Vol. 17 No. 5 · 9 March 1995

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Cover Artist

Peter Campbell

Ian Hamilton

Louis MacNeice: A Biography by Jon Stallworthy. Faber, 538 pp., £25, February 1995, 0 571 16019 0

Letters

Peter Campbell, David Lewisohn, Amanda Sebestyen, Tom Lubbock, Jenny Diski, Anthony Buckley, Kenneth Hoyle, Malcolm Quinn, Michael Walker, Peter Faulkner, Brian Donaghey, Harvey Roy Greenberg, T.H. Barrett, J.F. Fuggles, Sylvia Elias

Edmund White

‘Today the artist is a saint who writes his own life’

Adam Phillips

Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond by Nancy Chodorow. Free Association, 132 pp., £8.95, July 1994, 1 85343 380 2

Dinah Birch

An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel. Viking, 250 pp., £15, March 1995, 0 670 85922 2

R.W. Johnson

The State We’re In by Will Hutton. Cape, 352 pp., £16.99, January 1995, 0 224 03688 2

Conor Gearty

The Party in Government

August Kleinzahler

Poem: ‘Uttar Pradesh’

Jean-Pierre Chapelas

Une Jeunesse française: François Mitterrand 1934-1947 by Pierre Péan. Fayard, 615 pp., frs 160, September 1994, 2 213 59300 0

Andrew Motion

Poem: ‘Goethe in the Park’

Misha Glenny

Here We Go Again

Edward Said

Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm. Joseph, 627 pp., £20, October 1994, 0 7181 3307 2

Nicholas Hiley

Renegades: Hitler’s Englishmen by Adrian Weale. Weidenfeld, 230 pp., £18.99, May 1994, 0 297 81488 5
In from the Cold: National Security and Parliamentary Democracy by Laurence Lustgarten and Ian Leigh. Oxford, 554 pp., £22.50, July 1994, 9780198252344

Ian Buruma

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn Nicholas. Macmillan, 498 pp., £20, September 1994, 0 333 62652 4

Christopher Prendergast

Paris Interzone: Richard Wright, Lolita, Boris Vian and Others on the Left Bank 1946-1960 by James Campbell. Secker, 305 pp., £20, September 1994, 0 436 20106 2
Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties by Peter Lennon. Picador, 220 pp., £16.99, April 1994, 0 330 31911 6
The Good Ship Venus: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press by John de St Jorre. Hutchinson, 332 pp., £20, September 1994, 0 09 177874 3

Mark Ford

In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles edited by Jeffrey Miller. HarperCollins, 604 pp., £25, October 1994, 0 00 255535 2

Andrew O’Hagan

Diary: The Hearing of Rosemary West

Robert Tashman

Prêt-à-Porter directed by Robert Altman.

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