray. Free Press, 845 pp., £25, November 1994, 0 02 914673 9
Letters
Kader Asmal, Christopher Price, Anthony Bilmes, Chris Harman, Gordon Guthrie, Anthony Mosawi, Stanley Clingman
Ross McKibbin
Social Justice: Strategies for National Renewal. The Report of the Commission on Social Justice Vintage, 418 pp., £6.99, October 1994, 9780099511410
Reg Gadney
The Escape from Whitemoor Prison on Friday, 9 September 1994: The Woodcock Enquiry by John Woodcock. HMSO, 144 pp., £16.50, December 1994, 0 10 127412 2
Jenny Diski
A Mind of My Own: My Life with Robert Maxwell by Elizabeth Maxwell. Sidgwick, 536 pp., £16.99, November 1994, 0 283 06251 7
Lachlan Mackinnon
Poem: ‘Ovid: Apollo and Daphne’
Zoë Heller
Kenneth Tynan: Letters edited by Kathleen Tynan. Weidenfeld, 669 pp., £22, November 1994, 0 297 81076 6
David Nokes
The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800 edited by Lynn Hunt. Zone, 411 pp., £24.25, August 1993, 9780942299687
P.N. Furbank
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki, translated by Ian MacLean. Viking, 631 pp., £16, January 1995, 0 670 83428 9
Malcolm Bull
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso, translated by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli. Carcanet, 385 pp., £19.95, November 1994, 0 85635 713 8
Michael Wood
Proust and the Sense of Time by Julia Kristeva, translated by Stephen Bann. Faber, 103 pp., £20, July 1993, 0 571 16880 9 Le Temps sensible: Proust et l’expérience littéraire by Julia Kristeva. Gallimard, 451 pp., January 1995, 2 07 073116 2 The Old Man and the Wolves by Julia Kristeva, translated by Barbara Bray. Columbia, 183 pp., £15, January 1995, 0 231 08020 4
Ruth Padel
Two Poems
Ian Hamilton
An Unmentionable Man by Edward Upward. Enitharmon, 102 pp., £5.99, October 1994, 1 870612 64 7 Journey to the Border by Edward Upward. Enitharmon, 135 pp., £5.99, October 1994, 1 870612 59 0 The Mortmere Stories by Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward. Enitharmon, 206 pp., £7.99, October 1994, 1 870612 69 8
C.K. Stead
Ezra Pound and James Laughlin: Selected Letters edited by David Gordon. Norton, 313 pp., £23, June 1994, 0 393 03540 9 ‘Agenda’: An Anthology. The First Four Decades edited by William Cookson. Carcanet, 418 pp., £25, May 1994, 1 85754 069 7
Christopher Harvie
Diary: Cars and Cuckoo Clocks
Terence Hawkes
Dancing to a Black Man’s Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin by Susan Curtis. Missouri, 265 pp., £26.95, July 1994, 0 8262 0949 1 King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era by Edward Berlin. Oxford, 334 pp., £19.99, September 1994, 0 19 508739 9
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