Vol. 17 No. 3 · 9 February 1995

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Vol. 17 No. 3 · 9 February 1995

Alan Bennett

Diary: Madness: The Movie

Letters

Anthony Kenny, Alasdair Palmer, Frances D’Souza, Richard Perceval Graves, Nathan Keyfitz, R.W. Johnson, John Mckean, Charlotte and Ian Townsend-Gault, Kevin Laffan, Terence Hawkes, Charles Gorder

Theodore Draper

Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer. Oxford, 445 pp., £17.99, September 1994, 0 19 508847 6

Michael Wood

The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling by Diana Trilling. Harcourt Brace, 442 pp., $24.95, May 1994, 0 15 111685 7

Patricia Beer

Poem: ‘Small Talk at Wreyland’

Mary Beard

Marginal Comment by Kenneth Dover. Duckworth, 271 pp., £20, November 1994, 0 7156 2630 2

Paul Smith

The Cultivation of Hatred by Peter Gay. HarperCollins, 685 pp., £25, April 1994, 0 00 255218 3

David Blackbourn

Duelling: The Cult of Honour in Fin-de-Siècle Germany by Kevin McAleer. Princeton, 268 pp., £19.95, January 1995, 0 691 03462 1

Jean McNicol

The Report of the Inquiry into the Care and Treatment of Christopher Clunis by Jean Ritchie, Donald Dick and Richard Lingham. HMSO, 146 pp., £9.50, February 1994, 0 11 701798 1
Creating Community Care: Report of the Mental Health Foundation into Community Care for People with Severe Mental Illness by William Utting. Mental Health Foundation, 76 pp., £9.50, September 1994, 0 901944 17 3
Finding a Place: A Review of Mental Health Services for Adults  HMSO, 94 pp., £11, November 1994, 0 11 886143 3
The Falling Shadow: One Patient’s Mental Health Care. Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Events Leading up to and Surrounding the Fatal Incident at the Edith Morgan Centre, Torbay, on 1 September 1993 by Louis Blom-Cooper, Helen Hally and Elaine Murphy. Duckworth, 230 pp., £12.99, January 1995, 0 7156 2662 0

Elizabeth Becker

Cambodia: A Shattered Society by Marie Alexandrine Martin, translated by Mark McLeod. California, 398 pp., $35, July 1994, 0 520 07052 6
Cambodia’s New Deal: A Report by William Shawcross. Carnegie Endowment, 106 pp., £27.50, July 1994, 0 87003 051 5

Brian Rotman

The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi translated by Richard Lynn. Columbia, 602 pp., £15.50, November 1994, 0 231 08294 0

Patrick Parrinder

The Sin of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós, translated by Nan Flanagan. Carcanet, 352 pp., £14.95, August 1994, 1 85754 101 4
The City and the Mountains by Eça de Queirós, translated by Roy Campbell. Carcanet, 217 pp., £14.95, August 1994, 1 85754 102 2

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Film Explainer by Gert Hofmann, translated by Michael Hofmann. Secker, 250 pp., £9.99, January 1995, 0 436 20232 8

Gaby Wood

Jean Renoir: Letters edited by Lorraine LoBianco and David Thompson, translated by Craig Carlson, Natasha Arnoldi and Michael Wells. Faber, 605 pp., £25, October 1994, 0 571 17298 9

Russell Jacoby

Intellectuals in Exile: Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Research by Claus-Dieter Krohn, translated by Rita Kimber and Robert Kimber. Massachusetts, 255 pp., $15.95, July 1994, 0 87023 864 7

Elaine Showalter

Diary: At the Modern Language Association

Jeremy Waldron

The Anatomy of Anti-Liberalism by Stephen Holmes. Harvard, 330 pp., £23.95, November 1993, 0 674 03180 6

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